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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.19/clean-air-regulations-protect-park-views-by-targeting-coal-plants">        <title>Clean air regulations protect park views by targeting coal plants</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.19/clean-air-regulations-protect-park-views-by-targeting-coal-plants</link>        <description>The Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to reduce haze from air pollution near national parks and wilderness; some coal-fired power plants are cleaning up their act and others will shut down.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>viewshed</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA Region 8</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal-fired power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Juan Generating Station</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Boardman Power Plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Xcel Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>utility companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Four Corners Power Plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>smoke from wildfires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Class 1 visibility</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>haze</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sequoia-Kings Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shiprock</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western air quality</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Protection Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joshua Tree National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>selective catalytic reduction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mesa Verde</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Class 1 airsheds</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-15T17:48:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-foul-air-outside-my-window">        <title>The foul air outside my window</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-foul-air-outside-my-window</link>        <description>A small -- and impoverished -- tribe in Nevada suffers from the health impacts of a nearby pollution-spewing coal-fired power plant.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>William Anderson </dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>asthma</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reid Gardner power plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ozone levels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>particulate pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moapa River Indian Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lung disease</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moapa Band of Paiutes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>carbon emissions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-10-25T20:45:06Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/this-earth-day-its-all-about-the-air">        <title>This Earth Day, it's all about the air</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/this-earth-day-its-all-about-the-air</link>        <description>If you can take a nice deep breath and enjoy a clear blue sky, thank the Clean Air Act.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tim Lydon</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earth Day</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>greenhouse gases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democrats</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-04-19T18:10:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/only-40-years-ago-the-earth-got-its-day">        <title>Only 40 years ago, the Earth got its day</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/only-40-years-ago-the-earth-got-its-day</link>        <description>Earth Day, which was first celebrated 40 years ago, was largely created by Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin who fought hard for environmental laws.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Tim Lydon</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wisconsin senators</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gaylord Nelson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earth Day</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democratic politicians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wilderness Act</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-04-13T17:53:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/mountains-of-mercury">        <title>Mountains of mercury</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/mountains-of-mercury</link>        <description>The EPA has failed to regulate the mercury discharged from cement plants like the one in Durkee, Ore.  </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jeremy Miller</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>mercury</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Conservation League</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Portland cement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Justin Hayes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ash Grove cement plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>methymercury</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:14:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-poisoned-montana-town-gets-its-shot-at-justice-1">        <title>A poisoned Montana town gets its shot at justice</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-poisoned-montana-town-gets-its-shot-at-justice-1</link>        <description>The W.R. Grace executives whose company poisoned Libby, Mont., with asbestos from a vermiculite mine finally meet their victims face-to-face in a Montana courtroom.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andrea Peacock</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>asbestos poisoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>asbestos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>asbestosis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>courtroom trials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>vermiculite mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Les Skramstad</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>corporate irresponsibility</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gayla Benefield</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lung cancer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>W.R. Grace &amp; Co.</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:45Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16149">        <title>States tighten rules, challenge feds to follow</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16149</link>        <description>The state of California pioneered pollution-control
efforts decades ago in response to L.A. smog, and today, the
Western states are hoping to set the course for national action on
climate change</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Air</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State
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                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Los Angeles smog</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western governors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state legislatures</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal government</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution control</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>greenhouse gas emissions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arnold Schwarzenegger</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted Kulongoski</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Janet</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15262">        <title>California's farmers ditch dirty diesel pumps</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15262</link>        <description>California’s two largest utility companies are
encouraging farmers to switch from polluting diesel irrigation
pumps to electric ones</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>J.M. McCord</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Irrigation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utilities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific Gas and Electric</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern California Edison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California Public Utilities Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>irrigation
pumps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>diesel</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15258">        <title>Bush's second-term shake-ups</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15258</link>        <description>Some of the less-publicized political appointments of
George W. Bush’s second term will have huge effects on the
West. Meet the people who will direct the EPA and the departments
of Energy, Agriculture and the Interior.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Appointed Officials</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Leavitt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>American Association
for the Advancement of Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Eric Schaeffer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental
Integrity Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Superfund</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water
Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Spencer Abraham</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stephen Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kei
Koiz</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15167">        <title>Brace yourselves for the counterrevolution</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15167</link>        <description>Don’t worry so much about what President Bush will
do to the environment; worry instead about the three new justices
he might put on the Supreme Court</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roe v.
Wade</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas Ginsberg</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Randy Barnett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Constitution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>right
wing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservative judges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>End</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/261/14337">        <title>West Coast states tackle global warming</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/261/14337</link>        <description>Outgoing California Gov. Gray Davis is working with Oregon
Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Washington Gov. Gary Locke on a regionwide
plan for slowing greenhouse gas emissions</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Puanani Mench</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>greenhouse gas emissions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gray Davis</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gary Locke</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted Kulongoski</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Protection
Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14304">        <title>Clearing the air</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14304</link>        <description>California farmers have long been exempt from the Clean
Air Act, but that may change, as legislators and activists tackle
the health and environmental problems linked to agriculture in the
San Joaquin Valley</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cosmo Garvin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Joaquin Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>agriculture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California farmers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sen. Dean Florez</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>asthma</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air
quality</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Central Valley</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T10:13:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15873">        <title>Oil and gas drilling clouds the West's air</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15873</link>        <description>Air pollution from oil and gas drilling is on the increase
in the Rocky Mountain West, and environmentalists and energy
companies are trying to prevent it from getting any worse</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>gas-processing plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Regional</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air Partnership</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air quality</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil fields</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sulfur dioxide emissions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonah Field</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air Pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>acid rain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nitrogen oxide</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Patrick Cummins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Outdoor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coun</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:27Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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