EPA Region IX Administrator Jared Blumenfeld (blue shirt and blue jacket) addressing crowd, including Kettleman City mothers holding pictures of their infants (Amy Balkin, Greenaction)
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Jeff Young, the host of Public Radio International's Living on Earth, helps us evaluate just how different President Obama's environmental policies are from his predecessors.
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bpa's: read a piece on bpa's in the wsj 10/30/2010, written by jennifer c. dooren "regulators turn cautious on bisphenol a", it might make your reporting a little less biased. thanx. c.
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