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Celebrating the Blessings of a Coal-Based Economy: Who Needs Teeth When You've Got Cheap Power?

David Roberts | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Plants, Appalachia, Illiteracy, Poverty, West Virginia, Joe Manchin, Obesity, Pollution, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

Gov. Joe Manchin has declared coal to be the state rock of West Virginia. But why should her stop there? Having a coal-based economy has given his state so many other reasons to celebrate!

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BP Has a Deal it Hopes we Can't Refuse: Benzene Releases and Refinery Expansion Plans

Henry Henderson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Benzene, Bp, Lake Michigan, Bp Dirty Fuel, British Petroleum, Air Pollution, Pollution, Energy, Bp Whiting Refinery, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

BP seems to be proposing that to fix the current health-threatening pollution, they need to increase their refinery operations to refine even dirtier petroleum. Does that make any sense?

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Study: Companies Need To Disclose More Climate Risks

AP | MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Sec, Climate Change, Environment, Green Business, Pollution, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal regulators have not done enough to ensure that shareholders are aware of material risks to companies from greenhouse ga...

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Green News Report: June 2, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecological Issues, Roadless Rule, Green News, Climate Change, Green News Report, Green Living, Pollution, Guns, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Rules of the road; Packing in the Parks; Is eco-system recovery even possible? Plus: Green News Report helps your troubles g...

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Clean Marinas

Juli Charkes | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Boating Act, National Marine Manufacturers Association, Green Living, Westchester County, Pollution, Water Pollution, South Carolina, Green News
Juli Charkes

With the pleasure of boating comes unacceptable amounts of environmental waste and pollution; marinas and the boating industry must implement more environmentally sound practices.

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Lake Titicaca Is Full of Sh*t

Anneli Rufus | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Lake, Mercury, Peru, Pollution, Titicaca, Puno, Lemna Gibba, Lake Titicaca, Green News
Anneli Rufus

No, really. It is. According to Peru's Environment Ministry, over 12 million cubic meters of raw sewage are dumped into Lake Titicaca every year.

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NY Ooze Polluter Gets Prison, $105,000 Fine

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Pollution, New York, Gerald Cohen, Green News

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The owner of a Long Island titanium factory has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for storing 12 tons of corrosiv...

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Goodbye, GM

Michael Moore | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Bankruptcy, Flint, General Motors, Alternative Energy, Michael Moore, United Auto Workers, Gm, Detroit, Roger & Me, Green Energy, Pollution, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Business News
Michael Moore

Let's be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority.

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African Officials Ask For Climate Reparations Payments

AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Africa, Environment, Nairobi-Kenya, Pollution, Green News

NAIROBI, Kenya — Africa contributes little to global warming but suffers disproportionately from its effects, the continent's environment minist...

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Quit Smoking For The Environment

The Butts Remain | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Smoking, Pollution, Giy, Green News

According to ButtsOut, cigarette butt litter is the world's greatest environmental litter problem with approx 4.3 trillion cigarette butts tossed onto...

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Report: Climate Change Causes 300,000 Deaths Yearly Already

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Global Humanitarian Forum, Climate Change, Environment, Pollution, Global Warming, Green News

LONDON — Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a ...

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Illegal, High-Polluting Chinese Engines Sold By Mississippi Companies

AP | TIMOTHY R. BROWN | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, China, Pollution, Mississippi, China Pollution, Green News

JACKSON, Miss. — Three Mississippi companies are accused in a federal lawsuit of illegally importing and selling more than 78,000 small engines ...

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EPA: Recession Won't Stop Clean Energy Revolution

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Green Business, Pollution, Green Energy, Green News

PARIS — The top U.S. environment official says it's time for the United States to shed its energy-wasting image and lead the world race for clea...

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Pelosi's New Tactic: Telling China Environment Is A Human Right

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Environment, China, Pollution, China Pollution, Green News

BEIJING — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she remains hopeful of reaching an agreement with China on a common approach to climate ...

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Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah

Matthew Modine | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Matthew Modine, Climate Change, National Bike to Work Day, Pollution, Bicycle for a Day, Cycling, Global Warming, Causecast, Green News
Matthew Modine

The burning of fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine is dead. Raise your glass to self-propulsion! Long live the bicycle.

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Global Business Urges Countries To Cut Greenhouse Gases

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Environment, Copenhagen, Green Business, Pollution, Green News

COPENHAGEN — Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new U.N. climate treaty by agreeing Tuesday that the world must cut green...

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What Will You Do With Your Blue Marble?

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Recycling, Environmentalism, Ocean Day, Pollution, Ocean, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

Do you know where to get the best local, sustainable seafood? Do you clean up plastic litter, even if it's not yours and no one is watching? In other words, do you live blue?

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China: Rich Nations Must Cut Emissions By 40 Percent

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Developing Countries, Climate Change, Rich Countries Pollution, China, Pollution, Green Politics, China Pollution, Green News

SHANGHAI — Wealthy nations, as history's biggest polluters, should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, China sa...

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Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Intellectual Property, World Trade Organization, Monopolies, Environment, Climate Change, Wto, Pollution, Patents, Green News
Mark Weisbrot

It appears that international efforts to slow the pace of worldwide climate disruption could also run up against powerful interests who advocate a "fundamentalist" conception of intellectual property.

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The Top 10 Lobbyists On The Crowded Climate Battlefield

The Climate Change Lobby | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Lobby, Climate Change, Environment, Climate Lobbyists, Pollution, Green Politics, Green News

They're all part of a crazy quilt of about 140 businesses and organizations that jumped into the climate change debate on Capitol Hill in the first qu...

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EPA Finds Hazardous Material In Imported Drywall In US Homes

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Drywall, Chinese Drywall, Pollution, Drywall Sickness, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — The Environmental Protection Agency has found sulfur and other materials in a small sampling of Chinese-made drywall, which some o...

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Lisa Jackson Says Everyone Benefits From New Fuel Standards (VIDEO)

Fox Business News | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Fuel Efficiency, Emissions Standards, Environment, Cars, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Green Cars, Green News

EPA Administrator answered questions about the new fuel regulations on Fox Business News today. Among the anchors' concerns: Will consumers buy into ...

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Maps Show Why Carbon Legislation Is Struggling

Grist | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Carbon Legislation, Pollution, Green Politics, Coal, Green News

Coal has had areas of the South and Midwest in a devil's bargain for decades now: cheap electricity in exchange for poverty, low-quality social servic...

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Climate Change Effects: How Westerners Kill Africans (MAP)

Ezra Klein | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Pollution, Climate Change, Green News

WashPost's Ezra Klein spotted one of the most interesting maps we've seen in a while: The first shows the world in terms of carbon emissions. America...

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Competition Heats Up In Race For Electric Car Dominance

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Boris Johnson, Electric Cars, Cars, Pollution, Green Cars, Green News

SEOUL, South Korea — Urban visionaries in London and Seoul, two of the world's busiest capital cities, foresee buses gliding through their stree...

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