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Environment News tagged with contamination

Like Clean Water? Get Your Reps on Board the Frac Act ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, water, contamination, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 37 days ago - change.org
Despite risks of drinking water contamination, chemicals used in the natural gas drilling process called "hydraulic fracturing" continue to go unchecked and unregulated.
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Crude :The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You To See.
Environment  (tags: Chevron, Murder, Contamination, Toxic Waste-Water, Crude Oil, Human Lives, Human Misery, For Profit, Kerching, Hey Im Doing Fine-Screw You Losers, indigenous People, Fightback )

Panda Eat
- 85 days ago - alternet.org
This new film exposes what environmentalists have dubbed the "Amazon Chernobyl".In a period exceeding 20 years,ending only in 1990,Chevron dumped,over 17 million barrels of crude oil and even more barrels ofwastewater in Ecuador..for resons of profit.
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EPA Looks at Effects of Waste Plants on Minorities, Poor
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, pollution, humans, ecosystems, conservation, habitat, science, treatment, health, risks, safety, soil, water, contamination, disease, investigation, poor, politics )

Tom
- 122 days ago - latimes.com
A Clinton-era executive order requiring federal agencies to consider the effect of their policies on disadvantaged communities was ignored by the Bush administration. Obama-appointed EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson has promised to analyze those effects.
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Warmer Air, More & Warmer Water, More Disease
Environment  (tags: global warming, waterborne diseases, climate change, rainfall, contamination )

RC
- 401 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Climatologists and epidemiologists fear that increased moisture in the air due to climate changes - dare we say global warming? - will bring more rain, and along with that, a resurgence in waterborne diseases.
24 comments
CALL CONGRESS! Co-Sponsor HR 5580 to Ban Mercury at the Foul Four Chlorine Plants!
Environment  (tags: mercury, chlorine plants, environment, pollution, contamination, habitat, wildlife, protection, nature )

Cher
- 621 days ago - takeaction.oceana.org
In 2005, when Oceana first set its sights on stopping chlorine companies from releasing mercury into our environment, nine plants were using outdated, mercury-polluting technology. Thanks to the efforts of WaveMakers like you, these "nasty nine"
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A Plea for Help
Environment  (tags: nuclear, nuclear waste management, nuclear waste storage, radiation, Hanford Washington, Columbia River, contamination, nuclear contamination, radioactive contamination )

Max
- 632 days ago - planetsave.com
The Northwest is being threatened with a huge plume of groundwater contaminated with radiation and heavy metals.
3 comments
Captain Seeks Million-Dollar Damages for Erika Oil Spill
Environment  (tags: endangered, environment, government, habitatdestruction, oceans, water, world, wildlife, destruction, contamination, legal )

Erika
- 910 days ago - terradaily.com
The Indian captain of the Erika, the tanker at the centre of a major oil spill off France in 1999, filed Wednesday for a million dollars in compensation
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Warming Oceans Put More Stress on Whales
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, contamination, ecosystems, endangered, environment, fish, globalwarming, oceans, pollution, research, water )

Boris
- 916 days ago - ens-newswire.com:80
Climate change is making life more difficult for whales, dolphins and porpoises that must adapt to shrinking sea ice and decline in their prey species, according to a new study released by conservationists ahead of next week's annual IWC meeting
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Plastic Shopping Bags and the Environment
Environment  (tags: world, wildlife, sustainability, pollution, oceans, habitatdestruction, greenliving, green, globalwarming, environment, endangered, ecosystems, contamination, ClimateChange, animals )

Cynthia
- 950 days ago - abc.net.au
Plastic shopping bags have a surprisingly significant environmental impact for something so seemingly innocuous.
10 comments
Fuel for Thought | All Biofuels Are Not Created Equal
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, agriculture, contamination, ecosystems, emissions, eco-friendly, ClimateChange )

Ross
- 954 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
The world has come full circle. A century ago our first transportation biofuels -- the hay and oats fed to our horses -- were replaced by gasoline. Today, ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans have begun edging out gasoline and diesel.
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Care2's Race To Stop Global Warming
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, pollution, eco-friendly, contamination, off-set carbon, click to donate )

John
- 957 days ago - stopglobalwarming.care2.com
Remember to include the race to stop global warming when you click to donate daily!
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Northland Beach Resort Plans 'Endanger Wildlife'
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, contamination, wildlife, pollution, habitatdestruction )

Elena
- 961 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Promoters of an 850-home development near an unspoiled Northland beach say their latest plans will protect the area's ecology and give public access. But opponents still have serious concerns about the impact of the plans ...
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Sea Life Threatened By Acidic Oceans: UN Panel
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, globalwarming, contamination, animals, climate, sealife )


- 963 days ago - smh.com.au
Rising carbon dioxide emissions are making the world's oceans more acidic, particularly closer to the poles, heralding disaster for marine life, a major UN report on climate change impacts has warned.
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State Accuses U.S. Companies of Making, Selling Lead Paint
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, contamination )

Cal
- 965 days ago - enn.com
Ohio's attorney general filed suit against 10 major U.S. chemical companies and paint makers, accusing them of continuing to make and sell lead paint while knowing it presented health hazards.
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Plant Trees, Lots of Them, You Can Never Plant Enough!
Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, contamination, drought, ecosystems, environment, forests, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, pollution, rainforest, weather, world )

Team
- 968 days ago - freepage.twoday.net
Plant trees, lots of them, we can never plant enough! First and foremost they will keep cool our environment! That is how we can control the global warming, replace the wood we consume with new trees, trees which need Co2 to live.
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