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Jeff is a journalist with 25 years of experience covering environmental news for daily newspapers, alternative weeklies and a New York Times Co. wire service. He teaches at the University of Chicago and edits Contrary magazine. jeff@planetobispo.com

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Obama announces clean-energy partnership between nations of the Americas to fight global warming

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The nations of the Americas will share expertise toward cleaner energy sources and a halt to global warming through a new partnership President Obama...
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Obama heads to Mexico to 'reengage' US with Western Hemisphere

President Obama's Thursday trip to Mexico City is designed to highlight Mexico's importance to three issues confronting the Western...
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Obama signs massive wilderness and river protection act

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President Obama signed the largest conservation measure in 15 years today, the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which designates two million acres...
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EPA fires broadside at ocean-going ships, seeks clean-air zone around U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed clean-air zones that would extend 200 miles from the coasts of the continental United States and...
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House and Senate omit Obama's carbon trading market from budget

The House and Senate versions of President Obama's budget are almost identical to the president's original version, with one important difference:...
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Obama budget cuts oil company welfare, shifts tax burden from people to polluters

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Exxon-Mobile Corp. earned $1,300 per second in 2007, setting a record for American companies with its $40.6 billion profit that year. Last year, it...
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Why did CNN distort Clinton's comment on human rights?

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In case you haven't seen the quotes, here they are again. When it quoted Hillary Clinton on human rights, CNN excised her words from a longer quote...
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Amid human rights controversy, Clinton tours Chinese power plant made in USA

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As controversy arose at home concerning her commitment to pressing China on human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited a low-emission...
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EPA considers regulating CO2, but scientists have a better idea: recycle it

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Widely reported this week was the news that the Environmental Protection Agency is likely to begin regulating carbon dioxide—that stuff we...
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Obama will sign bill Tuesday to stimulate economy—and environment

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President Obama is expected to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—best known as the stimulus package—on Tuesday...
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