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Fracking poses 'significant' risk to humans and should be temporarily banned across EU
2015-06-20 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A major new scientific study has concluded that the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking poses a significant risk to human health and British wildlife, and that an EU-wide moratorium should be implemented until widespread regulatory reform is undertaken. The damning report by the CHEM Trust, the British charity that investigates the harm chemicals cause humans and wildlife, highlights serious shortcomings in the UKs regulatory regime, which the report says will only get...
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Sugarcane cultivation should be banned in Marathwada: Madhav Chitale
2015-06-15 08:02:01| Sugar Industry News
Water management expert Madhav Chitale has said the state government should enforce a ban on sugar cultivation in districts that receive less than 700 mm rainfall, to effectively tackle the problems of financial crisis in the sugar industry.
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'Underweight model' advert banned
2015-06-03 11:17:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
An Yves Saint Laurent advertisement featuring an "unhealthily underweight" model is banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
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France now heralds ecological revolution: All plastic bags to be banned
2015-05-30 11:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: In month of May in 1789, the simmering debate between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy on the proposed royal reforms sparked the French revolution. It quickly spilled all over the country. The 'commons' or so called 'Third Estate' started holding their own assembly. Within a space of six months, by December, prison of Bastille and palace of Versailles were stormed and the debate on new structures that included, inter alia, principles of legal equality, began to set in. This week, on May 26,...
When will plastic carrier bags be banned?
2015-05-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hold on to the dream! The 5p plastic bag levy takes effect on 5 October in England following (sluggishly) in the footsteps of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (where in the first year the 5p charge saw the use of plastic bags drop by 96%). But weve been close before with legislation in 2008 the seven major UK supermarkets signed up to reduce the number of carrier bags by 50% yet later dropped this in favour of reporting how many they gave out. In the US theres constant pressure from...
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