The Wenatchee World Online - Freeze watch is on for tonight

NCW — The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch throughout North Central Washington for late tonight and Wednesday morning, putting orchardists and other farmers on alert.

Obama plans [fossil-fueled] Las Vegas getaway to help Harry Reid get big money | Los Angeles Times

And what better way for a new Democratic administration to symbolize cutting out excess in a time of hardship for millions of Americans than to hold a mega-fundraiser in Las Vegas, that urban personification of understatement, for a guy with millions in hand already and no one to spend it against?

Though the Democratic Senate majority leader's May 26 fundraiser at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace will feature Strip headliner Midler and songstress Crow, the biggest draw will be the commander in chief himself.

EPA's greenhouse gas ruling defies economic warning - Los Angeles Times

The agency's declaration that emissions pose a health danger could have 'serious economic consequences' and lead to lawsuits against the government, an outside assessment concludes.
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The staff assessment, prepared under standard EPA policy, said the endangerment finding could open the door to lawsuits that might end up forcing the government to impose restrictions on such unrelated subjects as electromagnetic fields and even noise pollution.

The review team that prepared the assessment said the basis for the EPA's statement that greenhouse gases "overwhelmingly" endanger public health and welfare because they contribute to global warming was "especially weak."

Predictions of devastating climate change are "accompanied by uncertainties so large that they potentially overwhelm the magnitude of the harm," the report contended.