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Stop Dangerous Double Counting -Take Action
Environment (tags: climatechange, environment, globalwarming, humans, nature, habitatdestruction, pollution, suffering, world )

Daphna
- 5 hours ago - one.org

Many leaders are promising to help people living in extreme poverty adapt to the effects of climate change. This sounds great, but unfortunately, on closer examination, it turns out most of this money could be double counted - it's money that has already

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Tell Representative Capps: Don't Miss This Opportunity! -Please Take Action!!
Environment (tags: Sustainabililty, wildlife, oceans, pollution, protection, habitatdestruction, ecosystems )

Tierney
- 7 hours ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org

Hubbs-Seaworld announced on Wednesday that it will not move forward at this time with plans for an industrial ocean fish farm off the coast of Southern California. Thanks to pressure from you and a complicated regulatory process, Hubbs is now waiting unt

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EPA Taking Closer Look at Coal River Mountain Mining
Environment (tags: coal, mountaintop removal mining, pollution, protection, government, endangered, habitatdestruction, water, Sustainabililty )

David
- 10 hours ago - blogs.wvgazette.com

An interesting development just in concerning Massey Energy's Bee Tree Mine, the Southern West Virginia operation where environmentalists had hoped to put a wind energy facility instead of a mountaintop removal job.

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Massey Cited for Blasting at Coal River Mountain
Environment (tags: coal, mountaintop removal mining, pollution, habitatdestruction, wildlife, energy )

David
- 10 hours ago - blogs.wvgazette.com

the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection quietly cited Massey subsidiary Marfork Coal Co. for using too large a load of explosives in its blasting operations at Bee Tree mine.

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15 People Worth Watching in Copenhagen and Two to Ignore!
Environment (tags: Copenhagen ClimateChange, climate, globalwarming, pollution, Sustainabililty, politics )

David
- 14 hours ago - grist.org

Here are 15 people worth watching--ones who wield outsize potential to shape the outcome, or to shape the narrative that affects the outcome. And two you can safely ignore.

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This Is Dave. He Wants to Talk to You About F- Gases -Please Take Action!!!
Environment (tags: globalwarming, CO2emissions, climatechange, environment, greenhousegases, pollution )

Tierney
- 15 hours ago - greenpeace.org

F-gases, or HFCs, are the super greenhouse gases that cool our drinks, our cars, and our buildings. They are a growing threat to our climate. Eliminating them is low-hanging fruit in the fight against climate change, because the solutions are tried, test

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Wild 9 Calls on Copenhagen to Protect Land
Environment (tags: conservation, climate-change, environment, endangered, habitat, nature, protection, humans, wildlife, Sustainabililty, pollution, politics, ClimateChange, climate )

Elena
- 15 hours ago - manitobawildlands.org

In November 2009, Merida, Mexico hosted the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD 9). Wild 9's central theme of wilderness, people and climate change brought over 1500 delegates from 51 countries together and resulted in forty-two targeted resolutions being

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Slower Population Growth To Help Environment: UN Study
Environment (tags: climatechange, destruction, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, pollution, overpopulation, research, science, Sustainabililty )

Adam
- 1 day ago - news.yahoo.com

AFP, Nov 18, 2009 - Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.

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Russia Steps Up Pledge for Climate Action
Environment (tags: environment, CO2emissions, climate-change, climate, humans, protection, world, pollution )

Cal
- 1 day ago - uk.reuters.com

Russia toughened its plans to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday in a rare encouraging development before United Nations climate talks next month.

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Risk to Human Health and Wildlife Survival, Are Polluting Lake Mead
Environment (tags: climatechange, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, pollution, habitat, protection, Sustainabililty, animals, forests, research, suffering, wildlife, water )

Suzybell
- 1 day ago - biologicaldiversity.org

The Center for Biological Diversity submitted condemning evidence to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection today demonstrating that Lake Mead, Las Vegas Bay, and Las Vegas Wash are being polluted by unregulated endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

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Plundering Appalachia - The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal
Environment (tags: Appalachia environment, habitat, pollution, energy, suffering, destruction )

David
- 1 day ago - plunderingappalachia.org

Plundering Appalachia is a searing exposé, in words and images, of the greatest ecological calamity now being wreaked upon America--an outrage justified by the desire for "cheap" power

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Environmental Coalition Questions Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant Tritium Leak
Environment (tags: energy, pollution, protection, Nuclear Energy )

David
- 1 day ago - app.com

A coalition of environmental groups that opposed the relicensing of the Oyster Creek Generating Station issued a statement accusing the power plant's owners of not taking corrective action that may have prevented leakage of tritium last spring.

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said Shailja M., 5 minutes ago, about Bihar likely to have tiger protection force soon

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said David T., 6 minutes ago, about GOOD NEWS!! Kenya orphanage takes in elephant babies

"Talk about being in denial about receiving any letters from any animal rights organization. And then the government saying it wants to resolve it to everyone's satisfaction, does that include the bull's satisfaction? I just don't get it, what is..."

said Animalib NO EMAILS, 15 minutes ago, about South Africa - Bull killing festival to go ahead

"this is absolutely wrong & terrible cruelty , they have not been understanding & have not madeany effort to find other humane alternatives - a bad thing to do , this policy ."

said suzanne O., 19 minutes ago, about Hundreds of dogs to be rounded up and shot in North West Territories

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