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Weekly Web Roundup
  • A federal court acts to protect more than 110,000 acres of Utah wilderness. Robert Redford shares the good news on NRDC's Greenlight blog and on Huffington Post.  
  • Joe Romm and Andrew Revkin respond to Obama's Inaugural address. Read Switchboard posts about the change in Washington here.
  • On Grist, Bill McKibben reflects on eight years of Bush's inaction and the challenges that poses for Obama (for a timeline of Bush's environmental legacy, see NRDC.org).
  • Carbon prices drop as global downturn continues.
  • Eric Schmidt says investing in renewable energy is cheaper than nuclear.  Watch the video on Treehugger.
  • President Obama halts the Bush administration's last-minute rules.
  • Salon explores the conflict between building industrial solar installations in the Mojave Desert and protecting the ecosystem.
  • California asks EPA to review the car emissions waiver.
  • Treehugger explains the "naturally-raised" label for meat.
  • Fast Company shares an innovative idea: lasers that project traffic lanes around bikers as they ride.
  • Credit crunch and technology problems slow growth of solar industry.
  • Green Wombat writes about layoffs in the wind industry.
  • Study shows that cleaner air has added nearly five months to the average life span in the United States. NRDC's Kim Knowlton discusses the study on NBC's Nightly News.
  • PepsiCo tries to figure out Tropicana's carbon footprint.

Think I missed anything really great out there this week? Feel free to share it in the Comments section.

Tags:
biking, bushrecord, carbon, carbonfootprint, cleanair, emissions, nuclear, obama, renewableenergy, robertredford, solar, utahwilderness, wind

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