Kevin Grandia | Powerful US Congressman Sends Serious Opposition to Canada Oil Sands Pipeline

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), a senior member of Congress and chair of the powerful Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce has penned a public letter to the Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton, in which he states strong opposition to a planned oil pipeline that would transport Canada's controversial tar sands oil to the US Gulf Coast.

[No, Nemo, No!]: Ocean Acidification May Make Fish Foolhardy - Science News

In the current study, published online July 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team tested clown fish and damselfish larvae’s sense of smell using a range of carbon dioxide concentrations similar to those projected in scenarios for the end of this century by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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An 11-year-old clean-energy candidate for gov of VT: "Don't you want me to be able to ski when I'm 50?" http://youtu.be/zrL3UGKZfzE