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Even if You're Careful, Drugs Can End Up in Water
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February 7, 2010 - New York Times
| | Portland, Maine -- A study in Maine shows that unused or expired medications that are thrown into the trash are showing up in landfill water, potentially putting aquatic life at risk. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection found tiny amounts of discarded drugs in water at three landfills in the state, confirming suspicions that pharmaceuticals thrown into household trash are ending up in landfills.
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Chinese Environmental Group Wins 2 Cases
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December 18, 2009 - CBS News
| | Beijing -- An environmental group backed by the government said Friday it had won two lawsuits on behalf of residents threatened by pollution, marking the first time such an organization has been allowed to file a public interest case.
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Dirty Air, Heat, Cold May All Trigger Heart Attacks
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November 9, 2009 - ABC News
| | New York -- Extreme temperatures and heavy air pollution boost heart attack risk, according to a major new study. And on days when the air is extra dirty and the temperature is unusually hot or cold, the effects are likely to be particularly bad, given that temperature and pollution seem to harm the body in different ways, Dr. Krishnan Bhaskaran of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, the lead author of the research, told Reuters Health.
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EPA To Impose Standards On PVC Plant Emissions
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November 5, 2009 - CBS News
| | New Orleans -- The Environmental Protection Agency will set new nationwide emission standards for makers of polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as the plastic PVC, under a settlement with environmental groups announced Thursday. EPA has agreed to set emission standards by July 29, 2011, for PVC manufacturers as part of a settlement with three environmental groups that sued EPA last year for failing to impose emission standards on PVC manufacturers in Louisiana.
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Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Going National
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October 30, 2009 - CBS News
| | Morgantown, W.Va. -- Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
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EPA Plans to Veto Surface Mining Permit in W.Va.
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October 17, 2009 - CBS News
| | Charleston, W.Va. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it planned to use its authority for the first time to revoke a previously issued permit for a West Virginia surface mine. Acting EPA Regional Administrator William Early said in a letter sent to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Huntington district that the agency is "taking this unusual step in response to our very serious concerns" that the project could violate the Clean Water Act.
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The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live
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October 16, 2009 - Mother Nature Network
| | As the world's population balloons to almost 7 billion, it's become more and more difficult to find anywhere on Earth unaffected by man-made pollution and development, and far too often it takes things going really wrong before people take action to keep our planet clean. So here's a list that might help to motivate: The 15 most polluted places in the world.
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Apple Expands Environmental Disclosures
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September 30, 2009 - New York Times
| | Apple last week updated its Apple and the Environment Web site to include a life cycle impact section that, the company says, accounts for its total carbon footprint of 10.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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EPA Seeks to Limit Plane Deicing Chemical Runoff
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September 29, 2009 - ABC News
| | Des Moines, Iowa -- Proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations would require airports to capture at least some of the deicing fluid after it is used to rid planes of ice and snow. The agency says those rules would reduce by 22 percent the discharge of chemicals, which lower oxygen levels in waterways and prevent fish and other aquatic creatures from breathing.
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EPA Tells Schools To Test Aging Caulk For PCBs
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September 28, 2009 - CBS News
| | Washington -- Hundreds of school buildings across the United States have caulk around windows and doors containing potentially cancer-causing PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency says. EPA now recommends testing for PCBs in peeling, brittle, cracking or deteriorating caulk in schools and other buildings that were built or renovated between 1950 and 1978. The caulk should be removed if PCBs are found at significant levels, the agency said.
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Mercury-Tainted Fish Found Widely in U.S. Streams
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August 20, 2009 - Reuters UK
| | Los Angeles -- Scientists have detected mercury contamination in every one of hundreds of fish sampled from 291 freshwater streams, according to a U.S. government study.
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TVA Says Hazard Rating 'High' at 4 Coal Ash Sites
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July 17, 2009 - MSNBC
| | Knoxville, TN -- The Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday significantly raised the hazard potential for several of its coal ash sites in a self-assessment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, suggesting people living near four sites could die if an ash pond ruptured.
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