By Bill WalkerAlterNet
A few years ago, Cheryl Manning assigned a research project on climate change to her high school environmental science class in Evergreen, Colo. She presented the basic facts and data from peer-reviewed studies, then asked the st…
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Conservatives Use Creationist Playbook to Attack Climate Change Education in School
How to Deny that Fish Need Water
By Kate Poole Natural Resources Defense Council
I recently came across this checklist for global warming deniers on Michael Campana’s post:
Deny global warming.
After global warming is determined to be real, deny that it’s human caused.
After it is …
Investing in Clean Fuels Benefits Everyone
By David PettitNatural Resources Defense Council The process to implement California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard has had an interesting month. In mid-December we achieved a great victory when California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) unanimously…
Methyl Iodide on Trial: Bad for Public Health, Food Security, Worker Safety and the Environment
By Jora TrangWorksafe
Today, a lawsuit filed in December 2010 by Earthjustice and California Rural Legal Assistance – on behalf of several farmworkers and a number of activist groups, including Worksafe, Inc., against the California Department of Pesti…
Huber Reintroduces Bill to Protect Delta From Peripheral Canal
By Dan Bacher
Assemblymember Alyson L. Huber (D-El Dorado Hills) has re-introduced legislation, A.B. 550, that would prohibit the construction of a peripheral canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta without a full fiscal analysis and a vote…
Ticketing Wood-Burning Scofflaws is a Dirty Job, But We All Pay the Price if We Don’t
By Alan Kandel
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) had been airing a public service announcement and mentioned is something to the effect that because of the actions of Valley residents, the winter of 2010/2011 was the clea…
