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• Thank You for Vacationing in North Dakota

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 422
  Hazardous Waste Site Map: Posted in Life Tagged: America the Beautiful, Hazardous Waste, Toxic waste, Waste not want not
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• Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  By Gbemisola Olujobi The port of Lagos in Nigeria receives about 400,000 used computers every month, out of which only one in four is useful. The rest end up in landfills, garbage dumps and, in a curious twist, as resources for scammers. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 6, 2009 Dems Make ...
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• Coke going colorless: How could a naked can help the planet?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  Designer Harc Lee has some innovative and cool ideas when it comes to saving the planet and making that small contribution towards a future that could eventually make a world’s difference. One of the simplest and most attractive ideas that he has come up with is to profess the usage of softdrink cans in a ...
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• The coming natural gas boom is not all its fracced up to be

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Energy Please pardon my poor punning, and let me explain: "Fraccing" (rhymes with "cracking") is the oil and natural gas industrys an informal contraction for the technology called hydraulic fracturing , in which water (and in some cases, a chemical mixture) is pumped deep underground to fracture ...
  3 days ago

• Ivory Coast: Toxic Waste Payout Blocked

  
  AfricanLoft — Authority: 124
  Thousands of victims of a toxic sludge dumping scandal could fail to receive their share of a 45 million dollar compensation package due to corruption in Ivory Coast, a British lawyer claims. Tens of thousands of people fell ill after a contractor for Dutch oil trader Trafigura dumped 500 tonnes of toxic waste in ...
  6 days ago

• Phosphate mining continues a toxic tradition

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 534
  If Simplot goes ahead with plans for a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho, the Stewart familys long ranching lifestyle will never be the same.
  1 week ago

• will i get an economic stimulus package in may?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 434
  I’m 23, a student, and have filed a return this year with the fed. government. My parents claim me as a dependent still and I was wondering if I should expect to get a refund from the economic stimulus pack or not. I would imagine I don’t qualify.Related ArticlesEconomic stimulus money could breathe [...]
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• Shipwreck - an ecological disaster for southern Madagascar

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 426
  Faux Cap, Madagascar – Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment, according to a study supported by WWF.The Turkish vessel Gulser Ana grounded near Faux Cap in the [...]
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• Chevron Accused of Tainting Ecaudor Toxic Waste Trial

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 545
  Associated Press : Videos posted online by US oil company Chevron purporting to show rampant corruption among Ecuadoran officials are actually a set-up meant to taint an ongoing trial against the energy giant, an attorney in the case alleged. “By releasing the videos, in my opinion Chevron is trying to taint a ...
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• EPA to Regulate Mercury Emissions, May Tag Coal Ash ‘Toxic’

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering labeling coal ash as toxic waste, while the agency moves to regulate mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a 230-page report on coal ash that comes 10 months after a spill of 1.1 billion ...
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• Annoy your neighbors, get rich on residuals

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 155
  Yes, we have no bananas Freddy Durante, he of the proposed cellphone tower overlooking North Mianus School, has once again slashed the price of his house at 334 Palmer Hill and it’s down to $923,000 from an original asking price of $1.3 million.  No mention on the listing whether Verizon is still willing to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinas Pollution in Photos

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 139
  Need I say more… http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/  
  2 weeks ago

• JOHN MCCAIN WANTS TO BLOCK FCCS NET NEUTRALITY RULES

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  This is my reply to http://disq.us/27r8s on "John McCain Wants to Block FCCs Net Neutrality Rules" ( Stumble It or not ) John McCain being older has nothing to do with it. The real point is that John fairly recently admitted knowing next to nothing about the Internet. What he did was listen to those who got ...
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• Greening The Product Life Cycle

  
  T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer — Authority: 124
  Time was when the life cycle of a product consisted of completely disconnected phases. It was designed, manufactured, shipped, sold, used, and discarded with little or no connection between these activities. That era is coming to an end. We’re entering a new era where every life cycle activity will be coordinated ...
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• Magic Garden

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 644
  Remember these guys ? They’re like the equivalent of Transformers for individuals with a softer, more fanciful imagination. Those with sharp memories will recall that the Magic Garden kits included little cardboard cutouts of mountains, trees and grass (treated with a mysterious solution) that you could set up ...
  3 weeks ago

• Damage to toxic ship Platinum II raises concern

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Gandhinagar, Oct 19 (ANI): The hull of the Platinum-II ship, allegedly carrying toxic waste, was on Monday damaged, following which, it was grounded off the Alang Port in Gujarat. Rescue efforts are on under the supervision of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) to save the people on board.There are reportedly nine ...
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• H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Production Slows

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  The Centers for Disease Control(CDC) believes that up to 12 million fewer doses of H1N1 vaccine than expected will be available by month’s end. Availability will be limited for the next week or two due to manufacturing delays. The CDC had hoped 40 million doses would be available by end of October, but this is very ...
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• An Appeal for a Real and Comprehensive Approach to Health Care Reform

  
  The Political Voices of Women — Authority: 98
  While the US may be moving one step closer to health care reform with the p assage of the Baucus Bill by the Senate Finance Committee, it is clear that a very important element in the health care discussion is being overlooked. What is making Americans so sick? Health care costs wouldn’t be so high and there ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twitter helps restore freedom of the press

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  A concerted effort by twitter users 13 October has forced a London law firm to alter the terms of a high court injunction which prohibited the Guardian newspaper from reporting a story on toxic waste dumped off the coast of Ivory Coast. Less than an hour after “twitterati” and bloggers broke the news themselves, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Trafigura-Carter-Rucked

  
  Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings — Authority: 112
  Last night at about 8:30, the Guardians website published this article by one of  its star investigative reporters, David Leigh. Leighs piece contained this. Todays published Commons order papers contain a question to beanswered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented fromidentifying the MP ...
  4 weeks ago

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