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Clean Water Act Challenged By Mining Industry

Cindy Letchworth | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Mining, Water, Clean Water Act, Clean Water, Environment, Supreme Court, Green, Conservation, Mine Tailings, Water Erosion, Alaska and Mining, Sarah Palin Environment, Earthjustice, Pebble Mine, Pebble Mine Sarah Palin, George Bush Environment, Green News
Cindy Letchworth

Mine tailings are waste. They are the left-overs after metal separation has occurred. Once the extractions are finished, the rocks remaining are often full of arsenic, lead and cadmium.

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Coal Ash Crisis Management: What's It Going to Take -- Dead Bodies?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Barbara Boxer, Carol Browner, Coal, Senator, Tennessee, Clean Water, Alabama, Water, Tva, TVA Disaster, Energy Policy, Energy, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Instead of crisis management, we need to phase-out all wet storage of toxic coal ash, inspect all toxic coal ash storage and disposal units and enact federal regulation of all toxic coal ash storage and disposal.

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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Coal, Mining, Big Coal, Clean Water, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, TVA Coal, Environmental Protection, Tony Oppegard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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Can President Obama Save the Environment?

Steve Fleischli | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Congress, Environment and Government, Water, George W. Bush, Clean Water, Environment, Obama Transition, Cabinet Appointments, Barack Obama, Green News
Steve Fleischli

President Bush has left a regulatory wasteland in his wake these last eight years, and it won't be easy for President Obama to undo all of the Bush ro...

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100th Anniversary of Water Chlorination

Patrick Moore | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Clean Water, Environment, Chlorine, Greenpeace, Green News
Patrick Moore

It's ironic that as we mark the 100th anniversary of drinking water chlorination, my old organization and other activist groups aligned with it continue to oppose this most important public health achievement.

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How To Get Drugs Out Of Illinois' Drinking Water

Daily Herald | Marni Pyke | Posted 10.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Clean Water, Environment, Illinois Drinking Water, Drugs Illinois Water, Cleaning Drinking Water, Chicago News

While everyone wants clean drinking water free of pharmaceuticals, getting vested interests to collaborate on a solution is another issue, state leade...

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When I Use a Word, it Means Just What I Choose it to Mean...

Carl Pope | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Epa, Clean Water, Environment, Clean Water Act, Politics News
Carl Pope

Bush has proposed to nullify the Endangered Species Act by drafting a rule specifying that new federal project, which in the real world threaten species habitat, "by definition" do not count as a threat under the Act.

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A Different Kind of Water Torture

John Sauer | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Better World Campaign, Bbc, Charity, Health, Water, The Giving Life, Cambodia, Corporate Giving, International, Foundations, The Fight for Clean Water, Preventable Deaths, Clean Water, Politics News
John Sauer

Each day in developing countries more children die unnecessarily from water-related diseases than there are people in my hometown on Long Island, NY.

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