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- This week I learned all about how to test for oil sands pollution: Take a handful of rainbow trout, put them in test water, and see if more than half of them die. Seem odd that you use live fish to see whether there will be dead fish?
- In collaboration with a Washington, D.C., nonprofit think tank, and Environment Canada, the nation's weather and environmental protection agency, Colombia is developing a project to divert some of its trash from landfills to waste treatment...
- Penn State's Michael Mann has found his office girded with police tape as a crime scene. He has received threats to himself and his family. He has been the focus of lawsuits seeking the public release of his e-mails. Mann is, arguably, the nation's...
- Four months after filing for bankruptcy protection, the owner of three coal-fired power plants in suburban Chicago on Thursday won a two-year reprieve from tough state limits on their lung-damaging emissions. Environmentalists say move imperils...
- The Home Depot chain has agreed to pay $8 million for selling tens of thousands of gallons of paint, varnishes, sealants and other liquid building materials that violated regional air quality rules, California officials announced.
- An estimated 535,000 young children in the United States have harmful levels of lead in their bodies, putting them at risk of lost intelligence, attention disorders and other life-long health problems, according to a new estimate released Thursday...
- Metro Detroit’s poor and minority populations face greater health and environmental challenges than most communities because of their proximity to industrial pollution, a new report from the Sierra Club states.
- Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds on Friday at a poultry market in the financial hub Shanghai as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off on Hong Kong's share...
- Three months of shockingly bad air pollution, known to foreigners here as the “airpocalypse,” is now prompting growing numbers of expatriates and their families to leave China, and some companies to offer hazard pay to keep them here, according to...
- Majora Carter is known in the South Bronx as a fierce defender of its residents against urban blights like truck traffic and garbage dumps. But many former allies and neighbors say that she trades on the credibility she built in the Bronx, while no...
- In collaboration with a Washington, D.C., nonprofit think tank, and Environment Canada, the nation's weather and environmental protection agency, Colombia is developing a project to divert some of its trash from landfills to waste treatment...
- Penn State's Michael Mann has found his office girded with police tape as a crime scene. He has received threats to himself and his family. He has been the focus of lawsuits seeking the public release of his e-mails. Mann is, arguably, the nation's...
- A bill that aims to minimize pesticide use on state-owned property is gaining momentum in Oregon's Legislature, with a group that represents pesticide manufacturers and applicators endorsing an amended version.
- The UK government should suspend the use of a number of pesticides linked to the deaths of bees, members of the Environmental Audit Committee said as they called for a moratorium on the use of sprays containing neonicotinoids.
- El Paso Electric says a new natural gas power plant is necessary to meet the needs of the growing city and county. Residents question the location and fear that a range of air and water contaminants will have an impact on their community.
- The four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River that block salmon migration and cause toxic algae blooms in stagnant lake water should be removed, concludes the most comprehensive environmental study ever done on the river system that flows from...
- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to clean up contaminated river sediment at the Grasse River Superfund site in Massena, New York. Past industrial activities have contaminated the river...
- Elliott Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, grins and leans toward visitors in his Dallas office to describe his biggest discovery in 53 years as an oilman. After nursing a single 10-barrel-a-day well in a desolate stretch...
- Isolated coral reefs can recover from catastrophic damage as effectively as those with nearby undisturbed neighbors, a long-term study by marine biologists has shown. Scott Reef, a remote coral system in the Indian Ocean, has largely recovered from...
- "A 'rank' odor that has spread across parts of greater New Orleans may be linked to a leak from the 192,500-barrel-per-day Chalmette refinery, the U.S. Coast Guard investigating the smell said on Thursday." Read more
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