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Environmental Health News
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Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
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Pa. residents sue gas driller for contamination, health concerns.
Pennsylvania residents whose streams and fields have been damaged by toxic spills and whose drinking water has allegedly been contaminated by drilling for natural gas are suing the Houston-based energy company that drilled the wells.
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EPA tangles with Texas in battle over air quality.
A more assertive Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that Texas tighten its pollution rules, drawing the ire of companies and some of the state's political leaders.
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Eco-alchemy in Alberta.
There's a roaring debate in Canada about whether tailings ponds, and oil mines in general, are ecologically salvageable?specifically, whether they can ever support the same flora and fauna as undisturbed land.
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A cleaner coal?
Underground coal gasification is one of a handful of techniques being tested across the West to make coal--the cheapest, most plentiful fuel around--more palatable to a carbon-constrained world.
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Air panel urged to deny pollution permit for Xcel coal plant.
Neighborhood, university, religious and other group representatives packed a state air-quality regulators' hearing Thursday night ? pushing for cleaner energy.
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Energy leaders back climate change deal.
Energy industry leaders on Thursday called for an international deal on climate change to tackle financial uncertainty and prevent potentially catastrophic global warming.
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Australia carbon deal failure may spur poll.
A senior Australian government minister said Friday that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could call an early election if Parliament fails to pass his carbon trading program.
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Dusty thinking settles across wide brown land.
Amid a pitched battle for the centre of the Liberal Party, ACCI's chief executive Peter Anderson managed to align the country's biggest business group - with those in the Opposition who would do nothing to address climate change, perhaps ever.
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The global heat is on.
The Earth's natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide is declining and global temperatures are on course to rise by 6°C by the end of the century, according to a study.
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A renewable energy lobby seeks power in Brussels.
The European Renewable Energy Council thinks renewables could supply 100 percent of Europe's future energy needs.
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Clean, green goo to power engines.
A handful of scientists and venture capitalists are willing to gamble on the next big thing, believing a bright green future lies in pond scum.
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Google spywear will help vigilantes save rainforests.
Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.
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Saskatchewan premier takes green scheme south.
Brad Wall is finding open doors on Washington's Capitol Hill and at the White House, as he pitches the province's carbon capture and shoratage projects for one of the U.S.'s biggest emissions problems ? greenhouse gases released from aging coal-fired power plants.
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The hidden costs of fossil fuels - and biofuels, too.
The 'hidden' costs of burning fossil fuels and biofuels aren't factored into their market prices, but someone has to pay them.
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Details on US-China climate and energy plans.
Appearing with President Hu Jintao, President Obama on Tuesday told reporters that the United States was determined to work with China and other countries to help produce a substantive agreement in Copenhagen climate talks next month.
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Coal company source of big political gifts.
The coal company that has found itself embroiled in controversy over the firing of a key state mining regulator has been a major contributor to political campaigns and committees in Kentucky the past five years.
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Climate change negotiations hit stumbling block.
Climate change negotiations between the Rudd Government and the Opposition have hit a stumbling block just days before an agreement was to be taken to the Coalition party room.
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Turnbull loses vital ETS ally.
Malcom Turnbull is facing a growing shadow of cabinet pressure to vote down the government's emissions trading bills, with former minister Tony Abbott abandoning his earlier support for the Opposition Leader's strategy to try to amend and pass the scheme.
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Adaptation is the name of the game.
Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbors, said one scientist.
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What drives China? Soon, cleaner fuel.
Lorry driver Zhang Jianwei isn't worried about cleaner fuel requirements that come into force in China next year, raising the price of motor fuels -- he will just keep buying cheaper, dirtier diesel at smaller stations.
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