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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Halloween may be fun, but…this most ghoulish of holidays is also cause for lots of waste, given the preponderance of one-time use costumes that end up in a box or in the trash come November 1. And sustainability proponents also decry Halloween for...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Wave power advocates cheered in September 2016 when Hawaii-based Naval researchers started feeding power from two experimental offshore wave energy devices into the grid on nearby Oahu, representing the first time the American public could access electricity derived from ocean waves. The trickle...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), located on Alaska’s northeast coast, has been a conservation-versus-development battleground for decades. The 1.5 million acre coastal plain at the foot of the Brooks Range where the land meets the Arctic Ocean is the crown jewel of...
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StatePoint Cool weather means tailgating, apple picking, attending festivals and enjoying the changing leaves. It also means it’s time to refresh the wardrobe. “This fall, there are plenty of new colors, styles and patterns to try,” says Brittany Moeller, women’s buyer for Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse, a fashion-forward shoe...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Advocates say the nation’s two million farmworkers deserve a safe place to work, free of hazardous chemicals, so they petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday September 21, 2016 to ban the use of a toxic pesticide called chlorpyrifos....
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Suzanne Potter California News Service PALM DESERT, Calif. – La Secretaria del Interior de los Estados Unidos, Sally Jewell, viajo este pasado miercoles, 13 de septiembre a Palm Desert para firmar el registro que deja en firme el Plan de Conservacion de Energia Renovable del Desierto (Desert Renewable Energy...
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EarthTalk As many endangered species near extinction, cloning seems like a viable solution to rebuild populations. Using DNA from already deceased animals, cloning can even increase the diversity of a gene pool. There are only seven white rhinos confirmed to be alive today, for example, so adding only a...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service OXNARD, Calif. – A proposed new natural-gas power plant in Southern California faced concerted opposition at the Coastal Commission meeting this week. On Friday September 9, 2016, members took into consideration a recommendation by staff that the Puente Project be relocated away from the...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Smoke waves are just what they sound like: huge waves of smoke. Perhaps more dangerous than the fires themselves from which they radiate, smoke waves can cause health problems for people hundreds of miles around. Forest fire flames licking at homes and neighborhoods...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Halloween may be fun, but…this most ghoulish of holidays is also cause for lots of waste, given the preponderance of one-time use costumes that end up in a box or in the trash come November 1. And sustainability proponents also decry Halloween for...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Wave power advocates cheered in September 2016 when Hawaii-based Naval researchers started feeding power from two experimental offshore wave energy devices into the grid on nearby Oahu, representing the first time the American public could access electricity derived from ocean waves. The trickle...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), located on Alaska’s northeast coast, has been a conservation-versus-development battleground for decades. The 1.5 million acre coastal plain at the foot of the Brooks Range where the land meets the Arctic Ocean is the crown jewel of...
StatePoint Cool weather means tailgating, apple picking, attending festivals and enjoying the changing leaves. It also means it’s time to refresh the wardrobe. “This fall, there are plenty of new colors, styles and patterns to try,” says Brittany Moeller, women’s buyer for Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse, a fashion-forward shoe...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Advocates say the nation’s two million farmworkers deserve a safe place to work, free of hazardous chemicals, so they petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday September 21, 2016 to ban the use of a toxic pesticide called chlorpyrifos....
Suzanne Potter California News Service PALM DESERT, Calif. – La Secretaria del Interior de los Estados Unidos, Sally Jewell, viajo este pasado miercoles, 13 de septiembre a Palm Desert para firmar el registro que deja en firme el Plan de Conservacion de Energia Renovable del Desierto (Desert Renewable Energy...
EarthTalk As many endangered species near extinction, cloning seems like a viable solution to rebuild populations. Using DNA from already deceased animals, cloning can even increase the diversity of a gene pool. There are only seven white rhinos confirmed to be alive today, for example, so adding only a...
Suzanne Potter California News Service OXNARD, Calif. – A proposed new natural-gas power plant in Southern California faced concerted opposition at the Coastal Commission meeting this week. On Friday September 9, 2016, members took into consideration a recommendation by staff that the Puente Project be relocated away from the...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Smoke waves are just what they sound like: huge waves of smoke. Perhaps more dangerous than the fires themselves from which they radiate, smoke waves can cause health problems for people hundreds of miles around. Forest fire flames licking at homes and neighborhoods...