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Gov. Brown will mean business on his weeklong trip to China
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown is stepping back onto the world stage. After two years largely spent cloistered in California tending to the fiscal crisis, he starts a weeklong visit to China on Tuesday in a bid to reclaim the state's reputation...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Travel, Politics, Regional Authority, Government
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Don't just talk about the weather
Last December, an American milestone passed virtually unnoticed. Forty years earlier, Harrison Schmitt became the 12th and last person to walk on the moon. Mr. Schmitt and the 11 men who preceded him — beginning with Neil Armstrong in 1969 —...Tags: Global Change, Technology, Engineering, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress
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Letters: Keystone XL's purpose
Re "A pipeline to disaster," Opinion, April 4 Climate scientist James Hansen is right to push for reducing our carbon dioxide emissions to minimize global warming, but he has no sense of using the political art of compromise to achieve our goals. As...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Nobel Prize Awards, Keystone XL Pipeline, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Environmental Issues
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New study finds global warming is not hurting plant growth
A study by the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change - The State of Earth's Terrestrial Biosphere: How is it Responding to Rising Atmospheric CO2 and Warmer Temperatures? - refutes claims by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel...Tags: Productivity, United Nations, Ecosystems, Global Change, Weather
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Climate change could hike pollen counts, allergy rates
An unusually cool March has kept seasonal allergy sufferers in Hampton Roads indoors, out of the line of fire of springtime pollen — and breathing easier because of it. But the word from climate scientists and allergists is to enjoy it while it...
Tags: Allergies, Ecosystems, Global Change, Gloucester Point, Science and Technology
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NFU urges Congress to include ag in climate change solution
WASHINGTON - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson submitted comments on Feb. 20 to the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change, addressing how the federal government can effectively address climate change. “The past year has seen...Tags: Politics, Ecosystems, National Government, Global Change, Sheldon Whitehouse
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Condo forum ranges from budgets to weather
Community association residents and boards have a lot on their minds these days. They have questions about borrowing money, global warming, meeting minutes and more. A panel of industry pros addressed these concerns at a recent homeowner forum sponsored...
Tags: Global Change, Environmental Issues
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Vegan trying to stay on track 'meats' temptation
Contributing WriterI’m not teasin’; I’m a vegan (Kinda, sorta…sometimes). “You’ve got to be kidding me.” That was my wife’s response when I told her I was going on a vegan diet plan, which is a vegetarian diet that...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Vegan Diet, Foods and Beverages, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Diets and Dieting
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Letters: Worry vs. action on global warming
Re "Most in U.S. worried about sea level rise," March 30 Building sea walls and other measures to protect coastal developments address the symptoms of climate change, not the cause. We need to support legislation to counteract global warming, such as...Tags: Dana Rohrabacher, Ecosystems, Global Change, Weather, Conservation
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Winter storm dumps snow from Oklahoma to Great Lakes
Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For the second time in a week, a major winter storm paralyzed parts of the nation’s midsection Tuesday, dumping a fresh layer of heavy, wet snow atop cities still choked with piles from the previous system and making travel...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Highway Transportation, Walmart, Business, National Weather Service
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Groups seek probe into low-grade crude shipments to L.A. refineries
A coalition of environmental groups says it has discovered that large-scale shipments of low-quality heavy crude oil from Canada's tar sands are being delivered by rail for processing by Southern California refineries. The groups on Tuesday called for...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Air Pollution, Petroleum Industry, Valero Energy Corp., Energy Resources
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As coastal sea levels rise, Congress sticks its head in the sand
Thanks for your article on climate change and rising sea levels ("Survey shows Americans wary of sea level rising," March 29.) Global warming is driving major change in sea levels. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's...Tags: Politics, Ecosystems, Global Change, Weather, U.S. Congress
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