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Recent Climate Study Reveals Good And Bad News
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20.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| OSLO, May 19 (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far... |
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[flenvcenter :: Alternative Medicine]
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Infectious Disease]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Science]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Science]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Medicine]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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More Than Half Of Public Pools Contaminated By Poop Bacteria
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| There's a lot of grossness going on in public pools. A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that more than half of... |
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[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
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Obama's EPA Pick Advances
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, sending the... |
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[flenvcenter :: National]
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[flenvcenter :: Republican]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
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Electric Utilities Top List of U.S. Toxic Water Polluters

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16.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, Ferro Corporation, American Electric Power, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Southern Company top the list of the most hazardous polluters of U.S. surface water, according to a report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch and the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (PERI). read more |
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[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Updated Mercury In Fish Advice Stalled In Health Department, Frustrating Scientists
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Updated federal advice on mercury levels in fish appears to have stalled within the U.S. department of... |
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Granting Corporate America a License to Kill
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16.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Regulations stink, right? Lots of politicians run on promises that they’ll get rid of them to make way for an economic boom.
Well, have you ever considered what our world would look like without regulations? read more |
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[flenvcenter :: Diversity]
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License to Kill
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16.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Regulations stink, right? Lots of politicians run on promises that they’ll get rid of them to make way for an economic boom.
Well, have you ever considered what our world would look like without regulations? read more |
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[flenvcenter :: Ecological Economics]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Ecological Economics]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Diversity]
[flenvcenter :: Diversity]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
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Lead Ammunition and Illegal Poisoning: Further International
Agreements Are Needed to Preserve Vultures and the Crucial Sanitary
Service They Provide
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15.5.2013 |
Environmental Science & Technology: Latest Articles (ACS Publications) |
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Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es401544j  |
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[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
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NRA Admits Ignorance of Basic Facts About Lead Ammo's Lethal Toll on Endangered Condors
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14.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter today to NRA head Wayne LaPierre in response to an unusual request from the gun group seeking information about how lead ammunition poisons endangered Californ read more |
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[flenvcenter :: Arizona]
[flenvcenter :: Gleaning]
[flenvcenter :: Gleaning]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
[flenvcenter :: Hunting and Poaching]
[flenvcenter :: Endangered Species]
[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Arizona]
[flenvcenter :: Hunting and Poaching]
[flenvcenter :: Endangered Species]
[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth
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9.5.2013 |
TreeHugger |
The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people. |
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[flenvcenter :: Slow Food]
[flenvcenter :: Access]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Medicine]
[flenvcenter :: Socially-Responsible Investing]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Slow Food]
[flenvcenter :: Access]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Alternative Medicine]
[flenvcenter :: Socially-Responsible Investing]
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Why more tar sands pipelines will only bring disaster for B.C. and Canada
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9.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Wednesday, May 8, 2013
If American billionaire Richard Kinder, gets his way, oil tanker traffic will increase to some 400 tankers per year through Vancouver's Burrard Inlet.
Canada once had a vibrant manufacturing sector, growing economy and about 20 oil tankers per year passing through Burrard Inlet in B.C., mostly delivering refined products to coastal communities. Today, Canada has a declining manufacturing sector, growing unemployment, and over 70 crude oil tankers per year transiting Burrard Inlet. What happened?
The tar sands happened. Canada took the lure of globalization and raw resource export. Over a decade ago, the world's largest oil companies decided to exploit the black bitumen tar buried under Alberta's boreal forest, and to ship it from Canada with minimal local economic benefit.
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Toxic Benzene Fills Air Weeks After Tar Sands Spill
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8.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
| Tar sands oil seen in local waterways weeks after ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured. (Photo: NWFblogs/flickr) Five weeks after ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured and spewed thousands of barrels of tar sands oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, residents are stuck "on their own" as they suffer from health problems following noxious black cloak that enveloped their neighborhood.
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This Is NOT An Effective Argument Against Expanding Background Checks, Sorry!
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8.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| According to a new study released Tuesday by Pew Research, the gun homicide rate has declined 49 percent since its peak in 1993. Actually, check... |
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[flenvcenter :: Access]
[flenvcenter :: Access]
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Donna Solomon, DVM: Flea and Tick Control: Your Decision
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7.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Do not fall victim to a boastful flea and tick advertising campaign by the manufacturer. Choose the best product for your pet based on your concerns and the advice of your veterinarian. |
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[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
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Cadmium, Mercury and Phthalates—Oh My!
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5.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
Over 5000 children’s products contain toxic chemicals linked to cancer, hormone disruption and reproductive problems, including the toxic metals, cadmium, mercury and antimony, as well as phthalates and solvents. A new report by the Washington Toxics Coalition and Safer States reveals the results of manufacturer reporting to the Washington State Department of Ecology.  read more |
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[flenvcenter :: Chemicals]
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(Still) getting the lead out
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4.5.2013 |
From the Blogs |
When will hunters stop poisoning condors with ammunition? |
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[flenvcenter :: Birds]
[flenvcenter :: Hunting and Poaching]
[flenvcenter :: Birds]
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Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways,
and Effects
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4.5.2013 |
Environmental Science & Technology: Latest Articles (ACS Publications) |
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Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es305071v  |
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[flenvcenter :: Media]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Media]
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Potential Environmental and Human Health Impacts of
Rechargeable Lithium Batteries in Electronic Waste
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3.5.2013 |
Environmental Science & Technology: Latest Articles (ACS Publications) |
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Environmental Science & Technology DOI: 10.1021/es400614y  |
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[flenvcenter :: Media]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Philosophy]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[flenvcenter :: Environmental Philosophy]
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Toxic Metals in Lipstick
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2.5.2013 |
Green Lifestyle and Sustainable Culture News - ENN |
| Toxic Metals in Lipstick |
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[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Lifestyle and Psychology]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
[flenvcenter :: Green Purchasing]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Lifestyle and Psychology]
[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Green Purchasing]
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Toxic Metals in Lipstick
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2.5.2013 |
Environmental News Network |
| Toxic Metals in Lipstick |
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[flenvcenter :: Toxics]
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