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Rule Change Makes It Easier To Dump Mining Waste
National Public Radio: The Environmental Protection agency approved Tuesday new rules that make it easier for mining companies to dump waste near rivers and streams. Environmentalists argue that dumping the rubble fouls the waters, kills fish and causes flooding in nearby communities.
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Baltic Sea Pollution Hotspots Overlooked
redOrbit: According to research from Sweden, large sources of pollution to the Baltic Sea have been missed by existing monitoring effects. The Baltic Sea has had more and more health issues since the 1960s, due to the disposal of untreated human waste and toxic materials such as heavy metals. The countries that border the Baltic Sea have put together an action plan to stem the tide of contaminants entering the sea. Gia Destouni, a professor from Stockholm University, said these ...
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Florida Regulators Approve Auto Emissions Limits
redOrbit: Florida's Environmental Regulation Commission has voted to support a tighter set of auto-emission standards in an effort to battle global warming. The 6-1 decision came on Tuesday when regulators approved the plan proposed by Republican Gov. Charlie Crist. "This vote makes Florida a national leader in the fight to curb global warming," said David Guest, managing attorney for the Florida office of Earth-justice. "Environmentally speaking, it is a giant step forward." The ...
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Mobilising against the threatened wasteland
People and Planet: "There are many things we do not know about the future", says Lester Brown in this call to arms to save the environmental underpinnings of human society. "But one thing we do know is that business as usual will not continue for much longer. Massive change is inevitable. Will the change come because we move quickly to restructure the economy or because we fail to act and civilisation begins to unravel?" Saving civilization will take a massive mobilization, and at wartime speed. The ...
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Coal addiction tests Poland on U.N. climate goals
Reuters: Poland's addiction to high-polluting coal contrasts sharply with its hosting of U.N. talks on a global climate treaty to promote clean energy, but its government says it is doing its best to break the habit. Some 11,000 delegates are in Poland's western city of Poznan for a December1-12 meeting which marks a halfway point in efforts to agree new climate goals in Copenhagen at the end of next year. And the fact that one of Europe's biggest lignite opencast mines, the Konin mine, ...
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