Category: Green Building LEED News
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Ontario Closes Last Coal Plant, Shell Greenlighted for More Tar Sands
That’s Canada these days – progressive parts of the country lead on climate change, while the rest exacerbates it.
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PAC Forms to Protect, Expand US Public Lands
This is the first Congress that hasn’t preserved a single acre of land, and Salazar’s PAC wants to change that.
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Offshore Wind Would Protect Cities From Hurricanes
Wind speeds would have been cut in half during Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy if an offshore wind farm was there.
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Dear Sen. Rockefeller: Call ‘Time Out’ on Mountaintop Removal
Four years after the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s frank admission that “most members of Congress, like most Americans, oppose the practice” of mountaintop removal mining, “and we may not yet fully understand the effects of mountaintop removal mining on the health of our citizens,” West Virginia residents traveled to Washington, DC to make a special appeal to…
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FDA’s New Voluntary Antibiotics Policy Fails to Protect Human Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued new guidelines regarding use of antibiotics in food animals that are not sick. Under the new rules, food animal producers no longer be able to use antibiotics to make animals grow faster. If producers need to give the drugs to a sick animal, they will have to get a…