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Climate is a hot topic in the Kansas Legislature
Posted by Kansas City Star: Brad Cooper on March 3rd, 2013
Kansas City Star: Almost a decade after Kansas wrestled with the merits of evolution, the Legislature now grapples with the politics of environmental science.
As they move to ease often expensive renewable-energy mandates, lawmakers also debate the climate-change worries that help motivate such regulations.
Bills look not just to set aside the concerns about greenhouse gases spewed to generate energy. Some would also require schools to teach challenges to mainstream climate science. Others aim to prevent public...
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With Lingering Drought Comes Plans for New Reservoirs
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 3rd, 2013
New York Times: Tucked away in northeast Texas, Lake Gilmer was the last major reservoir built in the state, more than a decade ago. Local officials said they had intended to share construction costs and water with a new power plant, but the power company backed out, leaving the City of Gilmer with the bill. Rather than serve city or industrial customers as a water source, the lake is mostly used for bass fishing. Nonetheless, Texas’ interest in reservoirs is reviving as the drought persists and growing cities...
Plants tell a story of climate change at Santa Fe Dam
Posted by Whittier Daily News: Steve Scauzillo on March 3rd, 2013
Whittier Daily News: Ann Croissant bent down to listen to what the plants were saying.
She skimmed her weathered hands lightly across the tops of the moss and liverwort. These lichen-like plants are skin of the earth flora seen more often during dank winters. But here it was, March 1, just a few weeks until spring, and the plethora of winter species crowding out the fleeting spring arrivals concerned Croissant, a noted botanist and activist who has taught at Cal Poly Pomona and Azusa Pacific University.
"There...