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• Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A spotted gray trigger fish was just big enough to fit inside a caulking tube, and became highly protective of its tiny habitat, snapping at approaching fish. Mr. Moore and his research team removed the tube from the garbage patch in September and placed it in an aquarium for observation.
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• Carbon Sequestration - The ultimate in madness

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 123
  Notice they say the “carbon plume may eventually drift (DRIFT) under Ohio”.  Notice the guy says everything will be fine until SOMETHING goes wrong. Notice one of the commentators says that depending on the amount of ammonia used the site could be considered a hazmat accident waiting to happen? This article is ...
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• Greenfield residents sold down the river-- or should I say sewage line?

  
  Michaelann Land — Authority: 123
  "If you wouldnt want to drink it, why would you want to breathe it?"  That very reasonable question by a Greenfield resident to the Greenfield Appointment and Ordinance Committee at a public hearing last Monday summed up the concerns of the 100 people in the Greenfield Middle School auditorium.. Greenfield is one of ...
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• Victory at Sea

  
  Spoutingoff's Blog — Authority: 112
  After 18 years of fighting for clean water, surfers in Malibu score a major win The Regional Water Board voted 5-2 last night to approve a moratorium on septic systems in the Malibu civic center area.  In a bid to clean up chronically polluted Surfrider Beach, the measure bans any new septic systems in the area and ...
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• Michigan loses millions by paying companies to comply with enviro laws

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 668
  General Motors is one of many companies in Michigan using state tax breaks to comply with environmental laws. (Creative Commons photo by Ahren D via Flickr) Some of Michigan’s largest polluting corporations are receiving millions in tax breaks for installing environmental control equipment that is required under ...
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• Michigan’s shadow budget: Tax breaks that cost billions

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 668
  Part of the reason Michigan doesn’t have enough money to pay for public services like education , health care and environmental enforcement , is that the state is giving away billions in tax breaks (a projected $35.8 billion in 2009) for everything from NASCAR speedways, to church vehicles, to companies that ...
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• Conserve My State

  
  Got2BeGreen — Authority: 126
  Tennessee has started what could prove to be a great new program, as far as the environment is concerned.  It’s a Middle Tennessee initiative called Conserve My Land .  Its goal is to “encourage farmland preservation on the urban fringe” and also to promote practices which not only maintain, but also improve ...
  6 days ago

• Rain Water Harvesting Or the History of the Rainwater Barrel

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Ron Hartwell While the history of the barrel goes back to Babylon and Roman times and the rain water barrel would have to follow that , the history of rainwater harvesting very possibly would date back to the very first appearance of "Man". It is quite likely that the "cave man" collected rain water for future ...
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• Nuclear waste found in Rio Grande

  
  ecotravel news — Authority: 122
  The Los Angeles Times reports on the nuclear waste runoff found in New Mexicos river Rio Grande. More than 60 years after scientists assembled the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, lethal waste is seeping from mountain burial sites and moving toward aquifers, springs and streams that provide water to ...
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• Quick Overview of Canadian Environmental Law

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 122
  Please checkout our new page , with its quick summary of Canadian environmental in an easy-to-read, question and answer format. It starts: Legislation 1 Main environmental regulations What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment? Under Canada’s constitution, environmental ...
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• Simple Method For Beaming Energy From Space - But somebody will get hurt in the process

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 123
   It is Jam Band Friday -  http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you+can%27t+always+get+what+you+want&docid=1345780778117&mid=16E7403197023CEB494316E7403197023CEB4943&FORM=VIVR10 Everyone in this country has been programmed by rampant science fiction to believe that everything for the future comes from ...
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• Tar sands

  
  The Why Files — Authority: 108
  Canadas oil-drenched sands give it the second-largest oil reserves in the world. Using the "tar sands" pollutes air and water, destroys forests and could cause cancer. Should we leave oil sands alone?
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• Oklahoma, Arkansas Poultry Industry Continue Court Battle Over Water Pollution

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 502
  Oklahoma’s lawsuit against 11 poultry companies, including Tyson Food Inc., continues to take interesting twist and turns in court as more witnesses testify. Poultry companies have claimed that Oklahoma state officials took too long to file suit about alleged water pollution from bird waste, The Associated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Special Report: The Business of Blue: A Drought-Stricken Land Offers Help With Water

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Rubicon FlumeGates, water control and flow measurement devices, installed in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District in Victoria, Australia.
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• Special Report: The Business of Blue: Chinas Water Needs Create Opportunities

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The Qinghe Wastewater Plant in Beijing. China’s water shortage, especially in the northern part of the country, is driving a need for wastewater recycling.
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• Top 10 Horror Movies With a Message

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  As this Halloween season’s crop of horror movies is released, I recommend skipping the sensational and the torturous and staying in with one of the films below.  Not only will they scare you but you’ll also get a little commentary about the world we live in to make you think. Some of the films are more ...
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• Clean water profits

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 665
  Filed under: Newsletters , Commodities , Agriculture , Stocks to Buy , Green Stocks , Obama Picks "Water, one of the most precious of resources, continues to be the most mispriced," says Neil George . In his Profits Hidden in the News advisory, he explains, "Millions of Americans are drinking dangerous ...
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• Waukesha’s Water Woes Herald Test of Great Lakes Compact

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 502
  The Great lakes Compact may be put to the test soon as the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin seeks permission to tap Lake Michigan’s water supply. Waukesha officials moved closer to making their request this week when the state Department of Natural Resources determined (DNR) that the city does not have to wait for ...
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• Letters: Protecting Water While Drilling for Natural Gas

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  To the Editor:.
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• Burning The Future: Coal In America (Trailer)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Burning The Future: Coal in America, a documentary from director David Novak, investigates the raging conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virgina, and by examining the devastating health and environmental risks created by mining, debunks the myth of “clean coal”.  Just by watching the ...
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