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How an EPA cleanup project is damaging the river it seeks to save.

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A fascinating read. What I am trying to decipher is whether this is a brilliantly-staged character assassination on the part of a gigantic corporation and its expensive hired guns, or whether in fact this fellow Donziger is, in fact, a caricature of an ambulance-chaser. Almost as good as a Grisham novel

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George Monbiot's riting this in a Guardian blog is a guaranteed flame-magnet, but it is important that the debate around nclear power does not devolve into an environmentalist rout. Hard, hard questions have to be fully answered about HOW we move forward before we start pulling the plug on every single nuclear plant out there.

I have yet to see someone prove, using figures in BTUs, that renewables are the answer to the problem given current and projected generation capabilities. What this crisis should, and I think will do, is push funding of alternative energy research to the top of the priority list.

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Peter Wynn Kirby offers a profound and thoughtful reflection on Japan's troubled relationship with the atom. Despite the whimsical title, the essay provides a moving peek into a little-understood (by Gaijin) part of Japan's national psyche.

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Caixin calls for more reliable measurements of air quality as a first step toward genuine pollution control. Hmm. Sounds like public accountability to me.

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"On clear winter nights, when the trees are bare, Donald Kessler likes to set up a small telescope on the back deck of his house in Asheville, North Carolina, and zoom in on the stars shining over the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s not the most advanced home observatory, but the retired NASA scientist treasures his Celestron telescope, which was made in 1978. That also happens to be the year Kessler published the paper that made his reputation in aerospace circles."

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Liang Congjie, who was one of the founders of China’s first legally recognized environmental group and who came to be honored by international agencies and the Chinese government alike, died here on Thursday. He was 78.

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"Numerous companies are moving ahead rapidly with plans to mine copper, gold, and other minerals near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, marine biologist Cindy Lee Van Dover warns that without environmental safeguards the unique ecosystems of deep-sea vents could be severely damaged."

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"China’s environment minister on Monday issued an unusually stark warning about the effects of unbridled development on the country’s air, water and soil, saying the nation’s current path could stifle long-term economic growth and feed social instability. "

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"China says its growth is about development, not luxury like in the West. But where'd all the bikes go? "

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Into the age of water scarcity

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"To offset their own carbon emissions, European companies have been overpaying China to incinerate a powerful greenhouse gas known as hfc 23. And in a bizarre twist, those payments have spurred the manufacture of a harmful refrigerant that is being smuggled into the U.S. and used illegally."

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Saving the world’s rain forests would be the cheapest way to stave off climate change. But, argues Fiona Harvey, without a business model that works, it is just a hopeless dream.

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"China's £1.1bn desalination plant is just the latest megaproject in its increasingly desperate race against water shortages"

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