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Stephen de Tarczynski for Inter Press News reports on Earth Hour 2008: "This year's Earth Hour - like the inaugural event last year - revolves around the simple action of participants turning off lights and appliances, instead of leaving them on standby, for an hour from 8 p.m. on March 29."
EPA Chief Bides Time on Court's Emissions Order
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Janet Wilson for The Los Angeles Times reports on a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency that has infuriated Democratic lawmakers: "EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson has shelved his agency's findings that greenhouse gases are a danger to the public, and on Thursday told Congress that he will initiate a lengthy public comment period about whether such emissions are a risk before responding to a US Supreme Court order."
Major Grower Ends Crop, Lacking Workers
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Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press, writes: "Saying the nation's immigration system is broken, Pennsylvania's largest grower of fresh-to-market tomatoes announced Monday he will no longer produce the crop because he can't find enough workers to harvest it."
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