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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
INDIANA FLOODING 2 W. Ind. towns flooded, more rain expected UNDATED (AP) — Residents of a small western Indiana town across the Wabash River from Terre Haute are using sandbags to shore up a levee in a bid to keep flood waters out of about two...Tags: Environmental Issues, Justice System, Planned Parenthood, Columbine High School Massacre (1999), Politics
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Lucie L. Snodgrass: Md. farmers do their part
Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has led to enormous growth in understanding the consequences we face if we do not take care of our natural resources. It has led to more action to protect our planet’s land, water, air, wildlife and human...Tags: Weather, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Conservation, Agriculture
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McManus: A tax everyone can love
The chairmen of Congress' primary tax committees, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), have launched a bipartisan effort to reform our messy, inefficient federal tax law. They've agreed to look for ways to lower tax rates on both...
Tags: Jay Carney, Environmental Issues, Bob Inglis, Politics, Conservation
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It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet
Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Muhammad Ali, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Environmental Politics, Google Inc.
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Earth Day takes on climate change, sustainability
Today is Earth Day, a day when environmentalists and concerned citizens around the world demonstrate their caring for the health of their communities, the natural world and the planet. Forty-three years ago, the first Earth Day drew an estimated 20...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Weather, Conservation, Environmental Pollution, Druid Hill
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Veteran aims criticism at Walorski
Recently, I traveled to Washington, D.C., with the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Legislative Committee, representing 41,000 VFW members from the state of Indiana. We visited every Indiana U.S. Senate and congressional office to discuss issues that...Tags: Environmental Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Dianne Feinstein, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate
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Climate change may boost turbulence
In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic on greenhouse gases. Turbulence will be stronger and occur more often if carbon dioxide emissions double by 2050, heating up the atmosphere,...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Federal Aviation Administration, Science and Technology, Air and Space Accidents
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Cap-and-trade programs in California and Quebec to merge
SACRAMENTO — California's air quality officials soon may be adding a new phrase to their bureaucratic vocabulary: "le rechauffement climatique." That's French for global warming. The California Air Resources Board on Friday linked its program...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Jerry Brown, Conservation, Environmental Pollution, Global Warming
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Global finance officials endorse World Bank target to end poverty
ReutersBy Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - Global finance officials endorsed a new World Bank goal to end extreme global poverty by 2030 and emphasized that its focus should be on ensuring that the poorest benefit from strong growth and...Tags: Poverty, Environmental Issues, Politics, Conservation, China
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French wine could get pricey, climate change study says
That bottle of Bordeaux you put aside may become even rarer in the next few decades as climate change could reduce wine grape production in traditional parts of the world and move it elsewhere, researchers say. Danish Cabernet, anyone? Wine grape...
Tags: Weather, Environmental Issues, Wines, Conservation, Science and Technology
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Don't just talk about the weather
Last December, an American milestone passed virtually unnoticed. Forty years earlier, Harrison Schmitt became the 12th and last person to walk on the moon. Mr. Schmitt and the 11 men who preceded him — beginning with Neil Armstrong in 1969 —...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ocean City, Conservation, China, Engineering
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Climate change will make flights bumpier, study says
In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic Ocean on greenhouse gases. Turbulence will be stronger and occur more often if carbon dioxide emissions double by 2050, heating up the atmosphere,...Tags: Environmental Issues, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, Conservation, Science and Technology
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