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Obama Calls for Climate Deal, U.S. Target Under Fire

President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Thursday to break the deadlock at climate change talks in Copenhagen, although many nations accused the United States of lacking ambition. In a move that could boost Obama’s position when world leaders join the U.N

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Dairy Pollution Sparks ‘Manure War’ in New Mexico

The New Mexico Environment Department reports that two-thirds of the state’s 150 dairies are contaminating groundwater with excess nitrogen from cattle excrement. Either the waste lagoons are leaking, or manure is being applied too heavily on farmland.

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Real Christmas Trees are ‘Greener’ than Fake

It may not sound like “tree-hugging,” but cutting down a real tree for Christmas is actually greener than going with the artificial kind.

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Real Christmas Trees are ‘Greener’ than Fake

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Creation of International Packaging Standards Underway

Experts from 15 countries are meeting this week to begin developing standards to cover environmental issues related to packaging such as reuse, recycling and composting. The gathering will focus on seven standards covering source reduction, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, chemical recovery, composting and biodegrading.

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EU leaders seek treaty, climate change deals

European Union leaders hope to reach a deal at a summit this week removing the last obstacles to a treaty to give the bloc more global clout, but face a battle over funding for a global climate change agreement. Failure to break the deadlock would risk leaving the 27-country bloc looking impotent when it is trying to strengthen its role on the world stage and the influence of emerging powers such as China is growing following the economic crisis.

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G8 Urges Economic Stability Measures, Fails to Pass Climate Bill

Today in L’Aquila, Italy, the Group of 8 (G8) Summit failed to pass unanimously a climate bill which would have mandated halving of global CO2 emissions by 2050 as part of the Group’s larger economic-stabilization plan.

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Greening the Fast Food Industry

The world is becoming a greener place. I see hybrids on the road more than any other car. Fortune 500 companies are totally rethinking their corporate operations in an attempt to be more sustainable.

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Greening the Fast Food Industry