Tag: Clean Air Act
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Nation & World
How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement
Denis Hayes remembers how he dropped out of Harvard Kennedy School in 1970 to help pull together a novel idea: a nationwide rally called Earth Day.
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Nation & World
When is the price right?
Cuicui Chen, who received her Ph.D. in Public Policy, says her research underscores the importance of drawing upon accurate beliefs when making market-based decisions.
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Nation & World
‘Warming hole’ delayed climate change
Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States — that is, a cold patch where the effects of global warming were temporarily obscured.
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Nation & World
America’s Eden that wasn’t
A new history of science course on the environment moves past the fictions of an unspoiled earlier time of discovery and settlement.
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Nation & World
The EPA at 40
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that strong Republican gains in November’s election do not mean there is a public mandate to roll back EPA protections.