Chemicals of Concern

As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the US EPA today announced a series of actions on four chemicals raising serious potential health or environmental concerns, including phthalates

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Chemicals of Concern

Brazil Announces National Policy on Climate Change

Brazil’s President introduced national legislation that will guide efforts to reduce projected emissions by 36.1 to 38.9 percent by 2020. This legislation comes on the heels of the COP-15 climate change conference held in Copenhagen earlier this month, and demonstrates Brazil’s eagerness to make significant and immediate progress against global climate change.

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Industry Agrees to Phase Out DecaBDE Flame Retardant

Following negotiations with the U.S.

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Arctic pipeline conditionally approved

The C$16.2 billion ($15.4 billion) Mackenzie pipeline in Canada’s Arctic should be allowed to proceed, provided 176 recommendations aimed at securing socioeconomic benefits and minimizing environmental damage are followed, regulators ruled on Wednesday.

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$100 Billion Opportunity for Waste-To-Energy Companies in Developing World

Here’s an opportunity to wisely spend some of the $100 billion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised at Copenhagen to cut the greenhouse gases of developing nations by aiding in the development of renewable energy infrastructure to by-pass fossil fuel dependence. Apparently one in four Chinese cities and seven out of 10 counties are without sewage-treatment plants, according to the People’s Daily. While there are many ways to treat sewage or municipal waste; one of the newest is the use of municipal solid waste to make renewable energy.

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Volcano Monitoring to Benefit from Stimulus Funds

The US Geological Survey will use Recovery Act funding to improve its ability to monitor volcanoes and to predict their eruptions. Some of the funds will be used to modernize instrumentation and information systems to state-of-the-art, providing the necessary tools to communicate hazard information quickly to those who need it. The United States and its territories contain 169 volcanoes considered capable of erupting.

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The Unfrozen North

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. This has happened before. Scientists have documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3 to 3 million years ago).

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Rare Rhinos Relocated from Czech Republic to Kenya

This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launched an audacious bid to save one of the world’s rarest animals: the northern white rhinoceros.

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Rare Rhinos Relocated from Czech Republic to Kenya

Snow cover hampers harvest of U.S. corn crop

As much as 100 million bushels of U.S.

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Fountain of Youth Discovered?

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB ) has published an important research paper that shows a clear link between calorie intake and the lifespan of human cells. Researchers from the have discovered that restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life of healthy human-lung cells and speed the death of precancerous human-lung cells, reducing cancer’s spread and growth rate.

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