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Marilyn Heiman, director of the Pew Environment Group’s U.S. Arctic Program, issued the following statement in response to today’s release of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Arctic Ocean science review:
"We are pleased that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the USGS put a high priori...
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A Judge turned the tables on an oil company today by asking it to release its secret Arctic Oil Spill Response Plan instead of granting it the multi million euro injunction it was seeking to end Greenpeace protests.
Cairn Energy was seeking an injunction to prevent Greenpeace from protest...
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The international community, gathered today at the pledging conference in Kiev, is contributing additional €550 million to the efforts to transform the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant into an environmentally safe site and create the conditions for a long-term solution for reactor 4 which was...
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The fact that the world’s leading synthetic rubber company Lanxess (Australia) has brought forward its plans to build a new butyl rubber facility in Singapore is a strong message for all Australian companies relying on rubber components to maximise this premium.
More so, it is the planet’...
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The operation and decommissioning of nuclear sites and the operation of non-nuclear sectors such as medicine, oil and gas facilities is forecast to produce significant quantities of very low level radioactive solid wastes over future decades. Only one facility in the UK is able to deal wit...
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Riverkeeper (USA) has filed a legal petition forcing the EPA to take action on a rule that sets the standards for how toxic cement kiln dust (CKD) is managed by cement producers around the country. This byproduct of cement manufacturing is often dumped into unlined landfills, and old quarr...
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