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| Obama just announced a goal to cut federal permitting time in half for infrastructure projects, with an eye on resiliency. |
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| Obama on addressing climate: "we have to start now for the sake of our kids...the tools are available to us to make huge strides" soon. |
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| Obama in NY today said we need a "realistic" way to address climate change. "We’re not going to reverse the trends overnight..." |
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| Big dunes, built since the disco era, protected one Jersey town from Sandy's surge. reports from Avon. |
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| A dog survives an hours-long swim in Sandy floodwater. Her owners are pretty tough too. |
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| In Jersey, 250 people want the federal government to buy their flooded homes. |
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| Random fact: As senators rejected gun safety bills yesterday, the Pentagon was announcing an arms sale to Singapore. |
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| Great story by about a town in Haiti where one bulb means a lot. |
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| Obama today on climate change: "I think that the science is indisputable, and this is an obligation we owe to future generations." |
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| Kate Ling writes about the silver lining for oft-maligned electric vehicles: |
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| Obama in Calif. points to a "great urgency" to fulfill his legacy, including the "core environmental challenge" of climate change. |
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| Harry Reid told me that the Senate will try to fulfill Obama's request for climate change legislation "someday." |
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| The famed "attention-paid-to-chances-of-actually-happening" ratio for a US carbon tax is simply off the charts at the moment. |
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| Causes of global : 1. thermal expansion of ocean 2. melting of land ice 3. reduced water stored on land |
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| On Hurricane Sandy, a fed insurance official concerned about climate says: "This wasn't the big one. You may think it was, but it wasn't." |
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| Sheldon Whitehouse's interest in climate change is fishy. |
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| US insurers are not ready for climate change, a new analysis says. |
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| Seas of straw could generate all of China's electricity. Residents instead are turning to coal. |
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| Because they get candy, too? |
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| Obama's climate challenge: Sen. Ron Johnson says scientists haven't "proved [warming] in any way, shape or form." |
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