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Canada Leads Way on Nutrition With New Food Guide

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Canada’s new Food Guide incorporates input from 20,000 Canadians and gives its neighbors to the south a whole new set of best practices to chew on…

EarthTalk

What Will Be Obama’s Environmental Legacy?

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Barack Obama’s environmental accomplishments include helping broker the Paris climate accord & adding 500+ million acres to America’s conservation portfolio.

EarthTalk

Where do the leading Democratic candidates for President stand on environmental issues?

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Dear EarthTalk: Where do the leading Democratic candidates for president stand on environmental issues? —Leslie Mazur, Hauppauge, NY President Obama, with his recent push to join the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will be a tough act to follow on the environment. But each […]

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Obama: Climate Change Hurts Health

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Former White House correspondent Bob Deans talks about President Obama’s new push to protect people from health threats posed by climate change. The new effort aims to study climate impacts on health issues such as asthma, infectious diseases, and heat-related illnesses…

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Amtrak or Bust: Why Isn’t Green Rail Travel Bigger in the U.S.?

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In the spring of 2009, President Obama allocated $8 billion of his stimulus package toward development of more high-speed rail lines across the country, citing the need to reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on foreign oil.