environmentalists

Hotels and restaurants are filling up with out-of-state workers for the industry. Political and business leaders are looking to train more locals for what may be a decades-long drilling rush.

Still, environmentalists are wary of the costs of the industry's expansion.

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The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a tense day-by-day waiting game for environmentalists in Louisiana.

They track the state's wetlands and a small set of barrier islands. Their continued erosion is considered just as catastrophic as the spill.

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Listen up rich environmentalists! Mexican design collective Pirwi now sells their green design wares at Kirk Gallery. (via Austin Eavesdropper)

President Obama's tougher new fuel efficiency standards bring industry, environmentalists and states together to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions from cars.

But the reductions would represent only a drop in the bucket of what's needed to address global warming.

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