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Industry Lawsuit Threatens Our Health: posted by Adrian Martinez, 1/9/09; On Wednesday, the NRDC filed a motion asking the federal appeals court in D.C. to allow it to partic...
Toward a Green Economy: posted by Lily Oster, 1/9/09; NRDC experts were featured twice today on CNBC... On "Squawk Box," Nancy Stoner explains that revita...
A Tale of Two Peripheral Canals. Or is it Three?: posted by Barry Nelson, 1/8/09; On Tuesday, the Sacramento Bee reported that The Nature Conservancy has conditionally endorsed a Per...
What the Stimulus Package may have in common with Detroit: posted by Deron Lovaas, 1/8/09; My friend Barbara McCann, communications consultant and coordinator of the "Complete Streets" campai...
"License to Kill" Southern California's Waterways: posted by David Beckman, 1/8/09; My colleagues at Heal the Bay in Los Angeles have just released a terrific report on a key water qua...
Transit in New York: Green and Getting Greener: posted by Deron Lovaas, 1/8/09; The Metropolitan Transportation Authority for New York State just unveiled a remarkable report, Gree...
Household Trash Is Managed Better than the TVA’s Coal Ash: posted by Frances Beinecke, 1/8/09; Americans have been assaulted on the airwaves with ads about so-called "clean coal." What happened i...
Sen. Boxer Jabs TVA Over Coal Ash Spill: posted by Rob Perks, 1/8/09; I just returned from a Congressional hearing convened by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to address the bi...
Apologies for the light posting . . .: posted by Kaid Benfield, 1/8/09;   To my readers:  First, Happy New Year, if I haven't said so before.  It does indeed...
Tom Friedman Has a Way with Words: posted by Dan Lashof, 1/8/09; The Senate Environment Committee got the 111th Congress off to a great start yesterday with a briefi...

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How to Recycle Your Rabbit Ears When TV Goes Digital: posted by Ben Carmichael, 1/8/09; (Photo courtesy of Roo Reynolds @ flickr. Used under a Creative Commons lisence.)Today, six weeks b...
Senate Hearing Today on Tennessee Sludge Spill: posted by Ben Jervey, 1/8/09; Big day of reckoning for TVA in the wake of the coal ash sludge disaster that we've been following c...
Efficiency Shines in New Green Stimulus Proposal: posted by Chris Cheatham, 1/8/09; On Monday, we highlighted some green building strategies that might be incorporated in the Obama Adm...
Level Heads in the Face of Dirty Disaster: posted by White Creek, 1/7/09; Headlines that start with hyperbole (Radioactive![Not] Much Worse than Thought![Not]) are as mislead...
Full Video of the Aftermath of the Tennessee Coal Ash Spill: posted by Ben Jervey, 1/6/09; Two days after Christmas, an intrepid trio over community activists paddled up the Clinch and Emory ...

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