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The EnviroLink News Service compiles the most relevant news stories of interest to the global environmental community from sources around the Internet.
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Hazardous flame retardant found in household objects.
A flame retardant that was taken out of childrenâ??s pajamas more than 30 years ago after it was found to cause cancer is being used with increasing regularity in furniture, paint and even baby carriers, and EPA's safety assessment is biased toward industry, again.
Logging and landslides: What went wrong?
When Weyerhaeuser began clear-cutting the Douglas firs on the slopes surrounding Little Mill Creek, local water officials were on edge. They worried new slides could dump sediments into the mountain stream and overwhelm a treatment plant. Those fears came true last December.
Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Logging and landslides: What went wrong?
When Weyerhaeuser began clear-cutting the Douglas firs on the slopes surrounding Little Mill Creek, local water officials were on edge. They worried new slides could dump sediments into the mountain stream and overwhelm a treatment plant. Those fears came true last December.
Coal Industry Hands Out Pink Slips While Green Collar Jobs Take Off
A transition to renewable energy sources promises significant global job gains at a time when the coal industry has been hemorrhaging jobs for years.
China calls for help on climate change
Addressing climate change head-on is in China's best interests, but it needs developed countries to do their fair share, president Hu Jintao said in a speech reported by the Xinhua news agency on Saturday. Hu called on developed countries to "step up efforts" on emission reduction and provide financial and technical support for developing countries.
Greenville injection project could have global implications.
A porous rock layer filled with saltwater that underlies much of the Midwest could permanently store half of the greenhouse gases released in the next century by industries in Ohio and neighboring states.
Brown researchers create mercury-absorbent container linings for broken CFLs
With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished since they were introduced in the United States in 1979, reached nearly 300 million last year. Experts expect that figure to rise steeply by 2012, when a federal law requiring energy-efficient lighting goes into effect.
Border battles: Canada, U.S. increasingly at odds over pollution issues.
After decades of relative cooperation between the nations on either side of the river, border battles over environmental issues are becoming increasingly contentious.
Changes in oil, gas rules draft disappoint.
Revisions to the most comprehensive oil and gas rules in the West have provoked charges from environmental- and wildlife-advocacy groups that the commission is watering down the rules.
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