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Stop Toxin-Laden Wastewater Dump in Our Streams ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, water, waste, streams, lakes, protection, toxins, habitat, nature, wildlife, humans )

Cher
- 147 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
On June 22, 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act permits a mining company to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons per day of toxic wastewater slurry into an Alaskan lake, killing its fish and aquatic life.
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Good News: The EPA Bans Carbofuran Residue on Food
Environment  (tags: carbofuran, insecticides, wildlife, toxins, EPA, children's health, bird kills )

RC
- 514 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Will wonders never cease? The Environmental Protection Agency has surprised both the insecticide's manufacturer, FMC, and conservationists by disallowing any carbofuran residue on food for human consumption. This is a major benefit for wildlife as well.
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PLASTIC BAGS ARE KILLING US !
Environment  (tags: Americans, plastic bag, environment, humans, eco-friendly, consumers, risk, toxins, health, world )

Kemsa
- 863 days ago - salon.com
The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it.
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Taiji Dolphin Killers Accused of Selling Poison Meat
Environment  (tags: dolphins, dolphin slaughter, mercury, pollution, toxins, habitatdestruction, destruction )

Simone
- 864 days ago - idausa.org
This is the first time that Japanese elected officials have openly stated that dolphin meat is unfit to eat because it contains dangerously high levels of mercury and methylmercury, which can cause irreversible brain damage and severe birth defects. Yama
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Group Seeks Ban on Detergent Ingredient
Environment  (tags: environmental group, government, U.S. waters, toxins, water, animals, scientists, pollution )

Kemsa
- 929 days ago - earthhopenetwork.net
An environmental group asked the federal government Tuesday to ban a class of toxic chemical compounds that are found in industrial and household detergents and are believed to cause male fish to develop female characteristics.
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Deadly Algae, Overfishing Linked
Environment  (tags: dolphins, seals, birds, pollution, toxins, over-harvesting )

Maureen
- 965 days ago - news24.com
Los Angeles - Hundreds of seals, dolphins and marine birds have been killed in recent weeks by an upsurge in a sea toxin linked to overfishing, the destruction of wetlands and pollution, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. The report was trigger
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Environmentalists Demand Curbs on Mercury Trade
Environment  (tags: Mercury, Toxins, Pollution )

Cal
- 1049 days ago - enn.com
Industrialised nations should agree binding rules to cut use of the toxic heavy metal mercury and speed up plans to curb exports to the developing world, environmental activists said on Monday.
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