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Aug 3 2011 | The Legal Planet
U.S. District Judge James Redden has once again found the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Biological Opinion for operations of the Columbia River hydropower system inadequate to satisfy the Endangered Species Act. This is the third time in a decade that Judge Redden has been asked to review a Columbia River BiOp, the third presidential administration to try its hand at a BiOp for the system, and the third time Judge Redden has found NMFS’s efforts insufficient. |
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Aug 1 2011 | The Legal Planet
Putting a price on carbon – whether through a trading system, a carbon tax, or otherwise – will increase energy costs. These increases are regressive because the poor spend a larger portion of their budgets on gasoline, heating and power. |
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Jul 29 2011 | UC Berkeley News Center
A news study by UC Berkeley biologists finds that California’s native grasses, already under pressure from invasive exotic grasses, are likely to be pushed aside even more as the climate warms. |
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Jul 29 2011 | The Legal Planet
Steve Weissman of UC Berkeley discusses the conservation efforts in Japan in the wake of the nuclear power disaster. The Times reports that while the average Japanese consumer normally uses about half as much power as counterparts in the U.S., residents in Japan have reduced consumption even further in response to the national crisis. |
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Jul 29 2011 | University of California Research
In a remarkable outdoor laboratory in the Sierra, UC Merced and UC Berkeley researchers use sensors to gather a mother lode of data to greatly improve ecological measurement and hydrologic forecasting. |
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