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Addressing air pollution and climate change with clean energy

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:01:07 MDT

Addressing air pollution and climate change with clean energy

By David Folland

Updated Jun 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT

This weekend, for the third year in a row, I’ll be traveling to Washington, D.C., to push Congress to enact meaningful legislation that will rein in climate change. Many people would view this as a fool’s errand, given the gridlock that exists in Washington right now, but I’ve found a number of reasons to be hopeful. Besides, this is one problem where failure is not an option. While only one congressman from Utah, Rep. Jim Matheson, has publically affirmed that we need to address human-caused c...

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Redford goes after pollution, and Obama, in new ad

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:22:03 MDT

Redford goes after pollution, and Obama, in new ad

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 12, 2013 10:22AM MDT

Robert Redford may be coming soon to a TV screen near you -- in an ad urging government action on climate change. The 30-second ad, for the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes aim at coal-fired power plants — and ends with Redford telling viewers to urge President Barack Obama “to make dirty power plants clean up their carbon pollution.” The ad includes a brief clip from Obama’s second inaugural address, in which he promised to “respond to the threat of climate change.” Redford also takes a...

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Milbank: Holding back the tide of climate change

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:39:02 MDT

Milbank: Holding back the tide of climate change

By Dana Milbank The Washington Post

Updated Jun 12, 2013 08:39AM MDT

WASHINGTON — The National Mall has monuments to heroism, freedom and sacrifice. Pretty soon it will also have a monument to failure. Drive on 17th Street NW, just south of Constitution Avenue, and you’ll see concrete footings, a mound of dirt and jersey barriers -- all part of an oft-delayed project to build a flood wall to protect downtown Washington from a rising Potomac River. The flood wall, and similar initiatives elsewhere, amount to tacit acknowledgments that the fight against c...

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Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:33:34 MDT

Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC

By JENNIFER PELTZ The Associated Press

Updated Jun 11, 2013 10:33PM MDT

New York • Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming. The plan — which would also include the building of marshes and the flood-proofing of homes and hospitals — is one of the biggest, most sweeping projects ever proposed for defending a major U.S. city from the ris...

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Drought, climate change, forest practices elevate Utah’s wildfire risk

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:59:38 MDT

Drought, climate change, forest practices elevate Utah’s wildfire risk

By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 5, 2013 06:59AM MDT

Drought could make this summer especially busy with wildfires, warn forest and climate researchers at Utah State University. A changing climate is one significant factor in the forecast now and in future years. So is the hazard created by modern forest management, said Michael Jenkins, associate professor in USU’s Quinney College of Natural Resources. Aggressive management has been “essentially eliminated,” and dry forest undergrowth has built up, turning parts of Utah into tinderboxes, he said...

Speiser: Congress should affirm evidence on climate

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Speiser: Congress should affirm evidence on climate

By XXXXXX The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Do you still doubt that climate change is happening, and that human actions cause it? Please take another look. A team of researchers released a survey of more than 12,000 peer-reviewed climate research papers last week, by far the largest and most rigorous such survey to date. The upshot: 97 percent of climate research, published in solid scientific journals, affirms that climate change is happening and that human actions are responsible. But it isn’t just the scientists. Research published l...