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• State cancer registry corrects cancer data

  
  The YES! Weekly Blog — Authority: 526
  The NC Central Cancer Registry released a revised report yesterday with corrected disease incidence rates for the areas near the EH Glass dump and the White Street Landfill. The revised study still finds pancreatic cancer rates near the landfill to be significantly higher than expected. As the cancer registrys Karen ...
  13 hours ago

• The Long-Awaited Perry County Coal Ash Suit...

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 138
  ...has been filed, according to The Birmingham News online...alleging the Arrowhead Landfill does not have the proper permit because it is allowed to dispose of solid waste, but there is leachate from the landfill that ends up in a tributary of the Cahaba River. The suit asks the court to halt the shipment of ...
  1 day ago

• The New Pentagon Papers?

  
  The Dignified Rant — Authority: 484
  This could be very entertaining. I eagerly await the stories that mine this data dump, if they are genuine (as early evidence seems to indicate).But I wont believe this signals the end of the Global Warming religion until I see Al Gore selling pamphlets at airports.
  1 day ago

• Nov 21st, R.I. Recycles Day

  
  Green Life Smart Life — Authority: 130
  On November 21 st , from 8am till noon at the Central Landfill: Central Landfill, 65 Shun Pike, Johnston, RI 02919.  The state will be celebrating Rhode Island Recycles Day , they will be accepting many recyclables.  This will include lawn furniture, large plastic toys.  This will be free to all R.I. residents.  ...
  2 days ago

• Destination: World Cup Park, part 2

  
  Chris Backe - AKA Chris in South Korea — Authority: 468
  My last visit to the World Cup Park seemed far too short, yet I spent most of the day there. This time around, I went with a better knowledge of where things were and how they were organized. Across the street from the World Cup Stadium was a large market. Plenty of fish, vegetables, and fruits for the locals or ...
  2 days ago

• Green Moves are Better Moves

  
  Moving News and Relocation Advice — Authority: 129
  Green living is serious business and at the forefront of many consumer and business agendas. Green moving offers the environmentally aware resources and services that are important to your household and your world.There are many different ways to make your move green. The first and easiest way to go green is to avoid ...
  3 days ago

• T-Triple Al

  
  The Dignified Rant — Authority: 484
  Al Gore has visions of a future where our world is on fire and the oceans rise to drown us.His new book on global warming offers us the basic choice, "come with me if you want to live."Actually, I fully expect Gore to start building an ark pretty soon.
  3 days ago

• The Final Check on the Bucket List

  
  The Dignified Rant — Authority: 484
  This is rather creepy:The Swiss government, concerned that Switzerland is becoming a destination for "suicide tourism," wants to tighten its decades-old assisted-suicide law, considered to be the most liberal of its kind in the world.Still, youd think this would have possibilities for the Swisst tourism industry to ...
  4 days ago

• Masters of Their Domain, Apparently

  
  The Dignified Rant — Authority: 484
  Spains birth rate is about half replacement rate.I guess this news makes that statistic a little more understandable:In late October, the regional government of Extremadura in southwestern Spain launched a new sexual-education campaign designed to facilitate the "development of healthy habits, self-esteem and safety." ...
  4 days ago

• Cancer talk at city council

  
  The YES! Weekly Blog — Authority: 526
  Karen Knight of the NC Cancer Registry, along with other state and county researchers, is addressing the city council on findings about the incidence of cancer near the EH Glass and White Street landfills. Knight says her office discovered an error in their report yesterday. In contrast to the reports findings, the ...
  4 days ago

• DEP finds 48 trash trucks violating State Laws in Southeast Pennsylvania

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 604
  The Department of Environmental Protection cited 48 trucks for 64 operational and safety violations during recent inspections at GROWS and Tullytown landfills in Bucks County. The inspections were conducted Wednesday, Nov. 4, and Thursday, Nov. 5, at scale houses that serve Waste Management of Pennsylvania landfills ...
  4 days ago

• Turning dirty diapers into...bicycle helmets?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 807
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Green Consider the disposable diaper. Its part engineering marvel, a mechanism that takes one of the most foul side effects of parenthood and absorbs it into a small, manageable, plastic-wrapped package. But its also part environmental catastrophe. The average baby makes ...
  4 days ago

• Montreal transforms a dump into a park

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Montrealers are enjoying St.Michel Environmental Complex, a former quarry and garbage dump that is a park-in-progress. The site is being transformed from wasteland into a new green park, gone are the trucks, the seagulls and smelly garbage. Currently the park is being capped with building rubble and soil. The park ...
  4 days ago

• Throwing Out Food and Paper Will Be Illegal

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Quebec has taken a long hard look at itself, and decided it doesn’t like what it sees. Its policies simply aren’t working.  Overall waste generated has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, with waste going to landfill rising by over 10% in the same period. One of its key targets was to get 60% of the state’s ...
  5 days ago

• Great News for Joshua Tree National Park!

  
  Michael E. Gordon Photography — Authority: 121
  Joshua Tree National Park The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s rejection of a plan — 20 years in the making — that sought to turn a former iron ore mine near Joshua Tree National Park into the “largest landfill in the United States,” according to the decision. Tuesday’s ...
  5 days ago

• Mobile Phone Recycling – The Environmentally Sound Solution

  
  Best New Cell Phones — Authority: 437
  Have you ever considered mobile phone recycling ? If so then read on as this article will explain all that you need to know to recycle your old mobile phone. There are approximately 50 million mobile phone subscribers in the UK alone! Most of these users tend to upgrade their mobile phones or purchase a newer model ...
  6 days ago

• Nuclear nightmare?

  
  Fremantlebiz - Paul's Letter from Australia — Authority: 129
  My wife Jill felt the need to go to Bunnings yesterday to check out a stash of remaindered sample pots of paint which she’d heard were on sale for 50 cents. I parked next to a black vehicle which I later realised was a Hummer. Yes we have a few idiots on our roads here who think that Hummers represent the pinnacle ...
  6 days ago

• Blasting at the landfill on Monday

  
  Port Reporter Unlimited — Authority: 475
  Please be advised: · There will be blasting commencing at 8am on Monday at the Crow Lane landfill. · This blasting will occur for parts of three (3) days. · This blasting is to enlarge a trench and retention pond area. · There is no anticipated residual affect to the surrounding properties. · ...
  1 week ago

• 20 CCs of Nuance, Stat!

  
  The Dignified Rant — Authority: 484
  I know I lack the nuance gene when I contemplate health care legislation.Sure, I understand that it could be good to improve quality, increase efficiency, and expand access. Those are all fine goals in theory.But as I understand it, the main concern is that there is supposed to be a population of tens of millions who ...
  1 week ago

• County health department: No health risk to residents living near landfill

  
  The YES! Weekly Blog — Authority: 526
  Health Impact of the EG Glass Waste Disposal Site: Report to the Greensboro City Council, November 12, 2009 : "We conclude that there is no health risk to residents living near the EH Glass property and that further investigation, including community surveys, is unwarranted." Some highlights ...
  1 week ago

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