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Sign Petition: Protect Your Drinking Water From Toxic Chemicals
Environment  (tags: environment, halliburton, cheney, corruption, lies, cover-up, crime, politics, government, bush, americans, health, risk, disease, epa, exxon, oil, gas, toxic, drinking, water, pollution, ecosystems, destruction, humans, protection, conservation )

Tom
- 188 days ago - humanitarianrelief.change.org
Thanks to a provision slipped into the Energy Policy Act of 2005 at the request of Halliburton, Exxon and other corporations, the oil and gas industry was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act that protects drinking water for millions of Americans.
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Siogn Petition: Urge Interior Secretary Salazar to Prohibit Mining Near the Grand Canyon
Environment  (tags: environment, water, animals, mining, grand, canyon, toxic, poison, pollution, humans, habitat, nature, wildlife, protection, ecosystems, conservation, government, obama, disease, risks, safety, business, americans )

Tom
- 206 days ago - change.org
Mining near the Grand Canyon will not only threaten one of our greatest national treasures, but will also threaten the Colorado River that flows through the Canyon. The river provides drinking water for 25 million Americans.
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Australian Beaches a 'Disaster Zone' After Toxic Spill
Environment  (tags: oil spill, toxic, Australia, environment, destruction, pollution, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 279 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Authorities in Australia declared dozens of popular tourist beaches on the northeast coast as disaster zones Friday, their once-pristine sands now fouled by a massive oil and chemical slick.
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STRANGE DAYS, STRANGE SKIES (Chemtrails)
Environment  (tags: chemtrails, sky, breathing, chemicals, toxic, poisonous, unidentified, vulnerable, medical, illnesses, death )

Jean
- 656 days ago - bostonnow.com
YOU ARE NOW BREATHING ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE, NANO-PARTICULATES OF ALUMINUM AND BARIUM AND CATIONIC POLYMER FIBERS WITH UNIDENTIFIED BIOACTIVE MATERIAL: "We the people have not been warned, advised or consulted but are certainly vulnerable to the outcomes." c
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Warning: Vacate Room When CFL Bulb Breaks
Environment  (tags: toxic, mercury, eco-friendly, green )


- 710 days ago - worldnetdaily.com
Less than a month after the U.S. Congress passed an energy bill banning the incandescent light bulb by 2014, the UK Environment Agency issued guidelines calling for evacuation of any room where an energy-saving CFL bulb is broken, releasing toxic mercury.
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Crocodile-Like Reptiles Die Mysteriously
Environment  (tags: India, crocodile, reptiles, death, endangered, toxic, water, pollution )

Eduardo
- 734 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
At least 21 endangered crocodile-like reptiles have died mysteriously in a river sanctuary in central India, raising fears that one of India's last unpolluted waterways has become toxic.
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Ask Japan to Stop Targeting Humpbacks - PETITION
Environment  (tags: petition, Sydney Daily Telegraph, Greenpeace, wildlife, endangered species, 1, 035 whales, 50 humbacks, at risk, Japanese Deathstar ship, Nishin Maru, whalers, illegal, inhumane, toxic, aussies please sign, whale watching, gunboats as promised PM Rudd! )

Tony
- 739 days ago - news.com.au
I am an Australian concerned about killing Humpback whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by the Japanese government. Humpback whales are important wild animals for us socially and economically, due to the growing popularity of whale watching.
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Fight For the 50 Whales
Environment  (tags: IFAW, Oceania Project, fight for 50 campaign, 50 adopted huimpbacks, endangered, wildlife, at risk, Japanese whalers, plan, 50 humpback slaughtered, inhumane, toxic, methylmercury, schoolchildren fed toxic whalemeat, sink the bloody Nishi Maru! )

Tony
- 777 days ago - narooma.yourguide.com.au
This Saturday, Narooma will join more than 20 communities around the country to demand action to stop Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling program as Australia's iconic humpback whales migrate south to the killing fields of Antarctica.
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Power Plants Tied to Mercury Air Pollution
Environment  (tags: environment, air pollution, mercury, power plants, metal, toxic, vapor release, arizona, emissions )

Kristmas
- 778 days ago - azcentral.com
When it comes to mercury, a naturally occurring metal that can evaporate into a toxic, invisible vapor when released, Arizona's skies are not much dirtier or healthier than those of other states. AZ is 25th in the nation for mercury air emissions
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Chemicals Threaten Wildlife in San Francisco Bay, Scientists Say
Environment  (tags: wildlife, chemicals, toxic )

Brian
- 809 days ago - sfgate.com
Scientists are closely monitoring flame retardants and commonly used pesticides in San Francisco Bay, as rising levels of toxic chemicals threaten birds, fish and marine mammals, according to an annual regional monitoring report set for release today.
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Toxic Emergency in Greece!
Environment  (tags: destruction, environment, water, Greece, Toxic )

Brandy
- 819 days ago - action.foe.org
The Asopos river in Greece is providing toxic drinking water to tens of thousands of people, who are getting sick and dying at alarming rates. With over 400,000 times the amount of Chromium 6 that should be in groundwater, the river is running red -- and
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Researchers Find Substantial Amount of Mercury Entering the Ocean Through Groundwater
Environment  (tags: mercury emissions, toxic, groundwater, researchers, habitat destruction, wildlife endangered )

Tony
- 872 days ago - whoi.edu
Researchers from WHOI have found a new and substantial pa thway for mercury pollution flowing into coastal waters. Marine chemists have detected much more dissolved mercury entering the ocean through groundwater than from atmospheric and river sources.
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What the U.S. Left Behind: War's Toxic Residue Lingers in Danang
Environment  (tags: destruction, environment, pollution, toxic )

Jan
- 915 days ago - sptimes.com
More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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