Tag: Biodiversity
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Shell Abandons 2013 Arctic Drilling
ECOWATCH — After a year of embarrassing failures and accidents, Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday it would not drill in the Arctic this year …
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Gold Mine Planned for Southwest Alaska Threatens Environment and Local Communities
ALASKANS FOR RESPONSIBLE MINING — The Kuskokwim region is at a crossroads. A massive gold mine is planned at Crooked Creek, a tributary of the Kuskokwim. With an estimated 27 year production run churning out more than one million ounces of gold per year, the Donlin Gold mine would require …
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100 Million+ Americans Exposed to Toxic Drinking Water
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — A new Environmental Working Group analysis of 2011 water quality tests by 201 large U.S. municipal water systems that serve more than 100 million people in 43 states has determined that all are polluted with unwanted toxic …
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Will American Taxpayers Continue to Foot the Bill for BP’s Gulf Oil Disaster?
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL — This essentially means that the American tax payer would be paying the largest payout from the spill. They are paying twice over: first for a devastated Gulf and now out of their pocket. Kind of makes you feel …
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Rising Sea Levels Could Spark Largest Migration of Displaced People in History
THE HUNGRY TIDE — Kiribati is expected to be one of the first countries to disappear as a result of climate change. Sea level rise and increasing salinity are threatening the homes and lives of 105,000 residents spread over …