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Becker, White House staff meet on pressing climate change challenges
Posted by Deseret News: Amy Joi O'Donoghue on January 18th, 2014
Deseret News: The White House came to town on Friday to hear what climate change challenges are uniquely problematic for Salt Lake City: air pollution, wildland fires, and protecting the watershed.
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker hosted White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs David Agnew and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley during a discussion on choices leaders can make to craft more climate-resistant communities, and where and how the federal government should...
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Posted by Deseret News: Amy Joi O'Donoghue on March 5th, 2011
Deseret News: Now that environmental activist Tim DeChristopher has been convicted for monkey wrenching a Bureau of Land Management auction, it remains to be seen what impact he will have on the environmental movement. Even DeChristopher himself has said that his cause is larger than climate change or protecting the environment and more about righting the wrongs caused by the unjust — be it the government or others. "This is about building self-empowerment," DeChristopher told a crowd of supporters Thursday...
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