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Mississippi burning — and flooding: Haley Barbour to be remembered as man who gave his state 90°F temps 5 months a year plus countless Katrinas?
theenergycollective.com - 7/7/2009
Mississippi burning — and flooding: Haley Barbour to be remembered as man who gave his state 90°F temps 5 months a year plus countless Katrinas?
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Over the next few months, senators and other major state political figures will be taking sides on the climate and clean energy bill in front of Congress.  Thanks to the new landmark 13-agency report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States , we now know how those state ...
First Biodiesel Pipeline Starts Operations
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 7/2/2009
First Biodiesel Pipeline Starts Operations
— greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com — A commercial shipment of biodiesel has moved through a pipeline in the United States for the first... time, according to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a pipeline company. (more) First Biodiesel Pipeline Starts Operations

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Hurricane Katrina
nerdylorrin.net - 7/7/2009
Hurricane Katrina
— nerdylorrin.net — Blgd off foundations in Biloxi MS PolesLean-GretnaLA Biloxi, Mississippi and (right) Gretna, Louisiana Interstate 90 St Louis... Bay Bridge in Pass Christian MS I10BetwNewOrleans+Slidell (left) Intersate 90, St. Louis Bay in Pass Christian, Mississippi ... (more) Hurricane Katrina

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Abuse of science and logic by the National Corn Growers Association
theenergycollective.com - 7/6/2009
Abuse of science and logic by the National Corn Growers Association
— theenergycollective.com — The National Corn Growers Association released a report arguing that there is no connection between the use... of nitrogen fertilizers on corn in the Midwestern US and the seasonal “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no point mincing words about what this “analytical white paper”. It is ... (more) Abuse of science and logic by the National Corn Growers ...

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