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Beck Falsely Claims Navy Not Involved In Oil Spill Clean Up

photo via flickr Is it worthwhile to correct the record when it comes to Glenn Beck? The self-described “rodeo clown” has made a habit of saying outrageous comments to get media attention and properly enrage his audience, but words have consequences, of course, so despite his cynical plays it’s still necessary to correct his wild pronouncements. Beck’s latest misstatement involves the Navy’s actions in the BP Deepwater disaster. Beck claims they haven’t been brought in, but naturally the truth is the exact opposite. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees in Two Days

Photo via TomekY If you thought unscrupulous logging practices were the only threat to the world’s largest rainforest, then think again. According to a new study, one extremely powerful storm in 2005 resulted in the deaths of an estimated 441 million to 663 million trees along the Amazon basin in just a matter of days, releasing an untold amount of carbon into the atmosphere. What’s worse is that as global temperatures rise from CO2 emissions worldwide,

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Obama Admin Issues New Offshore Drilling Moratorium – After Judge Struck Down First One

Oil spill cleanup vehicle photo: US Coast Guard via flickr Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a new offshore oil drilling moratorium will be issued–a little more than two weeks after

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Genetically Modified Salmon May Be Declared "Safe" For Human Consumption

Trisopterus luscus or “pout,” genes from which have been inserted into Atlantic Salmon for the purpose of making it eat all the time. Image credit: Wikipedia This proposed commercial genetic trick – inserting the genes of a “pout fish” (as pictured ) into Atlantic Salmon genes – has nothing to do with improved taste or texture or color or nutrition we’d appreciate as salmon-eating consumers. It’s being done so farm-raised Atlantic salmon will eat year round, gaining weight through what would naturally have been the spawning season. Maybe, just maybe, consumer cos… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Instant Oil Spill" Covers Your Favorite Websites in Crude

Screenshots from using InstantOilSpill Wonder what it’s like to be an endangered sea turtle in the Gulf of Mexico right now, to be bobbing along and suddenly your vision is filled with oil? A Cleaner Future has created Instant Oil Spill, an interactive website that provides just such a perspective by showing crude oil bubbling up on any website you choose to visit. Is it an eye-opener, or a time-waster?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Just What We Needed Dept: A Sandwich In A Can

Possibly appearing soon on grocery shelves is the Candwich, which the New York Times thinks might be “the next can’t-miss billion-dollar idea.” Or not. What’s wrong with this picture?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Top 10 U.S. Cities For Green Job Seekers

photo via SOS Ministries Recently, friends and new college graduates have been asking me how they can get into the field of sustainability. When the question has arisen, I have found myself wondering where the green jobs are sprouting. Then, yesterday, I came across a post in Mother Nature Network listing the top 10 cities for green jobs. California led the pack with three of its cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento in t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Whole Foods To Make Personal Care Products Companies Prove Their Organic Claims

Whole Foods founder John Mackey, photo via new yorker Whole Foods has taken its knocks , but no one can doubt that the company has been a leader in pushing forward progressive policies that are good for the earth. The Austin-based grocer’s latest move is to require third-party certification by June 1, 2011 for personal care products and cosmetics that make an “organic” claim…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spill Some Oil, Vent Some Rage with InstantOilSpill.com

Image Credit: InstantOilSpill.com The anger at BP over the past three months has been expressed in a lot of ways: calls to boycott the company into bankruptcy . A competition to redesign BP’s logo . Even a tarring and feathering . Few, however, have been as cathartic as InstantOilSpill.com , whic… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Administration Opens Up 1.8 million Acres Of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve

photo via flickr Fridays in Washington D.C. are often days in which bad news is dumped. The idea is that the news will get lost over the weekend while Americans are recharging for the week ahead. So maybe that’s why the Interior Department announced Friday that they will offer oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a ecologically sensitive area important for bird migration. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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