Environmental Protection

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• In FutureGen We Trust: While Washington Procrastinates On Global Warming, a Rural Illinois Town Casts its Lot With Clean Coal

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Downtown Mattoon A tour of Mattoon – a central Illinois town with around 18,000 people – can be kind of underwhelming. The town is off the interstate and surrounded by cornfields. There are a few bars, a 24-hour grocery store with the banner “Bob Evans sausage $1.79-a-pound,” a “feed-and-seed” store, ...
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• Meat Packaging Company Fined For Discharging Excess Waste Water

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  By Madhuri DeyNov. 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) According to the sources, Cargill Meat Solutions Corporations had to pay a fine of 200,000 dollars for violating the standards for using clean water in their meat processing factory. They also had to reach an administrative agreement with the United Environmental Protection ...
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• Navy’s Vieques Training May Be Tied to Health Risks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  A federal agency reversed its conclusion that contamination posed no risks to residents in Puerto Rico.
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• Marine & Coastal Access Act a black day for marine environment

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 145
  ForArgyll has recently written about the marine bills working their way through the Parliaments of Westminster and Holyrood. The Marine and Coastal Access Bill is the English and Welsh version which was given Royal Assent yesterday (12th November). If you were to believe the government spin surrounding it you could be ...
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• China:Wind Power Dilemma: Money Blows Away

  
  FiNETIK - Financial Industry Networked Thinking - Asia and Latin America — Authority: 476
  Rapid, government-subsidized expansion of China’s wind power industry has led to excess capacity and investment waste.(Caijing Magazine) A cold front swept across northern China’s Inner Mongolia region in early November, forcing a wind energy farm at Xilin Gol to curtail operations – even as a brisk breeze ...
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• Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  Not being able to find a clean toilet and seeing litter everywhere can spoil the world’s most popular tourist spots: Next year’s Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world’s most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But ...
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• World’s largest public health group calls for global asbestos ban

  
  The Pump Handle — Authority: 428
  by Andrew Schneider, cross-posted from Cold Truth At last, the world’s oldest public health organization has joined the funeral dirge-paced parade to ban asbestos in the U.S.  The 50,000-member American Public Health Association adopted a resolution at its annual meeting this week calling on Congress to ...
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• TVA Gets Permission to Further Pollute Clinch River

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 128
  Its not enough that Tennessees Clinch River was devastated by a toxic spill that dumped 1 billion gallons of coal ash into its waters last December. Now the Tennessee Valley Authority wants to systematically pollute the river (which leads to the mighty Tennessee River) to the tune of one million gallons a day of toxic ...
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• Geothermal Explained for Your Louisville Home

  
  Louisville Homes Blog - Real estate news & advice — Authority: 412
  This article was written expressly for LouisvilleHomesBlog.com by Jay Welker with Allgeier Air so that you can be better informed in all of your housing decisions here in Louisville, Kentucky. The movement of homeowners to “go green” by utilizing geothermal heating and cooling is becoming ever more common. ...
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• California man indicted for issuing fraudulent asbestos certifications

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, California has charged Rogelio Lowe of E&D Environmental Safety Training, Inc. with scheming to defraud employers by issuing certificates to asbestos removal workers without providing them with the proper training and charging their employers for the full cost of ...
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• Sprawl leads to flooding

  
  theCLog — Authority: 490
  Tired of flood warnings every time it rains? Do something about it. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to hear from the public about how stormwater flooding affects you. Click here for more information. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings across the region Wednesday as rain swelled ...
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• Effects of coal ash contamination go beyond health risks

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 666
  When environmental watchdogs in Iowa point out the dangers associated with coal ash disposal , the focus of their fear is usually the health risks associated with contaminated groundwater. The Waterloo South Quarry, used by the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University as a coal ...
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• The Natural Flu Protection Kit

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 525
  With the cold season coming in, expect a lot of people going down with the flu And while we all know of the proper methods to ensure the healthiness of our homes, it is apparent that natural means of making sure that our surroundings are free from germs can be achieved especially if you talk about kits such as this ...
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• Ohio Wants to Use Industrial Poison on Bedbugs at Home

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  The state Department of Agriculture is seeking an emergency exemption that would allow the use of the insecticide propoxur, which is used in commercial buildings.
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• Hypocrisy At The EPA

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 561
  Let me give you a scenario. During the Bush Administration, a couple of government workers create a video challenging one of their policies. Pick any policy. Those workers are told to “remove the clip and edit out some references to their employer” . Imagine the liberal screech that would ensue. Screams of ...
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• Coal Country Dems to White House: Get Your Act Together

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The collision between environmental protection and coal extraction is nothing new to the Appalachian states, which are home to some of the largest coal deposits in the world. But in the middle of an unemployment crisis — and with a new administration showing signs of cracking down harshly on the destructive ...
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• China To Spend CNY1 Billion To Protect Rural Environment

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  Li Yuan, the deputy director of the Ecological Division of Chinas Ministry of Environmental Protection, has disclosed to local media that China will arrange a CNY1 billion special fund this year for environment protection and pollution control in the rural areas of the country.At the 2009 China Environmental NGOs ...
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• Congress Tells EPA to Study Hydraulic Fracturing

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 535
  This piece was originally published by ProPublica . It has been republished here with permission. Learn more about ProPublica . Five years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assured the nation that the technology credited with opening vast new natural gas supplies was safe. Now Congress has ordered the ...
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• Jackson-Madison County Schools in Florida have 19 asbestos-contaminated schools

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  There are 22 buildings within Jackson-Madison County Schools in Florida that are contaminated with asbestos ; 19 of those buildings are schools. Newer buildings within the school system are asbestos-free, as are newer additions to some of the older buildings. The buildings that are contaminated with asbestos, a ...
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• EPA study reveals widespread contamination of fish in U.S. lakes and reservoirs

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 129
  More evidence of what our reliance on fossil fuels has done and continues to do: WASHINGTON – A new EPA study shows concentrations of toxic chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in nearly all 50 U.S. states. For the first time, EPA is able to estimate the percentage of lakes and reservoirs ...
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