Toxic Waste

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Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Ecuador, Texaco, Cancer, Toxic Waste, Chevron, Rainforest, Oil Companies, Amazon Rainforest, Home News

I had heard about what has been called "Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed this week in Ecuador.

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Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, A Smelly and Unique Stop-Off In Greenpoint During Open House New York

Katharine Jose | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Trash, New York Trash, Urban Waste, Enviromental Technology, Brooklyn, Conservation, New York Waste, Green Living, Green Energy, New York, New York City, City Waste, Greenpoint, Water Treatment, Toxic Waste, Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, Biodegradable, Waste, New York News

By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was o...

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New Evidence Links Oil Company To Toxic Waste Dumping In The Ivory Coast?

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Toxic Waste, Greenpeace, Toxic Dumping, Africa, Green News

AMSTERDAM — Greenpeace said Thursday it has uncovered new evidence linking a major oil trading company to toxic waste that killed 15 people in I...

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Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Living News

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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Britain Dumping Toxic Waste

Times London | Ben Webster | Posted 08.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Toxic Waste, Toxic Waste Dumps, Toxic Waste Dumping, Great Britain, Green News

Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international ...

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Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?

Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Obama Appalachia, Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Civil Disobedience, Epa, Daryl Hannah, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Ecocide, Mountaintop Removal, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Don Blankenship, Disasters, Coal River Mountain, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain Watch, Toxic Waste, Federal Office of Surface Mining, Coal Mining, Massey Coal, Mtr, Mike Brune, Ran, Rainforest Action Network, Coal River Valley, Green News

Coal mining is the Appalachians is the great American tragedy, and every citizen of this country should be ashamed and horrified that we are collectively allowing this to happen.

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Trafigura Dumped Toxic Waste On Ivory Coast: Documents

Guardian | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Ecological Issues, Trafigura, Toxic Waste Dump, Oil Trader, Probo Koala, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Environment, Trafigura Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast, Trafigura Toxic Waste Dump, Toxic Waste, Advocacy, World News

Documents have emerged which detail for the first time the potentially lethal nature of toxic waste dumped by British-based oil traders in one of west...

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Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

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Pentagon Knowingly Exposed U.S. Soldiers To Toxic Waste: Leaked Memo

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Leaked Memo, Iraq and Pentagon, Toxic Waste Disposal, Pentagon Military Analysts, Toxic Waste, Iraq, Pentagon Leaked Memo, Pentagon Propaganda, War Wire, Toxic Waste Afghanistan, World News

The Pentagon allegedly endangered U.S. soldiers by implementing and covering-up dangerously toxic waste-incineration practices at Balad Airbase in Ira...

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Ivory Coast Misses Principals, But Jails 2 Over Toxic Waste

AP | BENOIT HILI | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Ivory Coast, Toxic Waste, Tommy, Toxic Waste Dumping, Environment, Pollution, Corporate Malfeasance, Green News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — An Ivory Coast court has ordered two men jailed for their roles in a toxic waste dumping scandal that the government clai...

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The Toxic Crime of the Century

Jackie Fuchs | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Waste Disposal, Mexico, Mafia, Italy, Sex Lies Videotape, Garbage, Reduce, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Camorra, Recycle, Fish, Environment, Naples, Hazardous Waste, Reuse, Toxic Waste, Bacteria, Plastic Bags, China, Green News

For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.

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Port Arthur, Texas: Small City, Reluctant International Toxic Dump

New York Times | Adam B. Ellick | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Toxic Dump Town, Veolia Environmental Services, Armpit of Texas, Port Arthur Texas, Port Arthur Toxic, Texas, Cancer Alley, Ring of Town, Toxic Waste, Texas Toxic Waste, Green News

PORT ARTHUR, Tex. -- This downtrodden chemical town on the Gulf of Mexico has no shortage of nicknames: Cancer Alley, the Armpit of Texas, Ring of Fir...

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