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Caught in the Act: Malibu's Dirty Little Secret Cleaned Up (VIDEO)

Kathy Eldon | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Protection, Visions, John Sibert, Park, Malibu, Legacy, Pollution, Susan Nissman, Paul Herzog, Surfrider, Friendly, Environmental, Creative Visions Foundation, Legacy Park, Stormwater, Kathy Eldon, Foundation, Surfrider Foundation, Runoff, Creative, Ocean, Gardens, Clear Water Protection, Ocean Friendly Garden, Disinfection, Mayor, Ecological Threat, Run Off, Toxic, Irrigation, Polluted Stormwater, Environmental Project, Impact News

The glamorous city of 13,000 is now leading the way in stopping toxic stormwater and chemical-laden urban runoff from destroying its glamorous coastline.

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Chicago Runoffs Feature Limited Turnout

John V. Santore | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: Politics, Runoff, Alderman, Chicago Politics, Chicago Elections, Aldermanic Races, Chicago, Chicago News

14 Chicago wards hosted an aldermanic runoff on Tuesday, April 5th, determining close to a third of the City Council's composition. On average, voter ...

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City Council Upheaval: Fourteen Aldermanic Races Headed For Runoffs

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago City Council, Rhymefest, Ameya Pawar, Chicago Runoff, Chicago, Illinois, Runoff, Chicago Aldermanic Runoffs, Chicago Aldermen, Chicago News

The City Council was sure to see some serious upheaval this election cycle, and the competitiveness of the fights for alderman is showing in tonight...

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A Dozen Threats to Your Water on the 38th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Sewage, Pesticides, Toxics, Agriculture, Pollution, Water Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Precautionary Principle, Stormwater, Clean Water Action, Climate Change, Clean Water Act, Fertilizers, Coal Ash, Runoff, Green News

Pollution prevention, efficiency, conservation, reuse, doing things locally and in a distributed and decentralized manner are all core principles for moving forward with water and other natural resources.

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Heal the Bay Helps Beaches Year Round

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heal the Bay, Litter, Coastal Cleanup Day, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Cigarette Butts, Runoff, Volunteers, Los Angeles News

If everyone took a trash bag and a plastic glove with them to the beach, we could help the ocean for 15 minutes before frolicking in the surf and sand the rest of the day.

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Farmers May Return To Harsh Herbicides, Chemicals To Battle Roundup Resistant Weeds

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Weeds, Roundup, Cotton, Agriculture, Herbicides, Superweeds, Monsanto, Agent Orange, 2 4-D, Dicamba, Runoff, Conventional Farming, Resistant, Wildlife, Green News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer tha...

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AFL-CIO Accuses Blanche Lincoln Of 'Going Native' In D.C.

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Primary, Primary Lincoln, Lincoln Mailer, Bill Halter, Arkansas Primary, Mailer Arkansas, Lincoln Native, Afl-Cio, Primary Election Arkansas, Aflcio Mailer, Runoff, Blanche Lincoln, Video, Politics News

As the Arkansas Democratic Senate primary begins early voting for the runoff election, a major union backer of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is distributing pa...

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NC-Sen: Ken Lewis Endorses Elaine Marshall

Mike Nellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elaine Marshall, Cal Cunningham, Nc-Sen, Runoff, Momentum, Richard Burr, Ken Lewis, Politics News

Former U.S. Senate candidate Ken Lewis has thrown his enthusiastic and full support behind Secretary of State Elaine Marshall in the North Carolina Senate race.

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Scott Lee Cohen Shows the Need for Runoffs in Primary Elections

Dan Johnson-Weinberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Runoff, Art Turner, Republican Primary, Democratic Primary, Bill Brady, Scott Lee Cohen, Kirk Dillard, Election Reform, Voting Reform, Election, Voting, Chicago News

Scott Lee Cohen's 26% victory in a six-man race has shown the danger of our plurality elections. When anyone can win with 26% of the vote... anyone can win.

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Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found In Drinking Water

news.nationalgeographic.com | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Environment, Runoff, Water Pollution, Water, Green News

For instance, thyme and sage spike during Thanksgiving, cinnamon surges all winter, chocolate and vanilla show up during weekends (presumably from par...

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Abdullah Withdraws From Afghan Election

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, White House, Voter Fraud, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Afghan Election, Elections, Military, Nato, Runoff, Un, US, Stanley McChrystal, World News

President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....

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Taliban Claims That Canceled Afghan Election Proves Its Success

AP | ROBERT H. REID and KATHY GANNON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Kabul, White House, Obama, Taliban, Afghan Election, Insurgency, Runoff, Un, Counterinsurgency, Haiti Earthquake, World News

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his tw...

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Karzai Appears Set To Agree To Runoff In Afghan Election

New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and HELENE COOPER | Posted 05.25.2011

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai appears set to concede as early as Tuesday that he fell short of a fi...

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Karzai Rules Out Afghan Power Share Before Afghan Election Runoff

Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Voter Fraud, Afghanistan War, Karzai, Afghanistan, Kabul, Obama, Election Commission, Election News, Hamid Karzai, Afghan Election, Runoff, Iec, Un, US, World News

President Hamid Karzai's team shifted aggressively into campaign mode Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a power-sharing deal with challenger A...

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Karzai Effectively Handed 2nd Term After Abdullah Drops From Afghan Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, White House, Afghanistan War, Karzai, Troops, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Axelrod, Power Share, Kabul, Voter Fraud, Obama, Hamid Karzai, Afghan Election, Nato, Clinton, Abdullah, Mcchrystal, Runoff, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan Election, Un, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...

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Vanishing Coral Reefs (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Nature, Biodiversity, Runoff, Coral Bleaching, Pollution, Coral Reefs, Ecotourism, Climate Change, Green News

In honor of the underwater meeting that the Maldives' Cabinet held on Saturday to raise awareness about the threat of climate change, HuffPost Green t...

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Progressive Landslide

Dan Cantor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Liu, Runoff, Working Families Party, Bill De Blasio, New York City, Mark Green, David Yassky, Third Parties, Public Advocate, New York City Comptroller, New York News

I speak for thousands of Working Families Party members when I say that we are thrilled to have played a part in the victories of John Liu and Bill de Blasio.

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Two Ways Of Looking At New York's Runoff Election

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Runoff, Working Families Party, Mayor Bloomberg, Runoff Voter Turnout, Bill De Blasio, John Liu, Runoff, WFP Runoff, Mark Green, New York News

The Working Families Party wants New York to believe that it can make or break a Democrat running in a tough primary, and that therefore everybody had better treat their issues, and opinions, with extreme respect.

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Afghan Election: Pressure Mounts For Karzai To Strike A Deal

The Observer | Declan Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Power-Share, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Afghan Election Commission, U.S. Troops, Power-Sharing, Afghanistan War, Recount, Election Monitors, Runoff, Islamabad, U.N., Afghanistan Election, Taliban, Ballots, Voter Fraud, World News

Five US soldiers were among dozens killed in a wave of violence in Afghanistan as pressure grew on President Hamid Karzai last night to strike a power...

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Feds to Release Plan to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

Nancy Stoner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stormwater, Nrdc, Water, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Runoff, Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, Green News

The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.

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Karzai Declared Winner of Next Month's Runoff

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Hamid Karzai, Runoff, Andy Borowitz, Octomom, Afghanistan, Balloon Boy, Comedy News

In a stunning victory, Afghan president Hamid Karzai today was declared the winner of the runoff election scheduled to take place November 7.

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Oklahoma Attorney General Takes on Big Poultry, Highlighting Unsustainability of Industrial Agriculture

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Farming, Waterways, Oklahoma, Agricultural Pollution, Drew Edmondson, Food Safety, Runoff, Pollution, Industrial Agriculture, Cafos, Dead Zones, Green News

I needn't remind you that Oklahoma is a stronghold for climate change deniers like Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe. But Oklahoma could be poised to redeem itself, taking on the unsustainability of industrial agriculture.

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Political Parties Are Not "Checks" Or "Balances"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 60-Vote, Pardon, House, Impeachment, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Executive, Legislative, Democrat, Filibuster, Chambliss, Majority, Democrats, 2008 Election, President, Election, Checks and Balances, Politics, Constitution, Senator, George Washington, Political Party, Chris Weigant, Party, Branch, Georgia, Balance of Power, Runoff, Jim Martin, Saxby Chambliss, Separation of Powers, Senate, Filibuster-Proof, Politics News

I'm not worried about whether checks and balances will disappear if Republicans don't have more than 40 seats in the Senate. True checks and balances are more fundamental than party affiliation.

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Election 2008 Odds and Ends -- Waiting for Missouri and Alaska, Pro-Marijuana Initiatives and More...

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice President, Vote Count, Ted Stevens, Ballot, Begich, Marijuana, Washington, Mail-In, Barney Frank, Dea, Provisional, Joe Biden 2008, Oregon, Medical Marijuana, Bilingual Education, Decriminalization, Mccain, Obama, Campaign, Sewage Plant, Missouri, President, Sarah Palin, English, Mark Begich, Stevens, Schedule I, Show Me the Votes, Dog Racing, Schedule II, Runoff, Saxby Chambliss, Laura Egerdal, Election 2008 Coverage, John McCain, Alaska, Assisted Suicide, Chambliss, 2008 Elections, 08, Election Results, 2008 Election, Official Language, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Certified, Decriminalize, Vote, Palin, Barack, 2008 Presidential Race, Georgia, San Francisco, George W Bush, Recount, Absentee, Doctor, Jim Martin, Margin, Gay Marriage, Politics News

We have had a virtual news blackout on what is going on in the two states we're waiting for -- Missouri's presidential results, and Alaska's senatorial results. Here is what I managed to find out.

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