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commentary
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The Last Green Republican? Russell E. Train, 1920-2012
Post date:He was deeply engaged with some of the late 20th-century's most pivotal environmental issues, and did so as a Republican stalwart -- Richard Nixon, for example, appointed him as the EPA's second administrator.
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la county
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EPA Won't Block Permit for Palmdale Power Plant
Post date:The EPA clears a procedural roadblock for a gas-fired power plant in Palmdale that has some solar attached.
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Doc Hastings
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Energy Policy Shakes Down Along Party Lines As Election Nears
Post date:Republicans gear up to end the war... on coal.
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laws that shaped l.a.
History & Society
Don't Bury Your Head In The Sand: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
Post date:Thanks to this piece of legislation, many of the water bodies of the United States are by now, cleaner.
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EPA
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EPA Maps Thousands of California Renewable Energy Sites
Post date:Renewable energy enthusiasts have been saying for a few years that there's plenty of disturbed and damaged land we could be developing for solar, wind, and other renewables. And now, the EPA is backing them up.
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San Francisco
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California Dominates EPA On-Site Renewable Energy List
Post date:The EPA announces who's generating the most green energy near where they use it, and the list is very Californian.
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Wildlife
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Rat Poison, Peet's Coffee, and the California Desert
Post date:The coffee chain is caught in the middle of two cycles: one in nature, the other in the corporate world.
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council for watershed health
Earth Focus
Council for Watershed Health Receives EPA Grant for Watershed Report Card
Post date:A recent grant aims to develop a comprehensive report card that can be used to measure progress and success of the different Urban Waters Federal Partnership agencies at the Los Angeles River watershed.
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EPA
History & Society
Congratulations George Wolfe, 2012 River Hero
Post date:KCET Departures congratulates George Wolfe as a recipient of the 2012 River Heroes Award.
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History & Society
Smog in a Can - Genuine Los Angeles Smog
Post date:"Smog in a Can" allowed everyone the chance to share the same genuine Los Angeles air as Hollywood stars.
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SoCal Focus
Water Tainted with Chromium-6 in Desert Cities, Explained
Post date:Tap water in Valley cities contains the known human carcinogen hexavalent chromium in concentrations that far exceed maximum levels proposed by the State of California, according to a study.
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laws that shaped l.a.
History & Society
How Los Angeles Began to Put its Smoggy Days Behind
Post date:If you think smog in Los Angeles is bad now, imagine how suffocating it was before the Clean Air Act of 1970.
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Claremont
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SoCal Water Fights: Why the Price of White Gold Is Rising & What Can Be Done About It
Post date:Golden State Water Company wants to raise its rates; citizens are fighting back. Are they asking the right questions?
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Slash and Burn: A Weird GOP Attack on Smokey Bear
Post date:Republicans want to torch Smokey Bear to save a couple of bucks. But that's not what they are really up to.
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transportation
SoCal Focus
California High-Speed Rail and Feds Get on Board for Route Sustainability
Post date:The California High-Speed Rail Authority and federal authorities today got on board to sign a clean pact.
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Feds Choose Los Angeles for New Urban Waters Initiative
Post date:Los Angeles is one of seven cities chosen for a pilot project to revitalize polluted urban waterways, White House officials announced today.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Environmental SmackDown: Green Politics in the 2012 Presidential Campaign
Post date:Can President Obama use the environment as a wedge issue in the 2012 campaign? Here's how he might.
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environment
SoCal Focus
California Condors Given Execution Reprieve At Newhall Ranch
Post date:But that doesn't mean the condor is out of danger. Plans are still in effect to fill in and pave over their breeding grounds.
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Hydraulic Fracturing
SoCal Focus
Fracking America: We All Bear the High Cost of 'Cheap' Natural Gas
Post date:They say that "fracking" will give us cheap, clean energy but its deleterious impact on public health and the environment makes it as dirty as coal, as messy as oil.
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EPA
SoCal Focus
High Mercury Levels found in Angelenos May be from Distant, Coal-fired Power Plants
Post date:"People know that [mercury] accumulates from large predatory fish, but they don't know that it comes from the atmosphere and travels for thousands of miles...the fact that it could have come from originally, across the globe, that's something that peop...