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• environmental news story sunday

  
  skippy the bush kangaroo — Authority: 556
  our weekly look into stories that are of import...but you might not have seen in or on your local infotainment delivery system(s). sounding the trumpet. - it takes a lot to frighten albertha hasten, a campaigner for poor citizens of louisiana, and fellow african-americans, who suffer disproportionately from ...
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• The Face of Coal Pollution

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 580
  This is Maximiliano Calcano. He is 2 years old. He has no arms because an American power company is dumping coal ash in his neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Birth defects are rampant in his neighborhood. He has no arms because we as a nation have decided a) to make coal the dominant part of our power supply and ...
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• Energy ABCs: Playing Americans for Fools

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 137
  The nation as a whole is being put at risk for lack of access to our own vast energy reserves, coal, oil, and natural gas, as well as nuclear power that will be needed to reverse the present recession, unemployment, and the ability to grow our way back to prosperity.
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• Military Operations Begin on Venezuela’s Western Border to Fight Drug Trafficking

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Venezuela has announced the expansion of military operations along its western border in order to fight drug trafficking and protect a recently discovered reserve of coltan from illegal mining. In what is titled Operation Blue Gold, 15,000 Air Force, Army, and Navy personnel will protect the coltan reserve, which ...
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• Busy coal corridor makes way for excursion train

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  Todays arrival of an Amtrak excursion train from Roanoke, Va., is creating excitement in Bluefield, but operating a passenger train on the Norfolk Southern mainline from between the two cities is made especially challenging due to the incredible volume
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• Anglo Coal workers march

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  Mineworkers from Anglo Coals Mpumalanga operations marched to the company headquarters in Johannesburg on Saturday to voice their grievances, the National Union of Mineworkers said. Among demands listed on a memorandum handed over to company CEO Ben
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• Technical Divers Explore the HMS Victoria

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 428
  Report by Leigh CunninghamOn the 19th of September 2009 a team of British, German, Dutch and Lebanese technical divers set out on the quest to dive the HMS Victoria off the coast of Lebanon.The re-named HMS Victoria was the flagship of the British fleet in the Mediterranean during that late part of the 19th century. ...
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• U.S. Firms Coal Ash Blamed For Dominican Towns Birth Defects

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  When I was pregnant, I was dizzy, vomiting and could barely walk, said Maximilianos mother, Anajai Calcano, 20. My tooth cracked and fell out. Then my baby was born like that, without arms. Nothing like that had ever happened here before. By
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• West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection: 2/3 of Coal Ash Damns Need Repairs

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 497
  Ken Ward Jr. reports on the wonders of coal : Nearly two-thirds of the coal-ash dams across West Virginia might need repairs, and a quarter of them are ranked as being in poor or unsatisfactory condition, according to a report released Thursday by the state Department of Environmental Protection. DEP inspectors ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 433
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Coal ash from U.S. blamed for Dominican towns birth defects

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach, Fla., brought the black dusty residue to the province of Samaná, and three years since the ash was cleaned up. Several civil lawsuits and criminal cases later, just when everyone thought it was over, the other shoe has dropped. A civil lawsuit filed ...
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• VIDEO: Coal ash from U.S. blamed for Dominican towns birth defects

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 669
  By GottaLaff This is excruciating to watch, but its a must: Villagers in the Dominican Republic say coal waste from a U.S. power plant has caused birth defects. [...] It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach, Fla., brought the black dusty residue to the province of Samaná, and three ...
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• Clean Coal in the Dominican Republic

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 497
  Clean Coal is awesome : It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach brought the black dusty residue to the province of Samaná, and three years since the ash was cleaned up. Several civil lawsuits and criminal cases later, just when everyone thought it was over, the other shoe has dropped. A civil ...
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• Channeling Clean Coal through Penguins

  
  Global Warming: Change Starts Here — Authority: 99
  Poor taste. That’s what I call the energy industry’s decision to run TV ads about “clean coal” during a nature documentary about Emporer penguins of Madagascar. During the November 6 screening of “March of the Penguins,” on The Weather Channel, were several advocacy TV spots paid for by the American ...
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• My Grandpas Valuable Tips To Follow If Shopping For Outdoor Wood Burning Fireplaces

  
  Thar She Goes — Authority: 160
  The sight of fireplaces can bring back sweet and nostalgic reminiscences of families gathering around the front room when the weather is too cold for outside activities. Fireplaces are definitely purposeful but most often, fireplaces are also assembled for cultured functions. People began to comprehend the ...
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• NUM marches to Anglo Coal offices

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  Anglo Coal CEO, Ben Magara. Photo: Financial Mail MINEWORKERS from Anglo Coals Mpumalanga operations marched to the company headquarters in Johannesburg today to voice their grievances, the National Union of Mineworkers said. Among demands listed on a
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• Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, Endangering Local Lives -Video

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 493
  Appalachia’s West Virginians unite to stop Massey Energy Mountain Top Removal In West Virginia, Massey Energy has begun blasting operations on Coal River Mountain despite deep opposition from environmental groups and critics of mountaintop removal mining. The Brushy Fork impoundment is an enormous retention ...
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• Virtual Realty Training System From Invensys to Help Advance Clean Coal Power for U.S. Department of EnergyEYESim Solution Is Centerpiece of New IGCC Power Plant Program

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  - Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the process and manufacturing industries, announced on November 3 that the United States Department of Energy (DOE) will utilize the
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• Patent covering use of enzyme for carbon capture at coal fired power plants is fourth new patent received by CO2 Solution in 2009

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  - CO2 Solution Inc. (CO2 Solution or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has received a new United States patent, 7,596,952 - Process and a plant for recycling carbon dioxide emissions from power plants into useful carbonated species. The
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• Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
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