Tag: water
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Obama Nominates Gina McCarthy as U.S. EPA Administrator
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — “If you take a look at what’s recently happened with Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” McCarthy recently said. “You will realize that there are tremendous opportunities to address climate change in ways that build the economy, that grow jobs, that you can …
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Sequester Cuts: How It Will Strain the Economy and Put Americans’ Health at Risk
DESMOGBLOG — Not only will the sequester cuts put a tremendous strain on our economy as a whole, but the health effects that will result from more pollution and less monitoring will become …
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Tell Attorney General Holder: No Tax Write-Offs for BP for Spilling Oil
OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL — We need your help to tell Attorney General Eric Holder that we won’t stand for our government allowing BP to take a tax write-off for devastating the Gulf …
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The Low-Down on How Sequestration Would Impact Environmental Health
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — If sequestration, the series of automatic budget cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011, goes into effect as scheduled on March 1, it will have a disastrous impact on …
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Pirates of Greed Get Away with Murder: Appeals Court Favors Japanese Whale Poachers
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — The Institute for Cetacean Research, which is an arm of the Japanese government, is really a pirate organization masquerading as a scientific research group …