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Obama Administration Plans Solar Push For Western States

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 12.27.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday identified 17 sites in six Western states as prime candidates for solar energy projects on pub...

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Tell Your Senators to Save Our National Parks From Global Warming

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

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Glacier National Park could lose all its glaciers, Joshua Tree National Park all its Joshua trees and Saguaro National Park all its saguaros, according to a new report on climate change from NRDC.

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Older Adults Feel Younger, Healthier In The West: Pew Study

Pew Research Center | Kim Parker | Posted 11.17.2011

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If a latter-day Ponce de Leon were to search for a modern fountain of youth, he'd do well to explore America's West.1 There he'd find the highest conc...

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