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NEWS ARCHIVE
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Week of November 15th, 2009
Poisoning Troops
Military defense contractor Kellogg Brown and Root is facing a class-action lawsuit for burning toxic chemicals in Iraq and Afghanistan, posing serious health threats to as many as 100,000 U.S. military.
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Chrysler Backs Off Electrics
Chrysler has abandoned plans to produce a significant line of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, prompting outrage from environmental groups like Friends of the Earth.
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Week of November 8th, 2009
EPA: Capping Dissent?
Two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees have drawn agency fire after they posted a YouTube video criticizing the climate change legislation currently before Congress.
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Lilith’s Green Return
The Lilith Fair—the music festival in the late nineties that drew over 1.5 million fans over its three-year run—is announcing its return. And this time, it’s coming back green.
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Week of November 1st, 2009
The Climate Refugees
According to a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, 150 million people will lose their homes by 2050 as a result of climate change.
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A Chemical Link for Aggressive Girls
Women exposed to the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy give birth to girls that exhibit unusually aggressive and hyperactive behaviors by age two.
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Week of October 25th, 2009
Getting the World's Attention
The TckTckTck campaign hopes to raise enough awareness--and gather enough signatures--to inspire real climate action at the Copenhagen climate talks in December.
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A New CO2 Future for Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency will adopt new rules to limit toxic air pollution from the nation's coal- and oil-burning power plants by November 2011.
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Week of October 18th, 2009
The Problem with Scrubbers
Cleaning up smokestacks may have an unintended environmental consequence—polluted water.
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Focusing on the Fills
For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revoke a permit it had issued for a West Virginia surface mine.
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Week of October 11th, 2009
HAB at It
Last Wednesday, the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act, also known as Toxic Tides, passed out of the House Science and Technology Committee.
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Safer Chemicals Within Reach
The Chemical Abstract Service keeps an inventory of all the chemicals that have been invented or discovered. It just logged its 50 millionth chemical.
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Week of October 4th, 2009
Meat Safety Failure
A recent article in The New York Times points to failings among companies to properly inspect beef processing for E. Coli bacteria, which sickens tens of thousands of Americans each year.
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A Call for Climate Action
October 24 is being called the International Day of Climate Action by the nonprofit 350.org.
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Week of September 27th, 2009
Brighter Idea Than the CFL May Soon Hit the Market
Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), though far more energy efficient than their incandescent forbears, leave a lot to be desired.
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Grizzlies Make the List
According to the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, “In the past two years grizzly mortality has risen alarmingly...[and] their future remains precarious."
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Week of September 20th, 2009
Rating Cell Phone Radiation
As our cell phone use has gone up dramatically, so has our exposure to radiation.
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Poisoned Wells
Residents in Morrison, Wisconsin, turned seriously ill when their drinking water was contaminated from farm runoff.
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Week of September 13th, 2009
Coal Clampdown
It looks as though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is toughening its stance against the toxic practices associated with mountaintop removal mining.
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Banning Pesticides
One of the world’s most dangerous pesticides is still responsible for severe health and environmental impacts, reports the Environmental Justice Foundation.
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Week of September 6th, 2009
A Howl Heard
Wolves, it seems, are finally getting some slack—at least one small pack of Mexican gray wolves in southwestern New Mexico.
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New Rules for Flat Screens
If you’ve long suspected that the brilliant, digital, 50-inch image you were enjoying on your new flat-screen TV was sucking up a bit more energy than your old model, pat yourself on the back.
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Week of August 30th, 2009
Green Rankings and Ranklings
Rankings are always tricky. Particularly when it comes to how green one college or university is compared to another.
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Hunting for Methane
Scientists believe that climate change has already contributed to the melting of frozen Arctic tundra which, in turn, may be hastening the release of carbon dioxide and methane buried inside that tundra in the billions of tons.
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Week of August 23rd, 2009
Coal-Fired Fish
Mercury is not just in some fish, according to an in-depth study by the U.S. Geological Survey—it’s in all the fish the agency tested.
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A Tour in the Hand...
Audio tours, courtesy of your own mobile phone or handheld device, may hold the best promise for making an environmental impact when visitors come to an aquarium, zoo or national park.
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Week of August 16th, 2009
Who Revived the Electric Car?
On Tuesday, August 11, General Motors (G.M.) announced they are finally releasing the much-anticipated electric Chevrolet Volt.
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Are We Being Bamboozled?
Manufacturers eager to cash in on green consumer trends know that the word “bamboo” is immediately understood as a greener alternative to cotton. The problem is, many of our “bamboo” sheets and shirts are actually rayon.
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Week of August 9th, 2009
Mountaintop Mining’s Devastating Effects on Streams
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School Supplies Pose Toxic Threat to Students
Children may be savoring the remaining days of summer, but environmental-advocacy groups and publications are urging parents to get into back-to-school gear with a green focus.
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