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Maryland approves a moratorium on fracking. -

With the new policy that goes into effect in October and lasts two years, the state joins New York in saying no to fracking. Meanwhile in Texas...there is a ban on fracking bansInside Climate News

They are wrangling over language, even to the point of it being commas, sometimes.

Jennifer Morgan, global director of the climate change program at the World Resources Institute, on how the negotiators are currently editing the draft text of the United Nations climate change agreement

I’m flustered looking for words here...to lose 120,000 animals in two or three weeks is a phenomenal thing.

Joel Berger, a senior scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, on the mysterious disease that has killed more than one-third of all saigas, a critically endangered Central Asian antelope 

THINX underwear keeps girls in school and plastic out of landfills. -

The company's absorbent skivvies hold up to two tampons' worth of blood and could reduce the industry's waste problem. And AFRIpads, a group that provides reusable pads to women and girls in developing countries—where many miss class during their "weeks of shame"—gets a donation for each pair sold. Sounds great...let's hope they work! Forbes

The EPA wants to create temporary pesticide-free zones to protect honeybees. -

The pollinators, crucial to food security, have been dying off in droves, with commercial beekeepers losing 42 percent of their colonies last year. The proposed rule would keep bees away from 76 harmful ingredients, including neonicotinoids. Reuters

Wildfires in Alberta are slowing tar sands operations. -

Dozens of blazes have burned since Saturday, with a number still out of control. Crude oil production has eased up by 230,000 barrels per day, around 10 percent of Canada's output. Reuters