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Ancient Life Form 'Breathes' Rocket Fuel Ingredient, Study Shows

Posted 04.05.2013 | Science
Read More: Video, Rocket Fuel, Microbial Life, Microbes, Daily Discovery, Archaebacteria, Biology, Prehistory, Perchlorate, Earth, Microbiology, Metabolism, Evolution, Archaea, Mars, Bacteria, Rockets, Science News

By: Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/04/2013 02:11 PM EDT on LiveScience An ancient form of life can use an ingredient in rocke...

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Green News Report: April 5, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.05.2011 | Green
Read More: Co2, Natural Disasters, Fracking, Epa, Clean Energy, Coal, Chernobyl, Radioactivity, Iaea, Climate Change Denial, Green Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Toxic Chemicals, Pennsylvania, Japan Earthquake, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Japan, BP Oil Spill, United Nations, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Nuclear, Pollution, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Contamination, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Waste, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Bp, Subsidies, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Waste Management, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Toxic Waste, House of Representatives, Green Business, Don Blankenship, Tennessee, Deepwater Horizon, Paul Krugman, Farm Subsidies, Sewage, Massey Energy, Perchlorate, Bats, Utilities, Transocean, Executive Compensation, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Breaking:...

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The EPA -- Judge Them by Their Enemies

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chemcial Industry, Environmental Protection Agency, House, Toxics, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Epa, Perchlorate, Right Wing, Safe Drinking Water Act, Lisa Jackson, Drinking Water, Corn Ethanol, Senate, Green News
John DeCock

The EPA may be the most effective agency in the Obama administration and they are delivering on their legal mandate to protect the environment and human health.

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Green News Report: February 3, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Floods, Co2, Pesticides, House of Representatives, Natural Disasters, Australia, Epa, Agriculture, Regulation, Cars, Green News Report, Pollution, Rising Sea Level, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Usda, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Snow, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Glenn Beck, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Fedex, Green Jobs, Innovation, Egypt, Solar Panels, Electric Cars, Air Pollution, Coal Mining, Kenneth Feinberg, Solar Power, Clean Energy Jobs, Nuclear Energy, Perchlorate, Coral Reefs, Penn State, Energy Efficiency, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Midwest d...

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EPA Will Finally Regulate Rocket Fuel In Drinking Water

Jennifer Sass | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Epa, Perchlorate, Drinking Water, Perchlorate Water, Perchlorate in Water, Epa Perchlorate, Epa-Perchlorate, Home News
Jennifer Sass

Perchlorate is such a big health concern because it blocks normal thyroid hormone production.

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EPA To Regulate Rocket Fuel Chemical In Drinking Water

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Rocket Fuel Water, Drinking Water Standards, Epa Rocket Fuel Water, Environment, Perchlorate, Perchlorate Standard, Perchlorate Regulations, Perchlorate Water, Perchlorate Epa, Perchlorate Drinking Water, Epa Perchlorate, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is setting the first federal drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked ...

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Green News Report: November 23, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chevy Volt, Green Jobs, Epa, United Nations, Regulation, Contaminated Water, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Global Tiger Initiative, Water Contamination, cop16, Endangered Tigers, Christiana Figueres, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Vladimir Putin, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Cancun Climate Summit, Global Warming, Green Buildings, Bp, California, Carbon Emissions, New Zealand, Perchlorate, Nissan Leaf, Tiger Summit, Cancun, Senate, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Endangered Species, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Green News
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TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 29 coal m...

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Gina Solomon › Endocrine Disruptors in Drinking Water Gina Solomon's Blog Endocrine Disruptors in Drinking Water

Gina Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Perchlorate, Drinkingwater, Simplesteps, Endocrinedisruptor, Tsca, Phthalates, Epa, Green News
Gina Solomon

Some years ago, I was invited to speak at the Riverside County Medical Association in Southern California. A contaminant called perchlorate had been d...

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What's in your water?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Water Pollution, Tap Water, Perchlorate, Green News
Elaine Shannon

One of the season's big environmental stories has been tainted tap water. The subject has recently been paid much attention by lawmakers on Capitol Hill as well as by various media outlets.

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Will Obama Crack Down on Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Perchlorate, Safe Drinking Water, Rocket Fuel, Water Pollution, Green News
Elaine Shannon

Rocket fuel pollution in water and soil are bigger problems than you might think. In recent years, EPA has detected perchlorates in public water systems in 28 states and territories.

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Rocket Fuel & Perchlorates: The Antidote

Barbara Dehn | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Iodine, Rocket Fuel, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, Perchlorate, Thyroid Medication, Children's Health, Product Safety, Children's Safety, Health, Healthy Living News
Barbara Dehn

Perchlorate, aka Rocket Fuel, is a component of fireworks, munitions and yes, rocket fuel. It can also be found in drinking water, milk, lettuce, and human breast milk.

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Extreme Infants! Rocket Fuel In Baby Formula! (VIDEO)

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa-and-Perchlorate, Humor, Baby Formula, Epa, Perchlorate, Environmentalism, Rocket Fuel Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Rocket Fuel, Baby Formula Standards, Epa Rocket Fuel Water, Satire, Political Humor, Environment, Geroge W. Bush, Humor Politics, Political Satire, Humor and Satire, Video, Green News
Matthew Filipowicz

If rocket fuel in baby food isn't enough to push through meaningful environmental legislation, what on earth is?

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Sen. Boxer To Ask Tough Questions At EPA Designee's Hearing

ProPublica | Joaquin Sapien | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Barbara Boxer, Environment, Lisa Jackson Confirmation, Perchlorate, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Obama's Cabinet, Green News

From ProPublica: In the latest volley of a years-long battle involving the Environmental Protection Agency, the military and the White House, the EPA...

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Cool, Clear Perchlorate

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Clean Drinking Water, Perchlorate, Rocket Fuel Water, Epa, Rocket Fuel, Rocket Fuel in Water, Green News
Carl Pope

For years, the Department of Defense has used every bureaucratic trick in its playbook to keep the EPA from regulating a highly toxic water pollutant that results from the manufacture of rocket fuel.

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