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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A new report on the nation’s Renewable Fuel Standard shows multiple ways the policy has had major unintended consequences for the environment. Researchers from University of California-Davis, Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin found that promoting the biofuel ethanol drove up...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Environmental advocates do spend a lot of time harping about threats to our oceans, but sadly for all of us the facts bear out the concern. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), population numbers for the majority of marine wildlife species have...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Unfortunately for the 40 percent of Americans (and 90 percent of the inhabitants of the rest of the world) who live in regions with air quality below healthy standards, it is true that air pollution can take a toll on our cognitive abilities....
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ENGLISH: Javier Sierra Sierra Club Donald Trump lied an average of 15 times a day in 2018, tripling his 2017 tally, according to the Washington Post. His record dramatically increased over his 35-day government shutdown, during which Trump fanned his xenophobic flames by telling the nation a menacing force of migrants threatened national...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – California last week took a huge step toward the goal of running entirely on renewable energy, as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced that it’s retiring three natural gas power plants. The L.A. DWP, which is the largest municipal utility...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The concept of “daylight savings time” (DST), whereby we set our clocks ahead by an hour from mid-Spring through mid-Fall so we can get more done using natural light later into the evening, was first proposed more than 200 years ago by Benjamin...
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EFE Miami – Los “extremadamente altos” niveles de contaminación en cuatro cruceros de la empresa Carnival pueden superar los de ciudades conocidas por su deteriorada calidad del aire como Pekín y Santiago de Chile, afirma una investigación encubierta divulgada por la Universidad Johns Hopkins. El estudio sobre “partículas ultrafinas”,...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one is happy about the recent partial shutdown of the federal government in the U.S. as President Trump plays hardball with Congress on allocating funds for his “border wall.” While essential government services typically remain open in any government shutdown, it’s up...
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How is it that bitcoin, a virtual currency that few of us have heard of and no one I know uses, is becoming a major contributor to carbon emissions? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk It’s hard to believe that bitcoin, the best known of a group of...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A new report on the nation’s Renewable Fuel Standard shows multiple ways the policy has had major unintended consequences for the environment. Researchers from University of California-Davis, Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin found that promoting the biofuel ethanol drove up...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Environmental advocates do spend a lot of time harping about threats to our oceans, but sadly for all of us the facts bear out the concern. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), population numbers for the majority of marine wildlife species have...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Unfortunately for the 40 percent of Americans (and 90 percent of the inhabitants of the rest of the world) who live in regions with air quality below healthy standards, it is true that air pollution can take a toll on our cognitive abilities....
ENGLISH: Javier Sierra Sierra Club Donald Trump lied an average of 15 times a day in 2018, tripling his 2017 tally, according to the Washington Post. His record dramatically increased over his 35-day government shutdown, during which Trump fanned his xenophobic flames by telling the nation a menacing force of migrants threatened national...
Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – California last week took a huge step toward the goal of running entirely on renewable energy, as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced that it’s retiring three natural gas power plants. The L.A. DWP, which is the largest municipal utility...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The concept of “daylight savings time” (DST), whereby we set our clocks ahead by an hour from mid-Spring through mid-Fall so we can get more done using natural light later into the evening, was first proposed more than 200 years ago by Benjamin...
EFE Miami – Los “extremadamente altos” niveles de contaminación en cuatro cruceros de la empresa Carnival pueden superar los de ciudades conocidas por su deteriorada calidad del aire como Pekín y Santiago de Chile, afirma una investigación encubierta divulgada por la Universidad Johns Hopkins. El estudio sobre “partículas ultrafinas”,...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one is happy about the recent partial shutdown of the federal government in the U.S. as President Trump plays hardball with Congress on allocating funds for his “border wall.” While essential government services typically remain open in any government shutdown, it’s up...
How is it that bitcoin, a virtual currency that few of us have heard of and no one I know uses, is becoming a major contributor to carbon emissions? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk It’s hard to believe that bitcoin, the best known of a group of...