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California’s Underwater Forests Are Being Eaten by the ‘Cockroaches of the Ocean’

in The New York Times

Early on a gray summer Saturday, an unusual assemblage — commercial fishermen, recreational boaters, neoprene-clad divers — gathered for a mission at Albion Cove, a three-hour drive north of San Francisco.

“Our target today is the purple urchin,” said Josh Russo, a recreational fishing advocate who organized the event. “The evil purple urchin.”

Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet (Book)

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For those of us who believe that by buying an organic cotton shirt, or cage-free eggs, or a Toyota Prius (or Chevy Volt for that matter), we’re doing our small part to save the planet, Kendra Pierre-Louis offers a blunt rejoinder in Green Washed.

— Planetizen

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This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

In Popular Science (Part of a four part series).

In 1970, Republican President Richard Nixon signed an executive order creating the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It was a time when pollution made many of our nation's rivers and streams unsafe for fishing or swimming. Back then, New York City's air pollution was so thick that you often couldn't see the city's iconic bridges. Forty-seven years later, there is serious talk of dismantling the agency, or at least slashing its size by two-thirds.

But what does America look like without the EPA?

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