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Chevron's Amazon 'fake cleanup' trial Quito, Ecuador (UPI) Jun 25, 2009 
A report submitted this week to a court in Ecuador finding dangerous levels of contamination at oil wells Chevron says it cleaned up in the 1990s is expected to reinforce a fraud indictment against two Chevron lawyers in a $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit against the oil company. Seven Ecuadorian officials were also included in the indictment last September for helping the Chevron ... read moreEU nations agree industrial pollution curbs 
Luxembourg (AFP) June 25, 2009EU governments on Wednesday agreed to tighten up limits to industrial pollution, though without getting as tough as some nations, and environmentalists, would have liked. The new rules, agreed by European Union environment ministers in Luxembourg, regulate emissions of sulphur and nitrogen compounds, dust particles, asbestos and heavy metals, in an effort to reduce air as well as water and ... more
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Fast And Easy Go Green Fundraiser
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Recycling 4 Green is one of the easiest and by far most profitable fundraisers available. Simply put, your organization collects used electronics from neighbors, co-workers and parents that will be recycled, helping, in our combined efforts, to save the environment while you get paid for it. After a full box of items are collected, simply print out the FREE shipping labels from our web ... more New Tool Gets More Pollution Control For The Money 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 22, 2009There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue University may help sort out how to choose the best ones. Indrajeet Chaubey, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, combined a best management practices tool with a complex genetic algorithm that can sea ... more Antibiotics, Antimicrobials And Antifungals In Waterways 
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 11, 2009Antibiotics, antimicrobials and antifungals are seeping into the waterways of North America, Europe and East Asia, according to an investigation published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Authored by Universite de Montreal and Environment Canada researchers, the review found that consumption of anti-infectives for human and agriculture use contributes to thei ... more Indonesian hotspots flare, haze thickens: officials 
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP) June 16, 2009More than 400 fires have been recorded burning in Indonesia's Riau province so far in June, a huge increase from the same time last year, officials said Tuesday. Smoke from the fires is causing haze that is drifting across neighbouring Malaysia, where authorities said Sunday air quality and visibility in some areas had fallen from "good" to "moderate" over the previous week. Most of the ... more |
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Beijing 'garbage crisis' looms as trash piles up: state media
Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2009Beijing faces a "garbage crisis" as an increasing volume of rubbish threatens to overwhelm the capital's existing landfills, state media reported on Thursday. The volume of waste produced in the city is growing at eight percent per year and is expected to exceed the capacity of Beijing's 13 landfill sites within five years, the China Daily reported, citing the city government. It quoted ... more US wartime bombs still killing in Vietnam 
Bac Giang, Vietnam (AFP) June 1, 2009At first, Dinh Thi Bac thought the blast came from a blown tyre as someone drove past her scrap metal shop. She looked outside and saw the air thick with smoke, and when it cleared a little she saw all the blood. One woman lay badly hurt, bleeding and riddled with metal pellets in a corner. Another ran, wounded, towards the road and collapsed where motorcycles are now parked a few ... more Two arrested over Sicily's garbage crisis 
Rome (AFP) June 1, 2009A strike by garbage workers in the Sicilian capital Palermo entered a second week Monday and police arrested two men for setting dustbins on fire, authorities said. Firefighters were called out to douse some 60 flaming garbage cans during the night, authorities said. Two men, aged 19 and 24, were arrested, police said in a statement that highlighted the danger of releasing dioxin by burn ... more 31 cluster bomb treaty signatories still have stocks: report 
Geneva (AFP) May 29, 2009Thirty-one countries still hold stockpiles of cluster munitions despite signing a treaty to ban them, according to a report by anti-arms lobby groups published on Friday. Britain, Germany and the Netherlands hold the largest stocks, said the report by Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action. Britain has 38.7 million submunitions which are used in cluster bombs, Germany holds 33 million ... more |
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