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In what's being called "historic news," the EPA has found that climate-warming greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, pose a danger to human health and welfare.  This, essentially, means that greenhouse gasses could be subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act, and "could trigger a broad regulatory process affecting much of the U.S. economy as well as the nation's future environmental trajectory." [Washington Post]

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War of Words for Climate Victims

Migrants or refugees?  What to call the victims of a changing climate that are forced from their land to seek a livelihood elsewhere?  The debate isn't merely academic.  The title they're given "can have real-life implications for national budgets, international law and immigration policies of nations from America to India."  [ClimateWire/New York Times]

Clean Energy Meets Chicago Politics

Chicago, often heralded as one of the country's leading "green" cities, is failing to meet Mayor Daley's 2001 promise to get "20 percent of its electricity from wind farms and other sources of green energy."  Even worse, the carbon offsets that the city has been buying (with taxpayer money) "sent money to a wood-burning power plant that has been operating for nearly two decades," rendering the "rip-offsets" completely ineffective and worthless.  [Chicago Tribune]

Calling 'Em Out

Who are the world's 10 worst greenwashers?   [WebEcoist]

Earth Hour Skeptic

Joel Makower will not be turning his lights out this Saturday for Earth Hour. His reason: "Earth Hour sends the wrong message--that to combat climate change, we'll all have to live in a cold, dark world. Not a very inspiring, empowering message."  [GreenBiz]

Quotatious

"We can remain the world’s leading importer of foreign oil, or we can become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy. We can allow climate change to wreck unnatural havoc, or we can create jobs preventing its worst effects. We can hand over the jobs of the 21st century to our competitors, or we can create those jobs right here in America.

We know the right choice. We have known the right choice for a generation. The time has come to make that choice, to act on what we know."  -President Obama on "Investing in our Clean Energy Future."

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