EPA Won't Regulate Rocket Fuel Toxic in Drinking Water
Perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water at sites in at least 35 states, will not be regulated at the national level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided.
The agency announced its preliminary decision not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water late Friday. Instead, the EPA said in a statement that it is "committed to working with states and localities to ensure public health is protected."
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The Trade & Environment Database
The Trade & Environment Database (TED) is a collection of categorical case studies that began with a focus on solely environmental issues, but did not include the economic consequences of other social policy choices, such as culture, rights, or other issues. TED cases include 28 categories that include both coded and reporting, organized into 6 clusters of information with extensive search and knowledge capabilities. There are around 700 TED cases studies. Please search the TED databases, read more about our research, see about the TED book, participate in Mandala events, and get involved (internships and distance learning).
Click here to see the NEW Geographic Indications and International Trade (GIANT) project
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Study eases fear about wind farm threat to birds: ENN
Wind turbines do not drive birds from surrounding areas, British researchers said on Wednesday, in findings which could make it easier to build more wind farms.
Conservation groups have raised fears that large birds could get caught in the turbines and that the structures could disturb other species.
But scientists fou
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Cincinnati wants to lead green roof movement in US - Yahoo! News
The City Council on Wednesday became the first in Ohio with a plan to channel grants and loans to residents and businesses to replace tar and shingles with vegetation.
Supporters of the idea want to see Cincinnati become a leader in green roofs, a European-born movement that has spread to only a few U.S. cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee and Seattle.
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The Charleston Gazette - - 'Clean coal' policies absent, GAO finds
Federal policy-makers have taken few of the steps necessary if greenhouse emissions from coal-fired power plants are to be captured and stored underground, according to a new government report.
Coal industry backers are banking that "carbon capture and storage" will allow the industry to survive efforts to control global climate change.
But the U.S. Government Accountability Office report, released this week, adds to growing concerns that the technology isn't ready now - and might not be for a long time.
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Officials face anger over radioactive site | thedailyjournal.com | The Daily Journal
Residents had their first shot in nearly two years Tuesday night to corner regulators about the future of the former Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp.
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The issue is whether the radioactive residue of the former smelting facility goes away for disposal or becomes a 1,000-year environmental sore in eyesight of the downtown.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is overseeing the facility's decommissioning. It dispatched 12 officials, from groundwater specialists to legal counsel for an unusual meeting at Edgarton Memorial School on Catawba Avenue.
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Millstone makes deal with environmental groups -- Newsday.com
State officials and environmental groups have reached an agreement with the Millstone nuclear power complex to expedite plans aimed at reducing the facility's effect on Long Island Sound.
Virginia-based Dominion, Millstone's owner, agreed Monday to immediately begin studying technologies and measures that would better protect fish and other sea creatures from Millstone's water-based system for cooling its reactors.
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Conservation groups challenge uranium mining threat to Colorado River - Las Vegas Sun
Conservation groups are challenging Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne today, saying he is allowing uranium exploration near the Colorado River and Grand Canyon National Park contrary to a congressional resolution passed in June.
Congress on June 25 prohibited uranium mining activity across 1 million acres of public lands in watersheds leading to the Colorado River that surround the Grand Canyon.
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Feds agree to do study on Grand Canyon mining - Salt Lake Tribune
Environmental groups who sued the U.S. Forest Service to force full environmental reviews of a uranium exploration project near the Grand Canyon say the government has agreed to do the studies.
A federal judge in Phoenix had barred VANE Minerals Group from drilling 39 test holes at seven sites on the Kaibab National Forest in April. U.S. District Judge Mary Murguia's order did not permanently stop the exploration, but she indicated that the environmental groups were likely to prevail after a full hearing.
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Special Report: The Mining of the West
Craters so huge they can be seen from space. Thousands of miles of rivers and streams polluted by acidic runoff. Miners can pay the government no more than $5 an acre for the chance to make a fortune or go bust -- and stick taxpayers with millions of dollars in cleanup costs. It is the legacy of an 1872 federal law that still allows miners to take precious metals from public land for next to nothing.
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Rising Tide North America » Blog Archive » Proposed Nuke Mining Near Grand Canyon, Native Lands
With minimal public notice and no formal environmental review, the Forest
Service has approved a permit allowing a British mining company to explore
for uranium just outside Grand Canyon National Park, less than three miles
from a popular lookout over the canyon’s southern rim.
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A 15-Count Indictment of Bush's Environmental Record - thedailygreen.com
Editor's note: This was Sen. Barbara Boxer's opening statement Sept. 24 during a hearing on President Bush's environmental legacy. The Administration did not send representatives to the hearing.
The purpose of this hearing is to examine the Bush Administration’s record on important public health and environmental matters. Unfortunately, instead of reviewing accomplishments—we look back on years filled with environmental rollbacks that serve special interests, and do not serve the American people.
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Radioactive material found in Kalamazoo Co. drums - NewsFlash - mlive.com
Cleanup work is continuing near two Kalamazoo-area homes where about 500 barrels of toxic materials have been found.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials say radioactive substances are in three of the barrels.
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Tallevast residents demand action - Bradenton.com
It's a story they had told before, but Tuesday night Tallevast residents once again stood in front of Lockheed Martin Corp. representatives and said how a spill from a beryllium plant has affected their lives.
For once the person standing in front of them wasn't just another corporate representative.
Ray Johnson, a senior vice president with the company, flew in from Bethesda, Md., for the two-hour meeting to assuage their concerns and listen. He said he oversees the Tallevast remediation for the entire company, relaying information back to the corporate board of directors.
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Environment chief lied to Congress: Sen. Boxer | Environment | Reuters
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lied to Congress about his rejection of a request from California meant to curb global warming emissions, Sen. Barbara Boxer said on Tuesday.
Boxer, a California Democrat who has called for EPA chief Stephen Johnson to resign, made the statement at a hearing on regulation of greenhouse gases under the U.S. Clean Air Act.
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September 18, 2008: Drilling for Oil is Not the Answer
# The United States consumes nearly 21 million barrels of petroleum per day (7.5 billion barrels per year), one fourth the world total. (1)
# Of the crude oil consumed in the U.S., 66 percent is imported. (2)
# The U.S. is on pace to spend over $500 billion on petroleum imports in 2008. (3)
# U.S. oil production currently occurs onshore in the lower 48 states (2.9 million barrels per day (mbd)), offshore (1.4 mbd, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico), and in Alaska (0.7 mbd). (4)
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Willits Economic Localization
To foster the creation of a local, sustainable economy in the Willits area by partnering with other organizations to watch for opportunities and vulnerabilities, incubate and coordinate projects and facilitate dialogue, action and education within our community.
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Who Is Responsible for the Surge in Food and Fuel Prices?
The impact of the green revolution into biofuels is impacting more than anyone could have guessed on the availability, and thus the cost, of food. From 2002 until February this year the cost of a basket of food rose by 140% according to a World Bank report (1).
The impact is being felt worldwide. We are now facing more pressures about how we work and live given
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Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic EIS News and Events
The Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic EIS Information Center Web site was launched September 11, 2008. This Web site is the online center for public information and involvement in the Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.
The U.S. Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration (Western), and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), will prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to evaluate the impacts of wind energy development within Western's Upper Great Plains Customer Service Region (UGP Region), which encompasses all or parts of the States of Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; and on the Service's landscape-level grassland and wetland easements in North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana.
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IRIN Asia | KYRGYZSTAN: Nuclear waste dumps threaten environment | Early Warning Environment Natural Disasters | Feature
"I carry clean [drinking] water with my truck to the villages upstream almost on a daily basis. I was born here and I remember that in the past the road on this side of the river was closed to traffic. They say that was because of some mines and radioactive waste tailings," Bakyt told IRIN in Kairygach, about 10-15 minutes' drive from Mailuu-Suu.
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