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"Icelandic Whaling Condemned by 26 Countries" [1]

"Twenty-six countries Friday issued a joint statement putting diplomatic pressure on Iceland to abandon whaling. Icelandic whalers have killed more than 200 whales so far since June, including endangered 125 fin whales and 79 smaller and more abundant minke whales."
Source: ENS [2], 10/06/2009

"DDT Deposit off Southern California Will Be Capped" [7]

"Clean sand and silt will be used to cover a vast deposit of the pesticide DDT and toxic compound PCB on the ocean floor off Southern California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday."
Source: AP [8], 10/06/2009

"Plastic Chemical Linked to Female Aggression" [11]

"A new study adds to the growing concern that prenatal exposure to the chemical bisphenol A could harm children's development. In the study of 249 pregnant women, the first to examine the effects of BPA on children's behavior, researchers found that girls whose mothers had the highest levels of BPA during pregnancy were more aggressive and hyperactive at age 2 than other girls."
Source: USA TODAY [12], 10/06/2009

"Obama Puts Government on Greenhouse-Gas Diet" [19]

"President Barack Obama is putting the federal government on a greenhouse-gas diet. In an executive order signed Monday, Obama directed all agencies to set the first-ever targets for reducing climate-altering pollution from government buildings, fleets and federal workers' commutes."
Source: AP [20], 10/06/2009

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