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The Week in Pictures: PETA Classified as Terrorist Threat, Eco-Terrorist Nabbed, Jon Stewart on ClimateGate, Bed Bugs, and More (Slideshow)
From the news that the US Department of Agriculture has classified PETA as a terrorist threat to suspected eco-terrorist Justin Franci Solondz' arrest in China for drugs, a lot happened this week in green. Some folks have been calling up the U.S.
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Fungi Could be the Death of Styrofoam Cups
For years now, coming into contact with polystyrene, or as it´s better know, Styrofoam, has been nearly unavoidable, despite the well-documented hazardous effects it has on the environment--namely, that it can´t easily be
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EPA Petitioned to Regulate CO2 Using Clean Air Act, Cap At 350ppm
On and off for the past year we've heard statements about how the Environmental Protection Agency could really make an end run around Congressional inaction on climate and set a cap on carbon dioxide emissions though the Clean
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Hundreds Speak Out In Support of EPA Global Warming Rule
Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifies at the Arlington EPA hearing as API's Howard Feldman looks on. This week we saw some amazing public action as part of the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on its proposed
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1,000,000 Energy Star Home Owners Can't Be Wrong
The Energy Star program hit a milestone today--the one millionth efficient home that earned the blue label wrapped building. That's right--the number of pointedly energy efficient homes in the US has hit the seven digit range.
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EPA Bans Pesticide Insecticide Carbofuran by 2010
As of the end of the year, one more pesticide will be absent from food crops grown in the United States.
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EPA to Clamp Down on Water Polluters
Perhaps in response to recent revelations that hundreds of coal plants across the country are dumping waste into lakes and rivers where Americans get their drinking water, the EPA has announced it will be getting tough on enforcing the Clean Water Act.
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USEPA Issues Voluntary Meth Lab Cleanup Guidelines
Image: EPA Meth Lab Remediation Guidelines The Volunteers Who Clean Up Meth Labs The DEA estimates that over 100,000 illegal methamphetamine (meth) labs operate in the United States. The guys working in clandestine labs obviously have accepted the risks
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Forests a big focus at Governors' Global Climate Summit 2
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he'd be back to co-host the second Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, this past week he addressed the group again saying this reprise will be better than most movie sequels ("except for mine," added the
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Obama Gives EPA the Go-Ahead to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Showing that he's serious about curbing emissions, Obama announced that he's moving ahead with plans for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. Specifically, "large industrial facilities" that emit more than 25,000 tons of
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EPA Reviews Permits for 79 Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Operations
Yesterday we heard that the EPA was seeking to revoke the permit for West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal coal mine. Now they've just released their preliminary permit reviews for 79 other proposed mines, in four
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600 Coal Ash Dump Sites Found in 35 States: Is There One Near You?
Over the last 10 years, there have been 34 coal ash spills--some were famous catastrophes, like the one in Tennessee, while others have flown relatively under the radar. And a brand new federal
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EPA Draft Rules Would Regulate Large Industrial Sources of CO2
While the introduction of a climate bill has been delayed in the Senate, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with a new draft rule that could limit regulations of greenhouse gas emissions to apply to only large industrial sources. EPA
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Today's Toxin: Atrazine, the Weed Killer in your Water
The weed killer Atrazine is commonly used by farmers, on golf courses and those beautiful green lawns that people love so much. Most of it is made by the Swiss company
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Why Is There Still an Endocrine Disruptor In My Toothpaste?
Three years ago John first wrote There’s A Frog Disruptor In My Soap, including a scary list of products containing the bacteriocide Triclosan. We keep asking Why Is There Still a Frog Disruptor In My Toothpaste? and nothing changes. With the current
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Bisphenol A Found in Baby Food in Glass Jars
OK, So you have given up on canned baby food and switched to glass to avoid the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A (BPA), right? Well, maybe not. Health Canada (which last year banned BPA in baby bottles) tested baby food bottled in glass and
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EPA Reveals Locations of 44 Potentially Deadly Coal Ash Dumps
A little while back, news spread that the Deptartment of Homeland Security was refusing to reveal the locations of 44 coal ash dump sites--on the grounds that it was a matter of national security. Now, the EPA has revealed the locations
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California Finally Gets the OK to Set Its Own Auto Emissions Standard
We knew it was coming--one of Obama's first moves was to order the review Bush's decision to prevent California from setting fuel emissions standards. Then, Obama announced he was setting a national standard--one that would take cues
