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Obama Says He Wants Oil Producers to Boost Output

WASHINGTON -- As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy. "We are in a lot of...

Obama Pumps Plan to Develop Renewable Energy

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. "That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil" in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. Obama raises the...

Feeling Green? Buy Paper Made Out of Poo

Finding your desk covered in animal dung doesn't have to be a bad thing. When it's in stationery form, at least. Whenever entrepreneur Michael Flancman talks about his business, there's usually an elephant in the room. That's because he runs the Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Co., a unique, environmentally conscious...

Obama Says New Task Force Will Examine Gas Prices

LOS ANGELES -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to "root out" cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline's surge to $4 a gallon. "We are going to make sure that no one is taking...

Gas Prices Top $4 in Nation's Capital, 5 States

NEW YORK -- Drivers in Washington, D.C., on Saturday joined motorists in five states who are paying more than $4 per gallon for gasoline. The average price for gas in New York could top $4 by early next week. Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois and Connecticut already have pump prices above that mark, according to AAA's...

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02/10/12 US toilet paper use 'helping to wipe out tigers' Source: OneWorld The increasing number of Americans who use Paseo or Livi brands of toilet tissue are contributing to the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest and tiger habitat, finds a World Wildlife Fund report released Wednesday.
02/10/12 Does Gender Equality Have a Place in the Green Economy? Source: Triple Pundit This post was submitted for the United Nations World Environment Day blogging competition sponsored by Treehugger and the United Nations Environment Program ( UNEP ).
02/10/12 US: Zero discharge initiative "should include... Source: just-style.com Plans by six apparel and footwear brands and retailers to eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals from their supply chains by 2020 have been widely praised by a group of stakeholders - but are aiming for a challenging deadline and should have been expanded to include suppliers, they say.
02/09/12 Terry Tamminen: The United States of India Source: The Huffington Post - Business After numerous trips to India and discussions with the leaders of many businesses (large and small), two things are clear.
02/09/12 Craig K. Comstock: Strong Sustainability Source: The Huffington Post In order to achieve sustainability, we need scenarios of where we want to go: not only warnings and plans, but also reports as if we'd already made the transition.