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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

The Drain

The Drain is a new weekly roundup of climate and environmental news from Legal Planet.

Environmental journalists everywhere are breathing easier this morning. They made it through Earth Day — one of two insufferable seasons of cliche, inane PR pitches clogging their inboxes. (The other? The 2-week UN Climate Conference each fall.) Environmental advocates are breathing a little easier too, because the White House blinked first in the war of …

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