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Climate Change: China, U.S. Bring Toy Fire Truck to 7-Alarm Fire

Flare on oil rig
by Bill Chameides
Jun 12, 2013

Global greenhouse gas emissions are higher than ever. What’s to be done?

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JFK and the Environmentalists’ Credo

JFK, June 1963
by Bill Chameides
Jun 10, 2013

Exactly 50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy said it perhaps better than anyone else has before or since.

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Chemical Safety Reform: A Tale of Two Bills

Chemicals in beakers
by Bill Chameides
Jun 6, 2013

Senator Frank Lautenberg left us with two bills aimed at updating and improving the regulation and safety of the chemicals we use and live with. Which one’s better?

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Global Disruptors: Hackers, Rickety Bridges, 150 Year Olds

Earth from Space
by Bill Chameides
Jun 4, 2013

Living a whole century and a half? Apparently, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think, but it carries with it risks.

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Frank Lautenberg, 1924–2013

Sen. Frank lLautenberg
by Bill Chameides
Jun 3, 2013

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), the lone ranger on toxic substance reform, dies.

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A Tart Look at the Most-Used Sweetener You’ve Never Heard Of

sugar and artificial sweeteners
by Bill Chameides
May 31, 2013

Today we look at what's in your sweetener.

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Forests Fuel Hydropower

Map of Xingu River (pink) and the site of Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam (arrow).
by Bill Chameides
May 28, 2013

In the Amazon, you don’t need to burn wood for a forest to contribute to energy production.

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On Science, Politics and Climate Change

It's important to avoid "overheated rhetoric" on climate change. It's equally important to get the science right. For example, while the rate of warming in the atmosphere in the 2000s has slowed, the oceans continue to absorb heat, and some of that heat will undoubtedly eventually find its way into the atmosphere. (Flickr/lanacar)
by Bill Chameides
May 22, 2013

U.S. Representative Lamar Smith’s strutting his science cred.

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A Tar Sands Byproduct: Mountains of Coke

by Bill Chameides
May 20, 2013

What rhymes with Keystone XL and petroleum coke?

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Statistically Speaking: U.S. Shipping by the Numbers

truck
by Bill Chameides
May 15, 2013

What’s in all those trucks anyway? Being a consumer in the global economy has its advantages. We can get stuff [...]

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