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  • CPSC Approves Final Rule on Civil Penalty Factors

    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to approve (4-1) a final rule interpreting factors to be considered when seeking a civil penalty amount for knowing violations of CPSC laws.
    2 hours 49 min ago
  • UN climate envoy expects dual-track negotiations

    AP - Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said Tuesday.
    2 hours 54 min ago
  • China’s irregular recyclers face scrapheap.

    China has a 10m-strong illegal army of rubbish entrepreneurs. But while Beijing has a grand plan for the greening of China, the country’s trash pickers are decidedly not part of it.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • The hidden side of Somali piracy.

    A report of the University of Sonoma in San Francisco says that many of the Somali pirates are bankrupt, outraged fisherman rebelling against the continuous abuse of their fishing grounds by foreign vessels and the dumping of radioactive and toxic waste on their coast.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • Arsenic in apple juice: How much is too much?

    Independent testing commissioned by the St. Petersburg Times has found levels of arsenic that have caught the attention of scientists and parents.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • Scots expertise in water usage can be 'exported to rest of world.'

    A climate change consultancy providing services to the UK government says water usage is "at least as big an issue as energy" in ensuring the world's future and that Scotland should nurture its competitive edge in it.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • U.K. faces a major skills shortage as renewable energy deadline looms.

    The United Kingdom simply does not have enough engineers, designers, scientists, physicists and mathematicians to do meet its renewable energy goals, experts warn.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • For renters, solar comes in shares.

    What happens if a renter wants solar power? Most of the time, it’s tough luck, unless the home’s owner agrees to add panels. But a new solution is springing up in pockets of the country: community solar arrays.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • Climate predictions shift.

    Global warming will change ocean temperature patterns and rainfall rates in the tropics and subtropics, but not in the way most scientists have assumed, says a Hawaii meteorologist.
    3 hours 34 min ago
  • Australia's pension funds lag on carbon risk: Survey.

    Australia's pension funds industry, the fifth largest in the world with A$1.2 trillion ($1.1 trillion) under management, is dragging its feet on climate change risk when making investment decisions, a survey has found.
    3 hours 34 min ago
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