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Fish Waste Dumping Costly for Processing Giant Trident Seafoods

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Fish Waste Dumping Costly for Processing Giant Trident Seafoods

SEATTLE, Washington, September 30, 2011 (ENS) – Trident Seafoods Corp., one of the world’s largest seafood processors, has agreed to [...]

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Federal Judge Recommends Scrapping Oregon Logging Plan

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Federal Judge Recommends Scrapping Oregon Logging Plan

PORTLAND, Oregon, September 30, 2011 (ENS) – A federal judge Thursday recommended vacating a plan that would have opened up federal public [...]

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WHO: Millions Dying of Urban Air Pollution

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WHO: Millions Dying of Urban Air Pollution

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 30, 2011 (ENS) – “Across the world, city air is often thick with exhaust fumes, factory smoke or soot [...]

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Bayer Pledges to Withdraw Its Most Toxic Pesticides

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Bayer Pledges to Withdraw Its Most Toxic Pesticides

MONHEIM, Germany, September 29, 2011 (ENS) – Bayer CropScience will remove its most deadly pesticides from the market by the end [...]

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Cleanup Planned for Largest Abandoned Uranium Mine on the Navajo Nation

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Cleanup Planned for Largest Abandoned Uranium Mine on the Navajo Nation

SANTA FE, New Mexico, September 29, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan [...]

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Urban National Wildlife Refuge Approved for Albuquerque

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Urban National Wildlife Refuge Approved for Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, September 29, 2011 (ENS) – Acquisition of 570 acres to establish a national wildlife refuge along the Rio Grande [...]

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Fire Shuts Shell Singapore Refinery

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Fire Shuts Shell’S Singapore Refinery

SINGAPORE, September 29, 2011 (ENS) – A fire at Shell’s Pulau Bukom refinery on an island near the Singapore mainland was extinguished late Thursday [...]

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Indonesia Could Be Paid for Conserving Organutan Forests

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Indonesia Could Be Paid for Conserving Organutan Forests

JAKARTA, Indonesia, September 28, 2011 (ENS) – Conserving key Indonesian rainforests inhabited by organutans could generate revenues three times greater than [...]

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U.S. Agriculture Agency Gives Biofuel Producers $80 Million

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U.S. Agriculture Agency Gives Biofuel Producers $80 Million

WASHINGTON, DC, September 28, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding a total of $80 million to support [...]

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Pakistan: Another Victim of Climate Change

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Pakistan: Another Victim of Climate Change

By Zafar Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, September 27, 2011 (ENS) – Environmentalists are blaming climate change for the unprecedented massive monsoon rains in Pakistan, [...]

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New Test Detects Poachers’ DNA on Animal Remains

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New Test Detects Poachers’ DNA on Animal Remains

GLASGOW, Scotland, September 27, 2011 (ENS) – For the first time, suspected poachers can now be tracked through tests for traces [...]

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Thailand’s Rivers Polluted by Factory and Residential Waste

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Thailand’s Rivers Polluted by Factory and Residential Waste

By Piyawan Rungsuk

BANGKOK, Thailand, September 26, 2011 (ENS) – Thailand’s rivers are being increasingly polluted by industrial wastewater and solid [...]

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U.S. Military Sets Its Sights on Advanced Vehicles, Biofuels

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U.S. Military Sets Its Sights on Advanced Vehicles, Biofuels

WASHINGTON, DC, September 26, 2011 (ENS) – Vehicle efficiency and advanced biofuels have become top priorities for the U.S. military, [...]

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Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Eco-Heroine and Nobel Peace Laureate, Dies

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Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Eco-Heroine and Nobel Peace Laureate, Dies

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 26, 2011 (ENS) – Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, [...]

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Burning Off BP Oil Spill Sent 700 Tons of Soot Aloft

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Burning Off BP Oil Spill Sent 700 Tons of Soot Aloft

BOULDER, Colorado, September 20, 2011 (ENS) – During BP’s three-month-long, five million barrel oil spill last year in [...]

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Moving Planet Rallies Prompt Global Climate Action

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Moving Planet Rallies Prompt Global Climate Action

NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2011 (ENS) – More than 2,000 “Moving Planet” clean-energy demonstrations took place today around the world [...]

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Not Just Oceans: Acid Levels Rising in Air, Soil, Freshwater

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Not Just Oceans: Acid Levels Rising in Air, Soil, Freshwater

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, September 23, 2011 (ENS) – Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, freshwaters and [...]

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Free Condoms from the Center for Biological Diversity

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Free Condoms from the Center for Biological Diversity

TUCSON, Arizona, September 23, 2011 (ENS) – Extinction rates for plants and animals around the world have been accelerating while the [...]

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Ban Urges Ban on Nuclear Weapons Testing: Nine Nations Needed

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Ban Urges Ban on Nuclear Weapons Testing: Nine Nations Needed

NEW YORK, New York, September 23, 2011 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the nine essential countries [...]

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TRAIN Act or Train Wreck: House Passes Bill Blocking Clean Air Act

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TRAIN Act or Train Wreck: House Passes Bill Blocking Clean Air Act

WASHINGTON, DC, September 23, 2011 (ENS) – The House Republicans are calling it the TRAIN Act, but [...]

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