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"Mexico Sees Support For U.N. Climate Finance Plan"

"A Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change is winning backing in talks on a new U.N. treaty, paradoxically because no one really likes it, a Mexican official said on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

"U.S. Envoy Sees Climate Partnership With China"

"The United States wants to forge a partnership with China, bringing the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases together to address global warming, Washington's top climate diplomat said on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

"Judge Orders Halt To Mining Protests"

"A Raleigh County [WV] judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block anti-mountaintop removal activists from further peaceful protests on certain Massey Energy mining sites."

Source: Charleston Gazette, 06/04/2009

"Black Tide"

"Just days before Christmas last year, an environmental disaster one hundred times the size of the Exxon Valdez (yes, you read that right) unfolded on a riverbank in eastern Tennessee. A wave of poisonous sludge buried a town…along with the myth of clean coal."

Source: GQ, 06/04/2009

EPA Studies Used-Tire Playground Risks

"The federal government is reconsidering whether sports fields and playgrounds made from ground-up tires could harm children's health after some Environmental Protection Agency scientists raised concerns,"

Source: AP, 06/04/2009

"Companies Not Disclosing Climate Risks: Studies"

"Most global industrial companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases are not adequately detailing their climate strategies in U.S. financial filings, two studies by environmental and investment groups showed on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

"Recycled Radioactive Metal Contaminates Consumer Products"

"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."

Source: Scripps, 06/04/2009

Climate Bill Earmarks Billions for 'Clean Coal'

"In the negotiations over the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Rep. Rick Boucher inserted a giant gift to the utility industry. It would create the Carbon Storage Research Corporation and funnel $10 billion to support the corporation over the next 10 years...."

Source: SolveClimate, 06/03/2009

Beaver: "Voyage of the Dammed"

Beaver may redeem the West from false landscapes of fast-flowing streams with open banks. They may not only return the land to what it was, but conserve water.

Source: High Country News, 06/03/2009

UL Starts Certifying Green Products

"Underwriters Laboratories, whose ubiquitous product-safety labels have made it household name for more than a century, is pushing hard to make a new name for itself as a global environmental-standards tester."

Source: NYTimes, 06/03/2009

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