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If you’ve tuned into your local TV weather report lately, there’s a chance you may heard some crazy ideas about climate change. Take San Diego weatherman John Coleman, who said on air:
“It’s amazing to me … how many billions of dollars apparently our governments are going to spend of our tax dollars to combat something that isn’t real … As a scientist, I know that global warming doesn’t really exist at all.”
Sadly, Coleman
is not alone. Nearly half of TV meteorologists doubt
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FOX News has a long, well-documented history of pushing false and misleading information about climate climate, but in recent months the network's anchonors and pundits have taken to claiming that the Keystone XL pipeline would be a huge job creator. But FOX News' job figures rely on industry-funded studies, and at times even grossly exaggerate those estimates. Watch as they struggle to get on the same page regarding which inflated estimate to use:
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Today the Obama administration announced it is rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. LCV President Gene Karpinski issued the following statement in response:
"Today is a great day for putting
the American people before polluter profits. We strongly applaud the Obama
administration for standing up to Big Oil and rejecting the dangerous Keystone
XL tar sands pipeline. The oil industry has spent millions of dollars lobbying
for this pipeline because it would have added to their $100 billion in
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Speaking today to staff at the Environmental Protection Agency, President Obama reiterated that safeguarding our environment is also about strengthening our economy: "I do not buy the notion that we have to make a choice between having clean air and clean water and growing this economy in a robust way. I think that is a false debate."
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Today Interior Secretary Ken Salazar finalized a 20-year ban on new mining claims on public lands near the Grand Canyon. Extending the current moratorium on new uranium mining claims will protect tourism related jobs, drinking water for millions downstream and critical wildlife habitats.
We strongly applaud the Obama administration’s decision to
protect one million acres around the iconic Grand Canyon from dirty and
dangerous uranium mining. This is a huge
win for conservation and the countless Americans who enjoy
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Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis, the NFL's 6th leading all-time rusher, is one of 26 million Americans with asthma -- and now he's teaming up with the EPA to support the agency's new standards limiting mercury and other toxic air pollution.
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The New York Times runs a great editorial today on yesterday's historic annoucement on the first-ever national standards for mercury and other toxic air pollution.
Resisting strenuous last-minute lobbying by some of the nation’s biggest utilities, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday a final rule requiring power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants by roughly 90 percent within the next five years.
This is a big victory for environmentalists and scientists who have
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Today is a historic day for the health and safety of our children.
The Obama administration has set the first-ever national standards for mercury and other toxic air pollution for power plants. These historic new health standards will save lives, prevent illnesses like asthma and bronchitis, avoid hospitalizations and missed days at work, and create jobs in pollution control technology.
Our children
have waited long enough to breathe clean air without the threat of inhaling
toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants. The
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