Eco-News Roundup: Wednesday, September 9

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| Wed Sep. 9, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

Here's what's Blue Marble-ish in our other blogs (and around the web) today:

The buck stops here: Used to be you could make a living working a facotory job in Janesville, Wisconsin. Then GM went bust. Now the town is left to pick up the pieces.

Cautious optimism: Why Kevin Drum agrees with TNR's Jon Cohn on the state of health care reform.

Earth in the balance: Researchers find that the benefits of the Waxman-Markey climate bill outweigh the drawbacks 9-to-1. [Treehugger]

Sun share: Meet the families who bought into the country's first solar farm co-op. [Wall Street Journal]

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