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| In Utah, a move to seize federal land | | Los Angeles Times | The state House passes a bill allowing the use of eminent domain to take protected land from the federal government. Utah wants to develop a stretch outside Arches National Park and other areas. Read More...
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| New wind farms in the U.S. do not bring jobs | | ABC News | Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C Read More...
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| UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers | | Yahoo News/AP | Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful. Read More...
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| ‘Cap and trade’ folly / Rules may turn recession into depression | | San Diego Union Tribune | With state unemployment at 12.5 percent, you’d think the last thing the California Air Resources Board and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be doing is crowing about new regulations that are certain to kill jobs. But that’s just what happened this week when the air board issued the parameters for its “cap and trade” system under which companies would buy and sell allowances for the emissions that contribute to global warming. Read More...
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| Feds bring charges against SUWA trustee's company | | Salt Lake Tribune | A Swiss billionaire who in July stepped down as the chairman of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance board of directors is directly involved in a federal criminal prosecution in Pennsylvania of a company accused of illegal medical testing that led to three deaths. Read More...
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| Senator says cap-and-tax bill Will "ease" energy costs | | Washington Post | Senate Democrats will initially devote 70 percent of the pollution allowances in their new climate measure to making it easier for people to pay their energy bills, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said in an interview to be aired Sunday on C-SPAN. Read More...
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| Press accuracy rating hits two decade low | | Pew Research Center | The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows. Read More...
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| Obama underwrites offshore drilling in Brazil | | Wall Street Journal | The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Read More...
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| High carbon cost for ‘Clunkers’ program | | New York Times | Whatever its success in getting new cars off the lots and quickly injecting several billion dollars into the economy, some academics say that the “cash for clunkers” program is an expensive way to help the environment. Read More...
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| U.S. renewable energy grant rules exclude private equity | | Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones | A grant program introduced in the federal stimulus package passed earlier this year was intended to jump-start investment in renewable energy, but the rules of the program threaten to hobble it from the start by restricting private equity involvement in any projects the government backs. Read More...
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| GM under fire for palladium position | | Billings Gazette | Tax-dollar-dependent General Motors is trying to cancel its contract with the nation's only platinum and palladium mine, the Stillwater Mine in Montana's Beartooth Mountains, even as it evidently retains contracts with foreign mines. Read More...
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| With something for everyone, climate bill passed | | New York Times | As the most ambitious energy and climate-change legislation ever introduced in Congress made its way to a floor vote last Friday, it grew fat with compromises, carve-outs, concessions and out-and-out gifts intended to win the votes of wavering lawmakers and the support of powerful industries. Read More...
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| Governors may have unknowingly given tax dollars to cap-and-trade project | | Big Sky Business Journal | State taxpayer dollars may have been diverted by the staff of the Western Governors Association (WGA) "against the wishes of many WGA Governors, to help pay for a climate tax scheme written largely by California environmental activists that would dramatically increase families/energy costs, according to the 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU). Read More...
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| A parting controversy for Ambassador Huntsman | | Wall Street Journal Opinion | Jon Huntsman, the Republican governor of Utah and chair of the Western Governors Association, was recently named Ambassador to China by President Obama. But it looks like his final days in office will be marred by a controversy over just whose tax dollars are being spent on a highly controversial "Western Climate Initiative." Read More...
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| House panel OKs massive climate bill | | FOXNews.com | The environment and energy package could prove to be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation ever tackled by Congress. It holds the potential to touch every industry and consumer in the nation. Read More...
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| Climate bill could trigger lawsuit landslide | | Washington Times | Self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who "expect to suffer" from it - from beachfront property owners to asthmatics - for the first time would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions under a little-noticed provision slipped into the House climate bill. Read More...
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| California may ban black cars | | TechCrunch | The California legislature is considering regulating the color of cars and reflectivity of paint to reduce the energy requirements to cool them. The problem isn’t the color per se, but the reflectivity of the paint overall. And dark colors just don’t reflect well, so they are likely out. “Jet black remains an issue,” says the report. Read More...
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| EPA calls CO2 threat to public | | Wall Street Journal | The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a proposal to the White House finding that carbon dioxide is danger to public health, in a step that could trigger the enforcement of stringent emissions rules under the Clean Air Act. Read More...
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| Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land | | Associated Press | California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy. Read More...
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| Obama reverses Bush on species protection measure | | Washington Post | In a move that will subject a number of government projects to enhanced environmental and scientific scrutiny, President Obama is restoring a requirement that U.S. agencies consult with independent federal experts to determine whether their actions might harm threatened and endangered species. Read More...
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| 'Boulder Bunny' latest ESA target | | Reuters | The "Boulder Bunny" is the latest target of the environmental groups in their push to turn the Endangered Species Act into the platform from which they can advance their climate change regulation agenda. Read More...
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| Salazar voids drilling leases on public lands in Utah | | Washington Post | In a clear signal that the Obama administration is shifting the government's approach to energy exploration on public lands, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday canceled oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land after opponents said the drilling would blight Utah's scenic southeastern corner. Read More...
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