Reuters: Environment:
TORONTO (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips Corp will pay $38,137 for 2009 air quality violations at its 190,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Trainer, Pennsylvania, state environmental regulators said on Friday.
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CJR:
While filming his new documentary, 100 Heartbeats, Jeff Corwin cut off the horn of a black rhino to protect it from poachers, broke four ribs transporting Sumatran orangutans to a wildlife sanctuary, and helped raid a Cambodi (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifies at the Arlington EPA hearing as API's Howard Feldman looks on.This week we saw some amazing public action as part of the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hear (Read More)
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Media tipsheet on USGS scientific presentations at SETAC conference, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. (Read More)
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: "More etha (Read More)
Reuters: Environment:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month's Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact of clima (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Wrapped government buildings and surrounded islands, endless fences and saffron gates: This is the work of Christo and Jean-Claude. Famous for their large-scale installations, the couple has drawn controversy throughout their (Read More)
Mongabay.com News:
Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while C (Read More)
Mongabay.com News:
On October 19th, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysia's national poverty line, according to a story in the (Read More)
TreeHugger:
The Kampar Peninsula is the last large intact area of pear swamp forest in Riau, Indonesia with some of the deepest peat (read: most stored carbon). Photo: Greenpeace.Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
The Kenyan government has begun evicting an estimated 30,000 families that have squatted illegally in the vital Mau forest and caused major environmental damage to the one-million-acre woodland. The Mau forest, located in the (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image via Sulusso.Looking for high-end, luxurious jewelry while being sustainable as well? The pieces found at Sulusso are just that, and so much more. Sulusso is an online marketplace featureing jewelry designers that all ha (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Science Fair:
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have solved one of the great environmental disaster riddles of the last 30 years -- where did the arsenic that has poisoned between two and 25 million people in Bangla (Read More)
TreeHugger:
The sort of destruction trying to be prevented... photo: Greenpeace.Seems the government of Indonesia didn't much like Greenpeace activists trying to disrupt the continued destruction of rainforest as its converted into palm (Read More)
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14/04/2010 — 18/04/2010, Washington, DC USAJoin fellow geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists from around the world in Washington for the very latest in research, policy, and applications in geography, sus (Read More)
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"SIMTER. A Joint Simulation Tool for Production Development"Digital engineering tools and procedures have had a positive impact on the European manufacturing industry. However, to design a sustainable manufacturing system, a (Read More)
edie.net - Latest News:
The US Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft report on two coal ash impoundments at American Electric Power's Philip Sporn facility in West Virginia. (Read More)
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Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency has this week published its Focus on Environmental Enforcement in Ireland report covering 2006 to 2008. (Read More)