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"Eleven potential drinking water contaminants will not be regulated, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined Thursday.
Officials said the contaminants either don't occur nationally in public water systems, or occur at levels that don't pose a health concern, the EPA said in a news...
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"If climate change is left unchecked, the costs to Illinois from flood abatement, water treatment, shipping, farming and related goods and services will skyrocket to at least $43 billion annually by the 2030s, according to a study released this week.
The report by the University of Maryland...
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"A federal appeals court yesterday ruled in favor of environmentalists seeking protection for the endangered North Atlantic right whale, giving those activists a victory in a long-running fight to prevent whale-ship collisions.
The decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
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"Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act -- as a brief loan...
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"In its final days in power, the Bush White House is rushing to have federal agencies water down the regulation of hazardous substances, lawmakers and public health experts say. A panel of scientific advisers this week denounced an Environmental Protection Agency plan to quickly alter the way it...
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Last week, a new report by the U.S. government's climate change science program outlined a research road map to help Americans adapt to a warmer climate. Author: Eli Kintisch
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"Environmental groups Wednesday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce a law that would control the thousands of pounds of toxic mercury discharged into the atmosphere every year by cement kilns in the United States.
Two of the nation's worst mercury-emitting cement kilns...
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"Sen. John McCain says at every campaign stop that offshore oil drilling is safe, playing down the risk of environmental accidents, even when faced with the power of a hurricane.
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In fact, Katrina and Hurricane Rita caused damage to oil rigs and storage facilities in the Gulf, according to...
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"The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group concludes in a new report.
The review, released Tuesday, examined some of the $400 billion in investments in nearly 7,000...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday three byelections for September in a move that could prove a test of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and his Green Shift environmental policy as well as a harbinger of a possible fall general election.
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- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's statement of apology (rss.topix.net)
