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Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie

Steve Fleischli | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Policy, Clean Coal, Water Pollution, Water, Environment, Coal, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Green News
Steve Fleischli

Even if carbon capture and sequestration technology existed to remove these emissions, it still wouldn't make coal clean. From cradle to grave, coal is inherently filthy.

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Water Quality Regulation in California: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?

David S. Beckman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Regional Water Quality Control Boards, State Water Resources Control Boards, Environment and Government, California, Water Pollution, Water Pollutants, Water, Clean Water Act, Nature, Clean Water, Environment, Environmentalism, Pollution, Green News
David S. Beckman

The core component of California's Clean Water Act is the issuance of permits -- basically, limitations on the discharge of pollution -- to dischargers of water pollution.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Not Home Yet: The Terrible Carnage of Bush's Final Days

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, White House, Water Pollution, Doj, Environment, Endangered Species, Hhs, Air Pollution, Endangered Species Act, Bush, Epa, Obama Administration, Bush Environmental Policy, Clean Air Act, Bush Final Weeks, National Parks, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

As if eight long years of hell under Bush were not enough, we now have to suffer this accelerated push to destroy our future in the last days of his reign of terror.

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Bottled Water Has Pollutants, Too

AP | JEFF DONN | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Bottled Water, Pollution, Water Pollution, Water Crisis, Water, Green News

Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water, according to a study released Wednesday by an e...

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White House Takes Water to the Extreme!

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy Drinks, Rocket Fuel Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution, Satire, Water, Epa Rocket Fuel Water, George W. Bush, Epa, Environment, Political Satire, Pollution, Politics News
Matthew Filipowicz

It's just rocket fuel. Who wouldn't want some in their drinking water? And everybody's drinking it.

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Pollution In China: Is China's Industry Poisoning Its Children

Scientific America | Dan Fagin | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Air Pollution in China, Environmental Pollution, China Pollution, Water Pollution, Beijing Pollution, Air Pollution, Pollution, Pollution in China, Green News

ILL WIND: A young boy wears a mask against pollution in Linfen, China. Preliminary results from a study conducted in Tongliang, China, reveal that ch...

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Offshore Oil: What Would Sun Tzu Do?

Richard Arthur | Posted 08.15.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, California, Crude Oil Prices, Alternative Energy, Anwr, George W. Bush, Energy Policy, Oil Companies, Offshore Drilling, Water Pollution, Oil, Oil Prices, Environment, Exxon, Green News
Richard Arthur

Let's keep our oil safe in the ground or under our oceans for that time in the future when the price of oil is, well, nationalized and, hence, priceless.

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Plastic Island: Ocean Currents Funnel Trash

New York Times | Donovan Hohn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Plastic Island, Oceans, Plastic Bottles, Pollution, Plastic Bags, Water Pollution, Green News

Off Gore Point, where tide rips collide, the rolling swells rear up and steepen into whitecaps. Quiet with concentration, Chris Pallister decelerates ...

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Cool Ad: Most Dangerous Species (Of Pollution) In The Sea

GreenUpgrader.com | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Advertising, Water Pollution, Mediterranean Sea, Green News

This cool ad by Klas Ernflo was commissioned by the Government of Catalunya to raise environmental awareness and help keep the Mediterranean sea clean...

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Boat Made From Trash Sails the Pacific

WorldChanging.com | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Plastic, Water Pollution, Green News

Several months ago, I returned from a life-changing month at sea with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. We were a crew of six, aboard a 50-foot...

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Your Water Content Might Surprise You

Reuters | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Water Contamination, Water Pollution, Green News

Here is a great database for you to find out the possible contaminants in your tap water.  It was put together by the Environmental Working Group...

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