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Canadian Enviro Minister Hits Washington, with Cap (and Trade) in Hand 1%

Toronto Globe and Mail 03/02/2009 In meetings with top administration officials, Canadian federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice will push Canada's proposal for a continental system of ...

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Washington "Death with Dignity Law" Set to Take Effect 1%

Seattle Times 03/02/2009 Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication. But those who might ...

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Montana and Other States Debate Role of Environment Regs in Recession 1%

Seattle Times 03/02/2009 The call for economic stimulus is having an unintended side effect in places like Montana, where environmental protections are on the verge of being repealed ...

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Alternative Energy Gains Fans in Alaska 1%

Fairbanks Daily News Miner 03/02/2009 ill and Dorothy Fry, owners of Bear Creek Winery and Lodging in Homer, have always been mindful of the environment, encouraging customers to recycle and only ...

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On the Wings of Birds 1%

Seattle Times 03/01/2009 Seattle photographer Paul Bannick, in his new book "The Owl and The Woodpecker," offers both an indication of our ecological future and the inspiration for ...

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Views: Social Housing Should Be Affordable 1%

Vancouver Sun 03/01/2009 Faced with the choice of building 252 units of social housing or adding more than twice that number to the housing stock available to low-income citizens, our ...

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Yakima Weighs in at No. 8 in List of Fattest Cities 1%

Yakima Herald 03/01/2009 It all depends on how the numbers are sliced and diced -- or deep-fried as the case may be -- but by one measure Yakima is the eighth-fattest city in the ...

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Views: Get Rolling on Boise Transit Center 1%

Boise Idaho Statesman 03/01/2009 In theory, at least, the Downtown transit center should be a draw. By focusing bus stops and bus parking in one location, the center should provide a focal ...

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Wind-Technology Boot Camp Jumpstarts New Industry 1%

Los Angeles Times 03/01/2009 At Wind Technology Boot Camp at Cerro Coso Community College, eight weeks of study and $1,000 in tuition might lead to a job repairing mammoth wind turbines ...

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Views: Walking at Nexus of Health, Economy, Climate Issues 1%

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 03/01/2009 Sometime in the 20th century, walking became primarily a form of exercise for Americans. By mid-century, bicycling was for kids and the occasional exerciser ...

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Oregon Log Prices Hit Rock Bottom 1%

USA Today 03/01/2009 The timber market on the North Coast has deteriorated to the point where industry experts say they don't even know how much a log is worth anymore. How can ...

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Lead Levels Plummet in Young Children 1%

Los Angeles Times 03/02/2009 In a stunning improvement in children's health, far fewer kids have high lead levels than 20 years ago, government research shows -- a testament to aggressive ...

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Morph Seattle Trolleys into a New Green Line 1%

Crosscut 03/02/2009 The route map beguiles, looking like a Futurama-fantasia to a city that has seen such wild dreams before: a network of transit lines running through downtown ...

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Can a 'Smart Grid' Turn Us on to Energy Efficiency? 1%

CNN 03/02/2009 Think of the future of green energy and the mental picture you may conjure up is one of vast solar plants glinting like a beetle's eye in the sun, or ranks of ...

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Mine Waste Trips up Alaska Gold Rush 1%

Los Angeles Times 03/01/2009 Berners Bay also has become one of the epicenters of a new Alaska gold rush. High in the snowy peaks at the top of the bay, miners struck an estimated 1.4 ...

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Trouble in Boomerland 1%

Vancouver Sun 03/01/2009 Boomers are facing some tough choices and many will have to seriously consider working longer if they want to proceed with the retirement plans they drew up ...

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Evolution of Climate Science 1%

Living on Earth 03/01/2009 Climate science traditionally focuses on research and gathering data. But a new report says the focus must shift and address mitigation and adaptation to the ...

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Minamata, Japan, and Libby Montana, Share Legacies of Tragedy 1%

Missoulian 03/01/2009 There are, of course, some very obvious differences between Libby, Mont., and Minamata, Japan. Minamata has its dancing cats, for instance, while Libby has ...

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BC on the Hook for $3.3-billion Port Mann Bridge 1%

Toronto Globe and Mail 03/01/2009 Just weeks after hard-hatted politicians kicked off construction of a new, 10-lane Port Mann bridge, the province of British Columbia announced Friday that it ...

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Views: Let's Win National Race for Green Jobs 1%

Everett Herald 03/01/2009 It'd be one thing if doing nothing -- or going the other way and polluting more -- would create jobs. Maybe that works in theory. In real life, it doesn't. ...

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Agent Goes Undercover to Nab a Gang of Poachers 1%

Seattle Times 03/01/2009 Rumors of a poaching ring had been circulating in Southwest Washington when Fish and Wildlife got a phone call with a tip in late 2006. Mick Gordon was trying ...

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California's Middle class Getting Less for its Tax Dollars 1%

Los Angeles Times 03/01/2009 Middle-class Californians have long griped about paying more taxes than they might pay elsewhere, but for decades this state could boast that it gave them ...

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Health Insurers, Poised for Round 2 1%

New York Times 03/01/2009 Given the current sentiment, US health insurers understand that they won’t be able to beat back all efforts at sweeping change, as they did so successfully ...

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Joining Central Oregon’s Green Wave 1%

Bend Bulletin 03/01/2009 Proving there’s more to green jobs than hype, Western Community Energy -- which builds and operates small-scale wind power farms -- plans to more than double ...

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Only One Trash Code Enforcer Left — and the Job’s Harder, Too 1%

Bend Bulletin 03/01/2009 After three rounds of budget cuts, Bend relies on one man to check on violations, from garbage piling up to cars in yards. A few years ago, the city’s biggest ...

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Ever-Raging Debate on Predator Control 1%

Anchorage Daily News 03/01/2009 Hard-core hunters, animal lovers and the factions in between are at war this week in downtown Anchorage as the state board that decides Alaska's hunting rules ...

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Redesigning First Nations Schools 1%

The Tyee 03/01/2009 It's been 20 years since an architect and civil servant named Marie-Odile Marceau challenged the way First Nations schools were designed and delivered in this ...

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Obama Defends Plan As Economy Sinks 1%

NPR 03/01/2009 The U.S. economy continues to spiral downward. A report released Friday by the Commerce Department shows that the economy contracted at the end of last year by ...