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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News

Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.

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Half of All Fish In U.S. Lakes Are Toxic

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Pbts, Health, Fish, Epa, Mercury, Pregnancy, Coal-Fired-Power-Plants, Lakes, Pcbs, Wellness, Living News

A new EPA study found 268 bio-accumulative and toxic chemicals--notably mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins and furans--in fish from a national sampling of 500 lakes and reservoirs.

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The Future of Factory Farming: Barack Obama and the "Rural Agenda"

David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Epa, Usda, Animal Welfare, Water Pollution, Cafo, Factory Farms, Obama, Air Pollution, Rural Development, Food, Living News

If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department

Rob Perks | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Coalmining, Interior, Appalachia, Dirtyenergy, Lisajackson, Salazar, Mountaintopremoval, Obama, Doi, Osm, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Pizarchik, Green News

The Interior Department could -- and should -- have published proposed changes right away and proceeded straight to public input.

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One Year Later: Obama's Most Defining Environmental Moments (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein/Eve Solomon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Drilling in Alaska, Obama Environment, Lisa Jackson, Copenhagen 2009, Steven Chu, Slidepoll, One Year Later, Epa, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Green News

As part of HuffPost's One Year Later series, we're looking back at many of the significant moments since Obama was elected. After 8 years of an admini...

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Heads Up! Massey Energy Now Blasting Coal River Mountain

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Ceq, Epa, President Obama, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain, Mountain Top Removal, Obama Administration, Bo-Webb, Wvdep, Coal-Country, Coal-River, Michael-Shnayerson, Green News

The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".

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Gas Drilling in New York Comes to a Head

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Energy, Epa, Fracking, Environmentalism, Green Living, Energy Policy, Fracking Fluid, Natural Gas, New York News

Cooperstown, NY: Gas drilling and the forces behind it are massed to exploit the rich deposits of upstate New York, in the process trampling on the basic idea of government.

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Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!

John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Packaging, Waste, Trash, Climate Change, No Impact Week, Oceans, Water, Epa, Green News

The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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What's Cleaner: Used Toilet Water or the Chesapeake Bay?

Judd Legum | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Cardin, Epa, Howard Ernst, Water Quality, Chesapeake Bay, Green News

Below is a brief excerpt from a conversation with Prof. Howard Ernst I recorded. He reveals how he answered a question you wish didn't need asking -- What's cleaner: used toilet water or the Chesapeake Bay?

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Walking Down the Avenue

Carl Pope | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Bill, Kerry-Boxer, James Inhofe, Climate Change, John Kerry, Epa, Waxman-Markey, Polar Bears, Green News

While we should applaud the Administration for doing what the law and common sense require to protect the polar bear, we mustn't lose sight of the larger remaining challenges.

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Great Lakes Shipping Lobby To Spar With EPA

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, Clean Air, Lobbyblog, Epa, Business News

Shipping companies operating from the Great Lakes region are launching a lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing ne...

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In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Drilling, Polarbear, Polarbears, Biogems, Arctic, Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Epa, Environmentalism, Endangered Species Act, Critical Habitat, Green News

If approved, the proposal would be the largest designation of critical habitat in the history of the Endangered Species Act.

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BP Slapdown: EPA Really is Back on the Job!

Henry Henderson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Bp, Nrdc, Northwest Indiana, Epa, British Petroleum, Bp Whiting Refinery, Indiana, Coal Industry, Lake Michigan, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection Agency, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Asthma, Air Pollution, Chicago News

The EPA is back: it just weighed in on the controversial BP refinery expansion on Lake Michigan and issued an objection to the lax pollution permit that Indiana had lavished on the project.

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Congress Gets in the Act on Coal Ash

Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Kingston, Epa, Congress, Tennessee, Coalspill, Coalash, Tennesseevalleyauthority, Dirty Coal, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Green News

Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants.

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EPA to Revoke Permit for Infamous WV Mountaintop Removal Mine

Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Obama, Mtr, West Virginia, Mountain Top Mining, Spruce Mine, Mountain Top Removal, Dirty Coal, EPA Veto, Coal Mining, Green News

The EPA is taking unprecedented action to bring to an end the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history of West Virginia.

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How To Choose Healthy Fish

cnn.com | Denise Mann | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmon, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Health, Epa, Fish, Mercury, Heart Health, Fda, Tuna, Overfishing, Living News

Salmon, tuna, and other fish are loaded with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, so they must be good for you, right? Not so fast--some types of fish h...

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EPA Vows Better Enforcement Of Clean Water Act

nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Quality, Law Enforcement, Pollution, Water Pollution, Clean Water Act, Epa, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the ag...

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Necessary But Not Sufficient: Congress' Climate Bill

Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Clean Air Act, Climate Bill, Epa, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Exxonmobil, Denver News

The planet's survival relies partly on a climate bill but mostly on continued grassroots assault on coal plants and other offenders, plus disruptive clean technologies to take our markets by storm.

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The Tide Turns: At Long Last, Federal Chemical Regulation Given Priority

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Regulation, Toxic Substances, Environmental Policy, Consumer Products, Nontoxic Products, Healthy Child Healthy World, Impact News

It's special when an advocate bears witness to a tidal shift in attitude and action around a cause. I experienced just that when EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced recently that her agency, with the White House, is ready to get tough on toxic chemicals.

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A Bitter Taste

Javier Sierra | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Justice, Epa, Clean Water, Environment, Obama Administration, Enforcement, Anapra New Mexico, Lead Poisoning, Safety of Perchlorate in Water, Environmental Violations, Nytimes Toxic Water, Green News

At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory --getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities.

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The Growing Evidence of Oil's Environmental Impact

Bob Dinneen | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Tar Sands, Environment, Oil, Ethanol, Petroleum, Biofuels, Oil Industry, Carbon Emissions of Petroleum, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Inside DC, Green News

It is inconceivable that an honest and transparent accounting of the carbon emissions of petroleum when compared to those of ethanol would somehow be lower. It defies logic, reason, and most of all, facts.

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In Reversal Of Bush Policy, EPA Launches New Study of Atrazine's Health Effects

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: EPA Drinking Water, Atrazine, Barbara Boxer, Atrazine Water, Epa, Environment, Drinking Water, EPA Atrazine, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...

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