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As gas prices go down, bad driving habits go up
Those who don’t learn from history, blah blah blah.
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Feds seek injunction stopping L.A., Long Beach clean-truck effort at ports
The Federal Maritime Commission voted this week to seek an injunction in federal court to halt portions of California’s program to clean up older, dirty trucks at the ports of […]
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High metals content found in some European wines
A study of the metals content of a range of wines from 15 countries found worrisome levels of copper, manganese, and other metals in both red and white wines from […]
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When it rains, tailing ponds above Lima to contaminate drinking water
Peru’s government warned this week that when the rainy season arrives, tailing ponds housing tons of mining waste will likely be destabilized and pour contaminated waste into a nearby river […]
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Overconsumption will have dire consequences, says WWF report
The World Wildlife Fund released its 2008 Living Planet Report on Wednesday, estimating that to maintain current consumption levels, humans will need two planets’ worth of resources by the mid-2030s. […]
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If you thought ignoring financial risks blew up in our faces …
“We have seen the consequences of ignoring risk in the current economic and financial crisis. It has already led to negative growth in rich countries. The risk consequences of ignoring […]
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Prowling Europe’s last lowland old growth forest
While in Poland recently for work, I took a couple days out to see the old growth forest located on the country’s eastern border with Belarus. It’s an incredible place, […]
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Bad air stripping months off Mexicans’ lives, says study
Once upon a time in Mexico, a study estimated that residents would live 2.4 months longer on average if the air they breathe wasn’t so smoggy. According to the research, […]
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60 Minutes on T. Boone Pickens
60 Minutes takes a look at T. Boone Pickens:
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Endangered status of Northern Rockies gray wolves still in question
The fate of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies is up in the air again, as the Bush administration will open yet another period of public comment on whether the […]
