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China’s Ecological Footprint Unsustainable – We’d Still Need 1.2 Planets if Everyone Had It

photo: tinabasgen / Creative Commons China has been the world’s foremost carbon emitter for over a year now–with per capita emissions now higher than those of France–and this summer overtook the US to become the world’s largest energy consumer as well. Now, according to new analysis by WWF , China can also check itself off on another eco-black list: If everyone on the planet consumed natural resources like the average Chine… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China’s Ecological Footprint Unsustainable – We’d Still Need 1.2 Planets if Everyone Had It

Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’

Earlier this week, the health insurance lobby AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) issued a false and dishonest report claiming that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs. Even the firm hired to do the analysis — PriceWaterhouseCoopers — backpedaled from the report’s conclusions. The insurance lobby’s strategy backfired as it appeared to alienate Sen

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Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’