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Not Your Grandpa's RV: This Roving Lab Tracks Air Pollution
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18.5.2013 |
NPR Health Science |
| Atmospheric scientist Ira Leifer installed special air sensors on a camper, then drove from Florida to California, measuring methane levels all along the way. More than 6,000 readings later, he found some noticeable spikes, especially around petrochemical plants and urban areas like Los Angeles. |
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[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Climate change]
[flenvcenter :: Air Pollution]
[irge304 :: Pollution]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
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Doctor: 'We Truly Are Failing The Syrian People'
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18.5.2013 |
NPR: All Things Considered |
| Stephen Cornish of Doctors Without Borders was recently in Syria. He talks to Audie Cornish about how medical personnel are managing to reach patients in the war-torn nation where he says there is a lack of respect for doctors on both sides of the conflict. |
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[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
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Will California Ban Fracking?
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18.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- Efforts to put the brakes on the practice of hydraulic fracturing, often called "fracking," took a step forward in California earlier this... |
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[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
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Will California Ban Fracking?
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- Efforts to put the brakes on the practice of hydraulic fracturing, often called "fracking," took a step forward in California earlier this... |
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[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
[flenvcenter :: Biodiversity]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
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Editorial: It's about safe water
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18.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Opinion |
| Editorial: It's about safe water |
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[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[sattva_1 :: water]
[sattva_1 :: health]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[irge304 :: Solid Waste]
[newstrust :: Solid Waste]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[dharmesh :: Solid Waste]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[irge304 :: Pollution]
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Gross Domestic Product: Grossly incomplete, but we can fix it
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17.5.2013 |
Main Feed - Environmental Defense |
| By Gernot Wagner
Via EDF Voices . This first appeared online in an article posted at ensia.com .
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is broken. Robert F. Kennedy said as much in his first major presidential campaign speech. Simon Kuznets, the father of GDP, acknowledged its shortcomings. GDP is an imperfect indicator of human well-being at best, and outright misleading at worst.
Still, we shouldn’t scrap GDP and start over.
Up to a point, GDP does tell us important facts about people’s lives, livelihoods and aspirations. Living on a dollar a day is miserable no matter how you look at it.
Choking on economic growth, of course, is equally bad. There are a few simple, well-established steps we ought to take to bring GDP closer to where we should be. That, by the way, isn’t “Green GDP” or “green accounting.” It’s honest accounting.
Start with accounting for the true value of natural assets still in the ground. We don’t “produce” coal. We extract it. And the fact that the ton of coal extracted ... |
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Obama Tries Hard To Change The Subject
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening... |
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[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Pedestrians]
[flenvcenter :: Green Economies]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Arizona]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Wetlands]
[flenvcenter :: Pedestrians]
[flenvcenter :: Green Economies]
[flenvcenter :: Green Jobs]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Republican]
[flenvcenter :: Presidential Election]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
[flenvcenter :: Green Jobs]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Republican]
[flenvcenter :: Presidential Election]
[flenvcenter :: Arizona]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Wetlands]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: General]
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Is there an 'I' in sustainability?
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17.5.2013 |
Business Operations | GreenBiz.com |
| Sure, there's no "I" in team, but when it comes to sustainability, what kind of recognition is right for a chief sustainability officer?   |
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[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
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Fracking can be done safely, but will it be?
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17.5.2013 |
Terrorism |
| Fracking Can Be Done Safely, but Will It Be? ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Conservation]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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U.S. government unveils latest version of fracking rules
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17.5.2013 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| The government unveiled its latest version of hotly fought rules for fracking on federal land — 440 million acres nationwide, 20 million in Colorado — trying to protect mountains, forests and prairies from the downside of drilling. |
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[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[demo :: Oil and Gas]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
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Interior issues new drilling rule
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17.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| WASHINGTON ndash Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic-fracturing operations, the Obama administration said Thursday.The new fracking rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry... |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
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Interior Department offers new rules for 'fracking'
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17.5.2013 |
LA Times: Nation |
| Interior Department offers new rules for 'fracking' |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Lileks: The awful truth behind gas that suddenly costs $4.29 a gallon
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17.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Local |
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Natural gas industry has a 'fracking' wastewater problem, study says
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17.5.2013 |
MSNBC |
| Natural gas industry has a 'fracking' wastewater problem, study says |
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[irge304 :: Clean Coal]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[newstrust :: Clean Coal]
[quesoboy :: Influenza]
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[demo :: Oil and Gas]
[demo :: Coal]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[sattva_1 :: water]
[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
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David_Goldstein: A Daughter's Tears: The President's Speech
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| China has recently overtaken the United States as the world's highest carbon emitter. Of course, for any solution to be effective, not only the United States, not only China, but the entire world must get on board. |
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[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Green Jobs]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Green Jobs]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Development]
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Obama Administration Caves To Fracking Industry in New Proposed Rules
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17.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Matthew McFeeley, Attorney, Washington, D.C.:
This afternoon, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released new proposed rules to govern fracking on publicly owned lands managed by the federal government. This includes wild places like National Forests and National Wildlife Refuges. But it also includes... |
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[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environmental Health]
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Obama Administration to Industry: Frac-As-Usual on Public Lands
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17.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Briana Mordick, Staff Scientist, San Francisco:
With the release of its revised draft rules for hydraulic fracturing, BLM signaled to industry that it’s business-as-usual when it comes to oil and gas drilling and fracking on public lands. And it also signaled to the people who live,... |
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[flenvcenter :: National]
[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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New study: fracking hasn't polluted Arkansas water
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17.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new study says natural gas drilling, or fracking, hasn't contaminated drinking water wells in Arkansas but researchers say the geology there is more of a natural barrier to pollution than in other areas where drilling takes place. |
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[flenvcenter :: Impacts]
[flenvcenter :: Pollution]
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Administration Releases New Draft Rules for Fracking on Public Lands
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17.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
New draft rules for fracking on public lands, released by the federal Bureau of Land Management today, would leave drinking water supplies for millions of Americans, as well as millions of acres of wild lands, at risk, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The rules need to be strengthened in a number of ways in order to protect public health and the environment. read more |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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New Interior Department drilling rule relies on industry-sponsored database
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17.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
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[flenvcenter :: Drilling]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[flenvcenter :: National]
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[demo :: Oil and Gas]
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