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News about the environment, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

California Clean Cars Deal Criticized as Hurting Green Sales Critics say a provision of the Advanced Clean Cars Program could allow automakers to sell fewer environmentally desirable cars in California in coming years.

Disabilities Can Be Workplace Assets In the job market, people with disabilities bring vast experience in coping and adapting ? qualities that help them become valuable employees.

Three States Tell Insurers to Disclose Responses to Climate Change Commissioners in California, New York and Washington State will use a mandatory survey to track intended responses to severe events like wildfires.

Workstation: Building a Bridge to a Lonely Colleague Researchers have found that workplace loneliness hurts both individuals and the entire organization.

WHEELS; California Board Approves Tougher Zero-Emissions Rule California Air Resources Board unanimously approves a program to require 1.4 million zero- and near-zero-emission vehicles on the state's roads by 2025.

Activists Crack China's Wall of Denial About Air Pollution Chinese government has reversed course and begun tracking the most pernicious measures of urban air pollution and has also begun making that information available to the public; change in policy is prompted by citizen activists who bought their own air-quality monitor and posted its daily readings to the Internet. Chart, Photos

CANADIAN SPORT JUGGERNAUT NEEDS WINNING TEAMS Photo of Toronto's Air Canada Centre, the main arena of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which has drawn criticism for its high ticket prices and lackluster teams. Photo

In Brazil, Protection of Amazon Rainforest Takes a Step Back Since Dilma Rousseff was elected president, the government has shifted its stance on the Amazon to side more with agricultural interests.

Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord It is widely thought that the U.N. forum for negotiating international climate change policies is an ungainly mess, but its most recent meeting in South Africa has given the process new life.

Heating Costs The Natural Resources Defense Council responds to a news article.

Study Finds Mercury in More Northeastern Bird Species Dangerously high levels have been detected in Northeastern songbirds as the most toxic form of the heavy metal moves through the food chain.

City Grazing The 60 goats living in the rail yard near Pier 96 at the Port of San Francisco clear brush as fire prevention and offer a green alternative to toxic herbicides.

Chevron Appeals $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador Chevron has filed an appeal with Ecuador?s National Court of Justice to review an order that it must pay $18 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon jungle.

An Energy Supergrid for Europe Faces Big Obstacles The benefits of sourcing clean power supplies are clear, but the political, regulatory and economic barriers to a transnational project are formidable.

Countering Climate Change Without Waiting for a Payoff A proposal to slow global warming would help people in poor countries now, instead of mainly benefiting their descendants.