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Green groups to Obama: Designate public lands to stop oil and gas drilling - The Hill's E2-Wire

Environmental lobbyists are pressing President Obama to turn more western lands into national monuments to prevent oil-and-gas companies from drilling there.

Interview - James Balog: The photographer and climate change activist on the inconvenient truth revealed in new movie Chasing Ice

US poll numbers show Americans believe in climate change – but a rabid fanatical minority has an outsized voice because they have the money.

[Q] Does it make you angry?

Absolutely. Just last night I was watching an [anti-climate change] PBS show and it made me incredibly angry. It’s so greedy and selfish and inexcusable those financial interests say, ‘We don’t care, it doesn’t matter to us.’ The deniers have painted the evidence as coming from esoteric out-there, living-on-a-moonbeam types that we can’t trust, which is just blarney.