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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - A Siberian section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that stores vast amounts of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and is venting the potent greenhouse gas, an international research team reported Friday.
The permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - The Supreme Court today sided with environmental advocates by declining to review a lower court ruling that forbid the U.S. EPA to exempt industrial polluters from regular emissions standards during "startup, shutdown and malfunction" events.
Atrazine, a weed killer commonly used in the Midwest to combat broadleaf pest plants that ail crops, has been found to cause severe hormone imbalances in laboratory animals. The pesticide, which is a known endocrine disruptor, is the most activley detected pesticide in USGS ground and surface water...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding 10 new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. The listings make these sites eligible to receive federal funds for long-term...
MAJURO, Marshall Islands, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - Fifty-six years after the first American hydrogen bomb blast in the Pacific exposed hundreds of people to radioactive fallout, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman is pressing Marshall Islanders to return to their contaminated home island by next year.
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"Cap and Trade is dead," said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) last weekend. Graham, working in a bipartisan effort with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) and Joe Lieberman (I-Con) confirmed that the group would be abandoning cap and trade in their last effort to pass a climate bill before the midterm electi...
SACRAMENTO, California, March 2, 2010 (ENS) - The California Air Resources Board has adopted a measure developed with representatives of the electrical utilities that will limit and monitor the emissions of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, from high-voltage electrical applications.
Environmental groups were delighted to hear that major US firms, from the Pentagon to Shell Oil, were pulling out of their controversial Canadian tar sands projects. The development program, which extracts crude oil from sediment at three to four times the total carbon footprint, has been the target...
Environmentalists with the Environmental Working Group released a report last Tuesday that attacks the natural gas industry's extraction methods. Hydraulic fracturing, the process of blasting water, sand, and solvents deep underground to break up and dissolve rock formations, has become a standard p...
Researchers have been perplexed for over a decade as to why air quality continues to decline in California despite having the strictest emissions regulations in the country. While most other cities have improved, Western cities and even rural areas with very little vehicle traffic experience the poo...
