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Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Study: Fuels from corn waste not better than gas Home sales getting crimped by more than the weather Pipeline delay gives boost to Obama's political base WEATHER BLOG: Spring Has Sprung With Climate Change, Wildfires Getting Worse in the West

Study: Fuels from corn waste not better than gas  Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 10:15 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change. Full Story	Top
Home sales getting crimped by more than the weather  Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 09:01 AM PDT The early-spring sales season for the housing market is looking decidedly tepid. Officials will release monthly sales data this week for new and existing homes, and economists polled by MarketWatch expect ... Full Story	Top
Pipeline delay gives boost to Obama's political base  Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 07:03 AM PDT By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The latest delay to a final decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will reinforce a White House strategy to energize President Barack Obama's liberal-leaning base before fall elections in which Democrats risk losing control of the U.S. Senate. Environmentalists, worried about the project's effect on climate change, have put enormous pressure on the president to reject the pipeline from Canada's oil sands, staging demonstrations outside the White House and protests in states where he travels. A decision to approve it now could have prompted that vocal group, which was instrumental in electing Obama in 2008 and 2012, to sit out the November 4 congressional elections. The State Department's announcement on Friday that it would give government agencies more time to study the project was seen by strategists from both parties as a move to prevent that and boost Obama in the eyes of his supporters. Full Story	Top
WEATHER BLOG: Spring Has Sprung  Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 06:40 AM PDT Full Story	Top
With Climate Change, Wildfires Getting Worse in the West  Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 06:22 AM PDT Across the western United States, wildfires grew bigger and more frequent in the past 30 years, according to a new study that blames climate change and drought for the worsening flames. "It's not just something that is localized to forest or grasslands or deserts," said lead study author Phil Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah. These fire trends are very consistent with everything we know about how climate change should impact fire in the West," Dennison told Live Science. The number of fires jumped by seven per year since 1984, and fires burned an additional 90,000 acres (36,000 hectares) each year, according to the study, published online April 4 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Full Story	Top

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