NYT - Environment
Ground Zero Workers Reach Deal Over Health Claims
A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials.
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Board Extends Deadline for Everglades Land Deal
A vote kept alive a deal to pay $536 million for land from United States Sugar, but officials said they continued to struggle with whether the agency could afford it.
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Winter Games Yield Forecasting Insights
The Vancouver Games forecasting system is part of a program to improve the accuracy of short-term, winter storm forecasting.
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Talks to Address Trade in Tuna and Ivory
Negotiations on protecting endangered species will open in Qatar with tensions over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory.
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Neighbors Oppose Green Label for the Software Mogul Mitch Kapor’s Big House
When the software mogul Mitch Kapor won planning approval for his 10,000-square-foot house in Berkeley, Calif., neighbors were surprised that it will qualify as “green.”
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Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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Planned Electric Rate Increase in Los Angeles May Affect Solar Power
Proceeds from an electric rate increase would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs.
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Panel Will Review U.N. Climate Work
The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.
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China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord
The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement.
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Condor Lays Egg in National Park
Biologists in central California reported finding the first such egg at Pinnacles National Monument in more than a century.
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A Deal to Save the Everglades Could Rescue U.S. Sugar Instead
Florida’s plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.
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Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates
The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.
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After Boom and Bust, Solar Power Has a Place in the Spanish Sun
A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.
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Observatory: Scientists Propose a More Efficient Way to Make Ethanol
Researchers said they found a way to break down lignocellulose, the basic structural material of all plants, to make fuel from crop waste.
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EBay Highlights the Environmental Appeal of Buying Used
EBay, recovering from unprofitable quarters and falling market share, has recast its site to make it more attractive to new kinds of shoppers, like the carbon conscious.
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Fretting About the Last of the Tigers
Could this Chinese Year of the Tiger be the last one with actual tigers still afoot in the world’s wild?
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In Aftermath of Ash Spill, a New Round of Challenges
While the Tennessee Valley Authority’s cleanup has removed much of the ash the arsenic- and mercury-laced muck or its watery discharge has been moving through three states to at least six sites.
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No Endangered Status for the Greater Sage Grouse
The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse was facing extinction but would not be designated as an endangered species for now.
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Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
But a scientist who led the study said it was too soon to say whether the findings suggest the potential for a dangerous release of methane — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide.
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FPL Experiments With Solar Thermal at Gas-Fired Power Plant
A vast project in Florida will be the world’s second-largest solar plant, attached to the nation’s largest fossil-fuel power plant.
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