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How To Protect Yourself From America’s ‘New’ Drinking Water Toxins
Jeff McMahon Forbes 8/09/2011 Millions of Americans have been ingesting them for years—perchlorate, hexavalent chromium, volatile organic compounds—not because they’re safe, but because they are among 6,000 toxins the EPA has not gotten around to regulating in municipal drinking water … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Finance, Education, Pollution, Science
Tagged 1, 1-dichloroethane, 2, 2- dichloroethane, 2-dichloropropane, 3-butadiene, 3-trichloropropane, aniline; benzyl chloride, benzene, California Office of Health Hazard Assessment, carbon tetrachloride, Carcinogenic VOCs, Chicago, chromium-6, dichloromethane, Drinking Water, EPA, General Accounting Office, Hexavalent Chromium, National Sanitation Foundation, nitrobenzene, oxirane methyl, Perchlorate, pollution, tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, urethane, vinyl chloride, water pollution
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Puma Responds to Greenpeace Detox Campaign
A new investigative report from Greenpeace, ‘Dirty Laundry’, profiles the problem of toxic water pollution resulting from the release of hazardous chemicals by the textile industry in China. By Raz Godelnik triplepundit.com August 12th, 2011 About a month ago, Puma, … Continue reading
Posted in Conseravtion, Education, Politics, Science
Tagged China, Dirty Laundry, Earth Ethics, Environment, Greenpeace, pollution, Puma, water pollution, Yonguor Textile
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Scientists call for protected areas to conserve deep sea environment
Waste dumping, fishing, mining and climate change are transforming the deep sea ecosystem faster than scientists can study it By Staff www.guardian.co.uk August 3, 2011 There’s trouble in the depths. The deep sea is the last true wilderness on Earth, … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Business & Finance, Conseravtion, Science
Tagged acidification, bioavailability, biodiversity, Census of Marine Life, climate change, COML, Deep-sea trawling, Dr David Billett, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, fishing, Greenpeace, Hydrothermal vents, Institute of Marine Science, marine life, mermaids' tears, microplastics, mining, National Academy of Sciences, National Oceanography Centre, Oceans, PLoS One, pollution, resource exploitation, Richard Page, vampire squid
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Federal court won’t dismiss lawsuit against Exxon
The Associated Press By Staff June 8, 2011 A federal court will allow environmental groups to pursue a lawsuit that accuses the largest U.S. refinery of violating federal air pollution laws thousands of times in the past five years. HOUSTON … Continue reading
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Tagged air, Energy, Environment, Environment Texas, Exxon, federal, Jobs, laws, Mobil, politics, pollution, Sierra Club, violating
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Fixing the Pacific Plastic Problem
All of the plastic we’ve ever made is still in our environment, and a startling amount of it is in our oceans. Learn what others are doing locally to eliminate plastic from their lives. PacificaPatch.com By Dustin McGahan May 23, … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Community, Conseravtion, Education, Politics, Science
Tagged Action, activist, Conservation, Earth, Environment, green, health, pacific, plastic, pollution, students, surf, surfing
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