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Washington's new apple joining a changing industry
2016-02-25 10:36:00| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The apple is a brand new trademarked and focus gro... . In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, Kate Evans, a lead scientist at Washington State University's Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center in Wenatchee, Wash., poses for a photo in a fruit cooler holding a box of Cosm... .
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Washington's legacy Jersey strong | Di Ionno
2016-02-21 19:32:39| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
No disrespect to Abraham Lincoln, FDR or JFK, or the other 40 chief execs, but President's Day started out as Washington's Birthday and should have stayed that way. In fact, it still is, officially.
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Beijing Puts Ball Back in Washington's Court on Climate Change
2015-09-26 03:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When President Obama tried to tackle climate change in his first term, he pushed Congress to limit and put a price on carbon pollution, but the so-called cap-and-trade bill died in the Senate in 2010. Among the chief reasons: Lawmakers from both parties feared that any law to cut greenhouse gas emissions would harm the nations competitiveness compared with China, which was then emerging as the worlds largest polluter. Since then, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates have repeatedly...
The local health effects of Washingtons wildfires
2015-08-27 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Crosscut: This past weekend, the Seattle skyline and crests of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains faded behind a hovering white haze. While the scene was unexpected to anybody new in the area, residents familiar with the seasonal occurrence of summer wildfires collectively sighed and coughed from the understanding that we were in the direct jet stream of the states raging fires, burning just over 200 miles northeast in Okanogan County. Washington is now seeing the largest wildfires in its recorded history,...
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Washington's wildfire season gets off to an early, unprecedented start
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The Sleepy Hollow fire raced down the crisp Sage Hills, straight toward the Broadview neighborhood in the apple capital of the world. Flames shot high into the night, torching 29 homes and causing hundreds of people to flee. Then the fire did something no one here had seen before. Embers flew more than a mile Sunday night, into the hardworking heart of this small city. They ignited four industrial buildings, most involved in fruit packing, at the start of the busy summer agriculture season. The...
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