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Lawyers Get Creative for Climate Change [1]

Some lawyers are trying new legal approaches to climate change litigation.
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Climate Change [3]
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Spin War Looms on Eve of Senate Climate Debate [6]

The battle to control news media and public perceptions of the climate change issue will heat up this week as the Senate prepares to start debate on the first major US legislation to address the problem of global climate change.
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TipSheet [2]
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Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
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TOOLBOX: EPA Site Posts State-by-State Impaired Waters Data [10]

With a click or two, you can get to all the data about your state's waters which are too impaired for their designated uses.
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Water & Oceans [11]
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Teflon Woes Still Sticking to Food Packaging [12]

California may be jumping the gun on EPA's voluntary phase-out of PFCs in food packaging.
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Chemicals [13]
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Species Discoveries Are Part of the Biodiversity Story [14]

Scientists beat the bushes looking for species not yet recognized. The tally for 2007? It's 16,969.
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Biodiversity [15]
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Midnight Regs: Many Environmental Items on Final Bush Agenda (Part 1) [16]

As the Bush administration closes out its terms in office, a number of rules, policies, orders, and other actions related to the environment are expected by Jan. 19, 2009.
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Laws & Regulations [8]
Government [17]
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Online FOIA Resources [18]

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Lots of Freedom-of-Information help is available online

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21 US Cities Join Carbon Disclosure Project [21]

Some cities are joining big companies in disclosing publicly their greenhouse emissions.
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Climate Change [3]
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National (U.S.) [4]
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Is EPA's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Program Working? [22]

EPA and states may be cutting companies slack if they "audit" their own violations. Here's a database that will help you audit whether local polluters are abusing the program.
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Researchers Predict Local-Scale Climate Change Shifts [23]

A research team led by Purdue claims in a soon-to-be-published article to have mapped local U.S. climate change more precisely than has been done before.
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