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Latest News

New Airborne Spy Technology Could Spawn Oil Revolution

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, March 6, 2014 (ENS) – The newest advancement in oil exploration is an early-phase aerial technology that can see what no other technology, including the latest 3D seismic imagery, can see, allowing explorers to pinpoint untapped reservoirs and unlock new profits, cheaper and faster., writes James Burgess of Oilprice.com. […]

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AmeriScan

AmeriScan: Mar. 5, 2014

Polluting Coal Companies Fined Record $27.5 Million … Superfund Project Manager Gets 14 Years for Kickbacks … Clergy Lobby Against Keystone XL Pipeline … Agencies Plead for Human Use of Water Now Protecting Fish … California Man Guilty in $7 Million Alt Energy Fraud … Groups Sue FDA Over Mercury in Dental Amalgam […]

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At Risk

High Phthalate Levels in Males Delays Pregnancy in Partners

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 5, 2014 (ENS) – Women whose male partners have high concentrations of three common phthalates, chemicals found in hundreds of consumer products, take longer to become pregnant than women in couples in which the male does not have high phthalate concentrations. […]

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Fuel Efficient Peugeot 308 Named Car of the Year 2014

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 5, 2014 (ENS) – The Peugeot 308 sedan was named Car of the Year 2014 Monday at the Palexpo on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show. The French automaker’s winning entry received 307 points from the 58 jury members, with top points from 22 of the jurors after intensive test drives. […]

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Inaugural World Wildlife Day Brings Dire Warnings

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 3, 2014 (ENS) – “Some of the world’s most charismatic animals are in immediate danger of extinction as a result of habitat loss and illicit trafficking,” warned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as the world marks the first World Wildlife Day. […]

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Energy

Hundreds Arrested Protesting Keystone XL at The White House

WASHINGTON, DC, March 2, 2014 (ENS) – Police arrested more than 370 young people who tied themselves to the White House fence on Sunday to protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Called XL Dissent, the protest was organized by students from 50 colleges and universities. […]

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Land Use/Forests

EPA Acts to Protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay Fishery From Mining

WASHINGTON, DC, February 28, 2014 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today began a process under the Clean Water Act to identify options that would protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska from the potentially destructive impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine. […]

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AmeriScan

AmeriScan: Feb. 26, 2014

U.S. Prosecutes Importers of Toys Containing Lead, Phthalates … Poll: West Virginia Voters Want Politicians to Protect Air, Water … New Coal Data Browser Digs Into U.S. Coal Sector … San Diego Port Installs Shore Power for Cargo Ships … Petition to Save Monarch Butterfly Targets Weed Killer […]

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Energy

Duke Raked Over the Coals for 35 Million Gallon Ash Spill

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, February 26, 2014 (ENS) – An estimated 35 million gallons of arsenic-contaminated water and ash has spilled into the Dan River since February 2, when a stormwater pipe broke beneath an unlined coal ash storage pond at Duke Energy’s retired power plant in Eden, near the North Carolina-Virginia border. […]

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Business

U.S. EPA Honors Corporations for Cutting Greenhouse Gases

SAN DIEGO, California, February 25, 2014 (ENS) – Corporations as different as aerospace giant Boeing, Caesars Entertainment with its hotels and casinos, the networking equipment company Cisco Systems, Fruit of the Loom underwear, the Hartford Financial Services Group, telecommunications company Sprint and Mack Trucks were honored today for their leadership in protecting the climate. […]

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Night Battle Erupts in Southern Ocean Whale War

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 25, 2014 (ENS) – What has become an annual battle between the Japanese whaling fleet and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society over the taking of whales by the Japanese in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary erupted again on Sunday night. […]

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Asian Elephants Console Other Elephants in Distress

BANGKOK, Thailand, February 24, 2014 (ENS) – Asian elephants reassure other elephants in distress with physical touches and vocalizations, finds a study that provides the first evidence of consolation in elephants. “Humans are unique in many ways, but not in as many ways as we once thought,” said lead author Joshua Plotnik. […]