Category: California
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U.S. Navy to Increase Sonar Training and Underwater Detonations Despite Injury to Marine Mammals
The U.S. Navy has indicated that it intends to disregard the California Coastal Commission’s recommendations to mitigate the harmful effects of Navy sonar and offshore training exercises …
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Green Building Set to Equal Half of U.S. Construction By 2016
Green building is growing fast in the U.S., and may represent more than half of all commercial and institutional construction as soon as 2016.
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Harnessing the Power of the People to Reshape the Future of an Overheated Planet
It’s true, too, in the battle where I’ve spent most of my life: the fight to slow climate change and hence give the planet some margin for survival …
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Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log 150,000 Acres of California Old Growth Forests
Three conservation groups filed a lawsuit earlier this week against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for approving a 50-year plan by Fruit Growers Supply Co. to accelerate logging …
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Top 10 Greenest Universities in America
Sierra examined the academic institutions making a difference for the planet, seeking out campuses that are creating tangible change in all categories of greenness …