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Washington State Legalizes Human Composting as Burial Option
2019-05-22 13:13:00| Waste Age
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill making it legal to compost bodies, a process being called recomposition.
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How to handle bovine burial or composting
2018-04-06 11:25:10| Beef
Farmers have limited options for disposing of mortalities if rendering services arent available. An expert offers advice for burying or composting.
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Sacred Burial Grounds Destroyed, Judge Halts Construction on Portion of Dakota Access Pipeline
2016-09-07 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A federal judge in Washington, DC declined Tuesday to order the halt of all construction on a portion of the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) route that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had recently identified as sacred tribal burial ground, a site that was bulldozed over the Labor Day weekend by pipeline construction crews. Hundreds of people marched peacefully on Sept. 4 to protest the destruction of sacred sites and burial grounds in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.Dallas...
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Oil pipeline protest turns violent after American Indian burial sites destroyed
2016-09-04 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent Saturday after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota. Morton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said four private security guards and two guard dogs were injured after several hundred protesters confronted construction crews at the site just outside the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. One of the security officers was...
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Green Burial Aims To Change Death Care Industry
2016-04-11 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Death is inevitable. Billions of people walking on the face of the planet right now will eventually go back to Earth upon death. Usually, people resort to cremation or the traditional burial practices to lay the body to its final resting place. However, studies show that these practices are harmful to the environment. This is why environmentalists recommend "green burial" practices to lessen our environmental impact, even to our death. In a study by the National Industrial Chemicals Notification...
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