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Month: August 2010

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California’s Wild Steelhead Win, Irrigators Lose Court Battle

August 21, 2010 ENS Comments Off on California’s Wild Steelhead Win, Irrigators Lose Court Battle
California’s Wild Steelhead Win, Irrigators Lose Court Battle

SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – An attempt by irrigation districts to strip federal protected status from wild steelhead [...]

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Half a Billion Eggs Recalled for Salmonella Contamination

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Half a Billion Eggs Recalled for Salmonella Contamination

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – An outbreak of the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis that has sickened hundreds of people across [...]

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Nitrogen, Copper from Choptank River Pollute Chesapeake Bay

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Nitrogen, Copper from Choptank River Pollute Chesapeake Bay

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – An in-depth study of pollutants in a large river that flows into Chesapeake Bay [...]

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Subsea Oil Plume 22 Miles Long Found in Gulf of Mexico

August 20, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Subsea Oil Plume 22 Miles Long Found in Gulf of Mexico
Subsea Oil Plume 22 Miles Long Found in Gulf of Mexico

FALMOUTH, Massachusetts, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have detected a plume [...]

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U.S. Nuclear Waste Panel Slammed for Ignoring Public Fears

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U.S. Nuclear Waste Panel Slammed for Ignoring Public Fears

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – The Obama administration’s effort to fix the nation’s stalled nuclear waste program is [...]

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Camp for Climate Action Confronts Royal Bank of Scotland

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Camp for Climate Action Confronts Royal Bank of Scotland

EDINBURGH, Scotland, August 19, 2010 (ENS) – Several hundred climate change activists today established a camp near the Royal Bank [...]

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First Oiled Sea Turtles Released from Rehab into the Gulf

August 19, 2010 ENS Comments Off on First Oiled Sea Turtles Released from Rehab into the Gulf
First Oiled Sea Turtles Released from Rehab into the Gulf

CEDAR KEY, Florida, August 19, 2010 (ENS) – The first sea turtles rehabilitated after being caught in BP’s Gulf [...]

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Rare Rothschild’s Giraffe Listed as Endangered

August 19, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Rare Rothschild’s Giraffe Listed as Endangered
Rare Rothschild’s Giraffe Listed as Endangered

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 19, 2010 (ENS) – Giraffes of an increasingly rare sub-species have been just been classed as Endangered by the International [...]

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EPA Takes Aim at Toxics in Dyes, Flame Retardants, Detergents

August 19, 2010 ENS Comments Off on EPA Takes Aim at Toxics in Dyes, Flame Retardants, Detergents
EPA Takes Aim at Toxics in Dyes, Flame Retardants, Detergents

WASHINGTON, DC, August 18, 2010 (ENS) – The potential human health risks of chemicals widely used in dyes, flame [...]

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Pesticide Aldicarb Too Toxic, EPA Yanks Registration

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Pesticide Aldicarb Too Toxic, EPA Yanks Registration

WASHINGTON, DC, August 18, 2010 (ENS) – The pesticide aldicarb will no longer be used in the United States after August 2018 [...]

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Russian Bats at Risk as Wildfires Destroy Forest Habitats

August 19, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Russian Bats at Risk as Wildfires Destroy Forest Habitats
Russian Bats at Risk as Wildfires Destroy Forest Habitats

BONN, Germany, August 18, 2010 – Russia’s bats are among the hidden victims of the wildfires that have swept western [...]

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Future Unclear for FutureGen 2.0 Carbon Capture and Storage Network

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Future Unclear for FutureGen 2.0 Carbon Capture and Storage Network

WASHINGTON, DC, August 17, 2010 (ENS) – The Obama administration has decided to spend $1 billion in Recovery Act [...]

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Biofuel Blend Will Heat New York City Buildings by 2012

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Biofuel Blend Will Heat New York City Buildings by 2012

NEW YORK, New York, August 17, 2010 (ENS) – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Monday signed into law an [...]

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Lake Tahoe Summit Gets It: Healthy Ecosystem Equals Healthy Economy

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Lake Tahoe Summit Gets It: Healthy Ecosystem Equals Healthy Economy

LAKE TAHOE, Nevada, August 17, 2010 (ENS) – “Protecting Lake Tahoe is the right thing to do environmentally and economically,” [...]

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Extreme Weather Events Signal Global Warming to World’s Meteorologists

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Extreme Weather Events Signal Global Warming to World’s Meteorologists

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 17, 2010 (ENS) – Fires across Russia, record floods in Pakistan, a huge Greenland iceberg – this [...]

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Federal Court Uproots Approval of Biotech Sugar Beets

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Federal Court Uproots Approval of Biotech Sugar Beets

SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – A federal judge late Friday rescinded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s approval of [...]

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Gulf of Mexico Shrimpers, Fishermen Go Back to Work

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Gulf of Mexico Shrimpers, Fishermen Go Back to Work

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – With BP’s damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well capped since July 15, the [...]

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Corals Bleached and Dying in Overheated South Asian Waters

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Corals Bleached and Dying in Overheated South Asian Waters

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – The rapidly rising temperature of south Asia’s Andaman Sea has triggered coral [...]

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South Korea’s Four Rivers Dam Construction Rolls Over Opposition

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South Korea’s Four Rivers Dam Construction Rolls Over Opposition

By Rick Ruffin

DONGHAE CITY, South Korea, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – South Korea’s government-mandated US$20 billion Four Major Rivers [...]

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South Korea’s Four Rivers Dam Construction Rolls Over Opposition

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South Korea’s Four Rivers Dam Construction Rolls Over Opposition

By Rick Ruffin

DONGHAE CITY, South Korea, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – South Korea’s government-mandated US$20 billion Four Major Rivers [...]

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