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City Infrastructure Projects Poised to Lose Millions if Earmarks Go the Way of the Dodo (USA, Politico) Drugged-Up Drivers Involved in a Third of Highway Deaths (Transpo Nation) Potential House Science Committee Chair Considers Global Warming a Fraud (Politico) Cancun Beaches Threatened as Climate Talks Unfold (AP, Reuters) NJ Gets $271 Million Bill From Feds for … Continued

By Adam Voiland

8:58 AM EST on December 1, 2010

City Infrastructure Projects Poised to Lose Millions if Earmarks Go the Way of the Dodo (USA, Politico)
Drugged-Up Drivers Involved in a Third of Highway Deaths (Transpo Nation)
Potential House Science Committee Chair Considers Global Warming a Fraud (Politico)
Cancun Beaches Threatened as Climate Talks Unfold (AP, Reuters)
NJ Gets $271 Million Bill From Feds for Aborted ARC Tunnel Work (AP)
Boston, New York Among the World’s Most Walkable Cities (Infrastructurist)
Commuter Transit Benefit on the Brink of Expiration (Fox)
Amtrak to Allow Guns on Board Most Trains (Sacramento Bee)
Bikes v. Electric Cars; Bikes v. Bikes (Atlantic, HuffPost)
Sarah Palin: Obesity a “God-Given” Right? (CBS)

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