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L.A. Times - Environment
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'Gasland' director Joshua Fox vs. the Republican oil lobby
The battle between "Gasland" director Joshua Fox and Republicans in the House who support fracking has now turned into a tussle over the First Amendment.
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'Gasland' director Joshua Fox arrested filming House panel
At the behest of the Republican leadership of a House of Representatives subcommittee, Capitol Police arrested Joshua Fox, the maker of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Gasland,” when he tried on Wednesday to film a subcommittee hearing on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method used to tap oil and gas reservoirs.
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EPA beach pollution rules allow 1 in 28 to get sick
Proposed new beach pollution regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, meant to protect public health, instead would continue to allow lots of people to get sick, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC.
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Restored wetlands no match for real thing
How easy is it to recreate nature? When it comes to wetlands, the answer seems to be “not very.”
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PETA goes nearly nude in Vernon meat protest
Activists with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals like to nude up in their demonstrations, and last week was no exception. On Friday, three ladies stripped down (well, they were wearing panties) in front of a Farmer John sausage processing plant in Vernon to protest the consumption of meat and what they claim is the inhumane treatment of farm animals.
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New California rules require cleaner cars
California, long a national leader in cutting auto pollution, pushed the envelope further Friday when state regulators approved a suite of rules designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and put far more more pollution-free vehicles on the road in coming years.
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Florida Legislature drops anti-videotaping language
The Florida Legislature has dropped a controversial provision that would have made it a crime to photograph or videotape on agricultural facilities without consent.
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Scientists were asked to downplay Deepwater Horizon spill rates
Estimates of the amount of oil spewing from BP’s blown-out deep-sea well were an ongoing subject of debate and controversy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which wound up on the record books as the nation’s largest offshore oil spill.
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L.A. has a coal problem
When protesters were arrested at the management offices of a huge coal-fired power plant in Arizona in December, it highlighted a very untidy fact about electricity in green-conscious L.A.: about half of it comes from coal.
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National climate change strategy proposed for wildlife
The United States has no national strategy for curtailing its contributions to climate change, but it does now have a partial strategy for responding to its effects. On Thursday, the Obama administration released a draft of the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy , a plan to coordinate responses to global warming across the country.
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