Tag: water
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Iraq Waterkeeper Receives Goldman Environmental Prize
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE — The Goldman Environmental Prize, the nobel prize of environmental activism, will this year honor Iraq Waterkeeper Dr. Azzam Alwash, founder of Nature Iraq. Dr. Alwash was one of six recipients worldwide …
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13 Spills in 30 Days
TCKTCKTCK — Moving oil is a dirty business, and never has that been more clear than this past month. Since March 11, the global oil industry has had 13 spills on three continents. In North and South America alone …
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Waterkeeper Magazine: Climate Wars—Stories from the Frontlines
WATERKKEEPER ALLIANCE — “Last year was the hottest year on record in the United States,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes in his article, Why I Got Arrested at the White House, that leads off this issue. “More than half the country suffered …
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How President Obama’s Budget Will Impact the Environment
ECOWATCH — Today, President Obama released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2014. In the proposal, he calls for ending billions of dollars in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, supporting the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund, and cutting U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Services …
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The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic with a Floating ‘Ocean Cleanup Array’
5 GYRES — The solution to this problem isn’t elegant, and there exists no silver bullet. The first step in solving the problem is to personally lower your plastic consumption. The next steps are to get involved in cleanups, get involved in campaigns to …