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California's environmental laws: Job creators, not job killers
Who knew that being a smoggy place might be good for business? Gov. Jerry Brown is in China, and one of the things he’s pitching is California’s expertise in dealing with smog. Because if there’s one thing we have in common with the...
Tags: China, Air Pollution, Plant Openings, Politics, Government
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Jerry Brown makes cosmic case for carbon reduction
BEIJING -- Gov. Jerry Brown used a stage at one of China’s most prestigious universities Thursday to make his pitch for environmental policies that he said could help reverse the global impacts of climate change and boost the economies of China...
Tags: Politics, Ecosystems, Environmental Issues, Conservation, China
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China pollution may hold silver lining for California
BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are...
Tags: Politics, Environmental Issues, U.S. Embassy, Ernst & Young, Conservation
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The bee hero: Fighting the largest die-off of bees in U.S. history
This being Utah, the self-proclaimed Beehive State, Darren Cox is an expert in -- what else -- bees. Civic fathers use the term for the population’s strong work ethic, but Cox deals with the stinging, honey-producing real McCoy. Now the fourth-...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, AIDS, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Letters: Rat poison and human health
Re "Ban super rat poisons," Editorial, April 5 Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of d-CON pesticides, is challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to stop the sale of second-generation rodenticides because we believe it is the right...Tags: Reckitt Benckiser, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Iran
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As Brown visits China, California-Quebec carbon-trade deal advances
BEIJING -- As he brings his message of carbon reduction to top officials in China, Gov. Jerry Brown moved another step closer to broadening California's carbon-trading market Tuesday. Before crossing the Pacific, the governor sent a letter to the...
Tags: China, Politics, Government, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Gov. Brown will mean business on his weeklong trip to China
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown is stepping back onto the world stage. After two years largely spent cloistered in California tending to the fiscal crisis, he starts a weeklong visit to China on Tuesday in a bid to reclaim the state's reputation...
Tags: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Politics, Xi Jinping, Environmental Issues, Hybrid Vehicles
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3 of top 10 most polluted ZIP Codes in California are in L.A. County
If it's any consolation to Southern California, none of its ZIP Codes claimed the top spot as the state's most polluted, according to a California Environmental Protection Agency report. That dubious distinction went to Fresno. But three of the 10...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Ban super rat poisons
Poison-control centers receive about 15,000 calls a year from parents of children younger than 6 who have been exposed to poison that was intended to kill rats or mice, according to a January report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A...
Tags: Reckitt Benckiser, Wildlife, Consumers, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Will new EPA goals raise gasoline prices or clean air, save lives?
Depends on whom you ask. The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed what it called "sensible standards for cars and gasoline that will significantly reduce harmful pollution, prevent thousands of premature deaths and illnesses" while...
Tags: Market and Exchange, Gasoline Industry, American Petroleum, Passenger Cars, Economy, Business and Finance
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Gov. Jerry Brown cheers proposed federal clean-fuel rules
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday hailed the federal Environmental Protection Agency's embrace of proposed clean-fuel standards to be implemented across the country. "For decades, California has carefully crafted emissions standards to protect...
Tags: Politics, Government, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petroleum Industry
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Obama names the first woman to head the Secret Service
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday named a high-ranking career employee of the U.S. Secret Service to become its first female director. Julia A. Pierson, a veteran of the agency’s Miami and Orlando, Fla., field offices, serves as...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, Career and Workplace, Environmental Issues
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