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Washington Post-Newsweek Environmental Headlines

  • Aviva Kempner drives me crazy. The 62-year-old documentary filmmaker -- "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" -- phoned me every week or two a few years back when I was covering the events leading to the Washington Nationals' arrival in D.C.
    • President Obama continued to reverse his predecessor's policies this week by undoing a controversial Bush administration rule known as "preemption" that used federal regulations to override state laws on the environment, health, public safety and other issues.
      • A bill to create the first national limit on greenhouse-gas emissions was approved by a House committee yesterday after a week of late-night debates that cemented the shift of climate change from rhetorical jousting to a subject of serious, if messy, Washington policymaking.
        • After lawmakers consumed all of Monday afternoon with opening statements, debate over a bill that would cap U.S. greenhouse gas emissions finally got underway in a House committee yesterday.
          • The Obama administration today plans to propose tough standards for tailpipe emissions from new automobiles, establishing the first nationwide regulation for greenhouse gases.
            • After the decade they've had, Capitol Hill's climate-change skeptics might well feel like polar bears on a shrinking ice floe.
              • The congressional trek toward climate legislation inched forward yesterday as the House Energy and Commerce Committee released a 932-page bill chock-full of allowances and provisions designed to bring together a coalition of lawmakers, industries and environmental groups behind the regulation of...
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