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Month: April 2011

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Another Severe Earthquake Rattles Japan

April 8, 2011 ENS Comments Off on Another Severe Earthquake Rattles Japan
Another Severe Earthquake Rattles Japan

TOKYO, Japan, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – Japan was shaken by a severe magnitude 7.1 earthquake Thursday night off the northeastern coast of Honshu [...]

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Colorado Petroleum Industry Accepts Waste Disposal Rule

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Colorado Petroleum Industry Accepts Waste Disposal Rule

DENVER, Colorado, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – The Colorado Petroleum Association Monday gave up its attempt to roll back a 2008 Colorado [...]

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Three SunShot Projects Funded to Advance Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing

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Three SunShot Projects Funded to Advance Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, DC, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – As part of the SunShot Initiative, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu [...]

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Three SunShot Projects Funded to Advance Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing

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Three SunShot Projects Funded to Advance Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, DC, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – As part of the SunShot Initiative, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu [...]

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U.S. House Votes to Yank EPA Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases

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U.S. House Votes to Yank EPA Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases

WASHINGTON, DC, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 255-172 in favor of [...]

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Arctic Ozone Hole Largest in History

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Arctic Ozone Hole Largest in History

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – Ozone loss over the Arctic has reached a record level this spring due to the continuing [...]

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Toyota and Microsoft Design Sustainable Mobility Future

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Toyota and Microsoft Design Sustainable Mobility Future

REDMOND, Washington, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – Toyota and Microsoft are partnering to build a system that links electric and plug-in hybrid [...]

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Iraq’s Tanjero River Polluted and Neglected

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Iraq’s Tanjero River Polluted and Neglected

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan, Iraq, April 7, 2011 (ENS) – The Tanjero River, which runs southwest of the city of Sulaimani, was once a sizeable [...]

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EPA Grants Help Low-Income Communities Battle Bed Bugs

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EPA Grants Help Low-Income Communities Battle Bed Bugs

WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding grants totaling $550,000 to five organizations to [...]

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Senate Rejects Republican Bid to Cancel EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Authority

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Senate Rejects Republican Bid to Cancel EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Authority

WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2011 (ENS) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to strip the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]

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Climate Change Blamed for Thai Floods as UN Climate Talks Open

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Climate Change Blamed for Thai Floods as UN Climate Talks Open

BANGKOK, Thailand, April 6, 2011 (ENS) – The first round of UN climate change talks since the Cancun [...]

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Japan: Nitrogen Injected to Avert Another Nuclear Plant Explosion

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Japan: Nitrogen Injected to Avert Another Nuclear Plant Explosion

TOKYO, Japan, April 6, 2011 (ENS) – Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has started injecting nitrogen gas into the [...]

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Critical Report Slams EPA’s Office of Civil Rights

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Critical Report Slams EPA’s Office of Civil Rights

WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2011 (ENS) – While U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has made environmental justice one of the seven [...]

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Amazon Rainforest Brown After Severe 2010 Drought

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Amazon Rainforest Brown After Severe 2010 Drought

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 31, 2011 (ENS) – Last year’s record-breaking drought across the Amazon Basin has turned nearly a million square miles [...]

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Thai Authorities Crack Down on Elephant Ivory Trade

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Thai Authorities Crack Down on Elephant Ivory Trade

BANGKOK, Thailand, April 5, 2011 (ENS) – Royal Thai Customs investigators confiscated more then two metric tons of smuggled African elephant [...]

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Radiation From Japan’s Damaged Nuclear Plant Off the Charts

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Radiation From Japan’s Damaged Nuclear Plant Off the Charts

TOKYO, Japan, April 5, 2011 (ENS) – Workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are being exposed to levels [...]

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Downshifting North America’s Freight Transport Emissions

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Downshifting North America’s Freight Transport Emissions

MONTREAL, Canada, April 5, 2011 (ENS) – Shifting to lower-carbon fuels, pricing carbon and replacing crumbling infrastructure are among the ways to improve [...]

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Opium Poppies Creep Back in Poppy-Free Afghan Province

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Opium Poppies Creep Back in Poppy-Free Afghan Province

By Maiwand Safi

TAGAB, Afghanistan, April 4, 2011 (ENS) – Farmers in an area of eastern Afghanistan that has been opium-free [...]

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Japanese Death Toll Rises, Nuclear Crisis Not Resolved

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Japanese Death Toll Rises, Nuclear Crisis Not Resolved

TOKYO, Japan, April 3, 2011 (ENS) – The death toll is rising in the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami that struck [...]

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Obama Launches Public-Private Green Fleets Partnership

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Obama Launches Public-Private Green Fleets Partnership

LANDOVER, Maryland, April 1, 2011 (ENS) – Five of the largest commercial vehicle fleet operators in the country today joined President Barack Obama [...]

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