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Baucus, Tester, and Crapo Bill to Eliminate Wildlife and Forest Protections
Senators Baucus, Tester, and Crapo have proposed a bill (S. 3381), which would eliminate critical forest and land safeguards for biomass production.
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Massive tax subsidies to nuclear in Kerry-Lieberman legislation
Three Tax Breaks for Nuclear Power in Kerry-Lieberman Will Cost Up to $57.3 Billion for 22 Reactors Read the new analysis exposing these tax breaks
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Groups Urge ‘No Role’ for the World Bank in Managing Climate Funds
The success of global climate negotiations – and the fight against climate change – largely depend on developed countries meeting their responsibilities to transfer hundreds of billions o…
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Protect people, not oil companies
Last week, BP’s “top kill” effort, in which mud and other objects were forced into the blown-out oil well in the gulf to try and stanch the flow of oil, failed. Now, BP engineers are attempting to…
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Bonn Negotiations, May 31st-June 11th, 2010: U.S. Submission
Last December, President Obama accepted a Nobel Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” and his “constructive role in meeting the…
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Why are nanosunscreens still unlabelled and unregulated on the market?
Furthermore, none of the nanocosmetics or nanosunscreens on the U.S. market are subject to a premarket safety assessment by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would require special tests…
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Nano in the Gulf oil spill: Two wrongs don’t make a right
A corporation has asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve one of their products containing manufactured nanoparticles for oil clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. We
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Bioenergy in the Draft American Power Act
Bioenergy has long been presented as the sustainable alternative to crude oil and natural gas. Though science suggests that bioenergy is unsustainable and has the potential to cause severe ecologi…