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Cheney Gets His Wish: No New Regulations for Greenhouse Gases
Environment  (tags: global warming, greenhouse gases, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations )

Cate
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- 12 days ago - nytimes.com
In its report, the Environmental Protection Agency - gutless wonder that it is - "made no finding" as to the effect of global warming on health. Well, yeah, Cheney wouldn't let the CDC testify about THAT! And GWB thinks regs would cripple our economy.
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Fish Virus Could Lead to Major Kills
Environment  (tags: fish, fish virus, fish kill, Ohio, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, Mississippi River, environment, wildlife )

Cate
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- 4 days ago - washingtonpost.com
An outbreak of a deadly fish virus, viral hemorrhagic septicemia, has federal & state wildlife officials concerned about the possible spread down the Mississippi River. This is the first time this strain has been detected outside the Great Lakes basin.
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How About a Chocolate Trip to Belize With Sustainable Harvest International?
Environment  (tags: belize, Chocolate Tour, Cotton Tree Lodge, eco-libris, ecolibris, planting partner, SHI, the Smaller World Program )

Raz
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- 4 days ago - ecolibris.blogspot.com
Love chocolate? interested in a sustainable tour in Belize that is focusing on the ecology, history and culture of chocolate and will also give you the opportunity to plant Cacao trees? our planting partner Sustainable Harvest International has few more s
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From Garbage to Gas Tank: Trash as Biofuel
Environment  (tags: trash, garbage, landfill, fuel, biofuel, biomass, ethanol )

Jessica
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- 42 minutes ago - dsc.discovery.com
INEOS bio announced this week that they plan to produce commercial quantities of waste-derived ethanol within two years. Coskata plans to have a commercial demonstration facility by mid-2009.
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Lawsuit Asks EPA to End Use of Hazardous Pesticide in USA
Environment  (tags: endosulfan exposure )

Susan
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- 1 hour ago - earthjustice.org
The fact that EPA is still allowing the use of a chemical this harmful shows just how broken our regulatory system is. There's plenty of evidence and no need for more studies - we're demanding that EPA take action now
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Climate Change Likely To Add Fuel To Wildfires, Causing Greater Risk Of Respiratory Harm From Smoke Inhalation, U.S. Government
Environment  (tags: )

June
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 1 hour ago - worldwildlife.org
Wildfires, which have ravaged the Western United States to a record degree in recent years, are likely to become even more severe, frequent and widespread due to climate change, leading to an expected increase in respiratory illness from
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Researcher Says Gulf Dead Zone Bigger Than Ever
Environment  (tags: conservation, climate-change, habitatdestruction, nature, destruction, Sustainabililty, humans, pollution )

Linda
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- 1 day ago - hosted.ap.org
A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned."It's definitely the worst we've seen in th
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The Cost of Saving the Planet: $190 Billion
Environment  (tags: save earth )

Adler
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- 9 hours ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
What would it cost to wipe out world poverty, guarantee universal health care, stabilise population growth and roll back the ravages of global warming? About $190 billion a year, or the equivalent of a third of U.S. annual military expenditure...
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Air Pollution Causing Widespread And Serious Impacts To Ecosystems In Eastern United States
Environment  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, habitat, pollution, nature )

Ingrid
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- 1 day ago - sciencedaily.com
If you are living in the eastern United States, the environment around you is being harmed by air pollution.
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BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Back From the Brink, Red Kites Return
Environment  (tags: birds )

Mick
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Birds return to Ireland
 
 
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