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"Dueling Solyndra Ads Foreshadow Energy-Centric Campaign"

"No signs of 'Solyndra fatigue' on the campaign front, while Obama's jobs council weighs in on a critical wind subsidy."

"How much political capital can Republican candidates and their aligned groups continue to squeeze out of Solyndra, the giant green stain on President Obama's first term?

It seems they're looking to find out, with a new ad campaign that aims to keep the failed clean energy investment in the forefront of voters' minds.

Source: InsideClimate News, 01/23/2012

"Non-Consenting Adults"

"The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored."

Source: Slate, 01/23/2012

"More States Ordering Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals"

"In a belated attempt to soothe public suspicion about shale-gas drilling, state regulators increasingly are forcing natural gas producers to disclose the chemicals used to hydraulically fracture natural gas wells."

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 01/23/2012

"Climate Scientists Back Call for Sceptic Thinktank To Reveal Backers"

"Leading climate scientists have given their support to a Freedom of Information request seeking to disclose who is funding the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based climate sceptic thinktank chaired by the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson."

Source: Guardian, 01/23/2012

"Becoming Detroit"

Detroit, one of the birthplaces of American industrial capitalism, has also been in many ways one of its earlier deathplaces -- an urban landscape where many houses and lots are abandoned. A conversation with civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs and people she inspires offers a key example of how the urban agriculture movement is reclaiming post-industrial America both physically and spiritually.

Christa Tippett hosts this episode of American Public Media's On Being January 19, 2012.

Source: On Being, 01/23/2012

Film Probes How Toxic Water at Largest US Marine Base Damaged Lives

"Mike Partain didn’t believe the rumors about a place called Baby Heaven until he visited a Jacksonville, N.C., graveyard and wandered into a section where newborns were laid to rest. Surrounded by hundreds of tiny marble headstones, he started to cry."

Source: Wash Post, 01/23/2012

"Interior Candidate Bows Out"

"President Obama will not renominate his chosen candidate for assistant secretary of interior for parks and wildlife, who ran into a firm wall of Republican opposition in the Senate."

Source: Green/NYT, 01/23/2012

"Japanese Struggle to Protect Their Food Supply"

"ONAMI, Japan -- In the fall, as this valley’s rice paddies ripened into a carpet of gold, inspectors came to check for radioactive contamination."

"Onami sits just 35 miles northwest of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which spewed radioactive cesium over much of this rural region last March. However, the government inspectors declared Onami’s rice safe for consumption after testing just two of its 154 rice farms.

Source: NY Times, 01/23/2012

"U.S. Appeals WTO Ruling On Dolphin-Safe Tuna Label"

"The United States said on Friday it was appealing a World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. dolphin-safe labeling measures for tuna in a longrunning spat with Mexico closely watched by environmentalists."

Source: Reuters, 01/23/2012

"Scientists Call Moratorium on Study of Deadly Bird Flu"

"In an almost unheard-of move, scientists who study the deadly H5N1 bird flu announced a 60-day voluntary moratorium on studying the virus to allow time 'to clearly explain the benefits of this important research and the measures taken to minimize its possible risks.'"

Source: LA Times, 01/23/2012

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