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		<title>Activists plan anti-fracking day of action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 21:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of using hydraulic fracturing – “fracking” – to access hard-to-reach oil and natural gas are planning actions Thursday at assemblymembers’ offices around California. Activists organized by MoveOn.org will deliver petitions in 13 Assembly districts, marking the launch of Californians Against Fracking, a coalition of 70 organizations advocating for a ban. “The gutting of Holly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CoCo Supe Gioia named to Air Resources Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown today named Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia to the California Air Resources Board. Gioia, 55, of Richmond, has been a county supervisor since 1999 and served as the board’s chairman in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Earlier, he was in private law practice from 1986 to 1998, and was a legal researcher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters target Zuckerberg at Facebook HQ</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/30/protesters-target-zuckerberg-at-facebook-hq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Begich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters will be marching on Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters tomorrow to protest founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s role in a public policy group that seems to be advocating for construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Activists are angry that Zuckerberg&#8217;s FWD.us group is running a national TV ad praising and featuring pipeline supporter U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark DeSaulnier named &#8216;Regionalist of the Year&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bay Area Council, a public policy group consisting of the region’s 275 largest employers, has named state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier as its inaugural “Regionalist of the Year.” The council called DeSaulnier, D-Concord, a champion of regional cooperation and solutions on issues of transportation, healthcare, economic, housing, land-use planning and environmental protection, among others. “Sen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fremont boy wins big EPA award</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/16/fremont-boy-wins-big-epa-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A seventh-grader from Fremont has been awarded a President’s Environmental Youth Award for his founding of a nonprofit focused on raising kids’ awareness of environmental issues. Established in 1971 and administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the annual award goes to one outstanding project from each of EPA’s ten regions. Projects are developed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-pipeline protesters to target Obama in SF</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/29/anti-pipeline-protesters-to-target-obamas-in-sf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CREDO and other groups intend to protest outside President Obama’s fundraiser next Wednesday evening in San Francisco to send a message that if he’s serious about fighting climate change he must reject the Keystone XL pipeline. They’ll be targeting the $32,500-per-person Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraising dinner that Obama is headlining along with House Minority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Sen. Jerry Hill tapped to chair enviro panel</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/05/state-sen-jerry-hill-tapped-to-chair-enviro-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg has nominated state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, to chair the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality. The nomination – to fill the vacancy created by the abrupt resignation of former chairman Michael Rubio, D-Shafter – will be considered Thursday by the Senate Rules Committee. “During this legislative session, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators say state DTSC will cooperate with probe</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/04/senators-say-state-dtsc-will-cooperate-with-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Department of Toxic Substances Control’s director promised Monday that she’ll work with state Senate investigators to explore claims that the agency hasn’t properly enforced regulations, lawmakers said. Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, said she and state senators Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, and Ricardo Lara, D-Long Beach, met today with DTSC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnold racks up climate change TV series, award</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/arnold-racks-up-climate-change-tv-series-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years after leaving office, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s climate-change work continues &#8211; and continues collecting accolades. Schwarzenegger will co-executive-produce a Showtime documentary series on the human impact of climate change. The “Years of Living Dangerously” series is a collaboration between Hollywood and journalists, delivering first-person accounts of those affected by, and seeking solutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown, Feinstein seek action on gas prices</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/10/07/brown-feinstein-seek-action-on-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein today pushed for action and answers on California’s skyrocketing gas prices. Brown directed the California Air Resources Board to take emergency steps to increase the state&#8217;s gasoline supply and bring down fuel prices by immediately taking “whatever steps are necessary” to let oil refineries to make an [...]]]></description>
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