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Global report reveals dire state of fisheries, worsening air pollution

2016-01-26 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a Yale-based initiative that evaluates how 180 countries protect ecosystems and human health, finds cause for both optimism and serious concern. The world's nations have expanded access to water and sanitation while creating more protected areas than ever before, yet countries have failed to reverse degradation of air quality and decline in fisheries, the report finds. The EPI, which measures national and global protection of ecosystems and human health...

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Independent report confirms state made mistakes, but not "intentional" ones in Flint water crisis

2015-12-29 09:44:15| Waste Management - Topix.net

In a letter to State Senator Jim Ananich, Auditor General Doug Ringler answers several key questions about the state's role in the decision to switch to the Flint River and how Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality dealt with those decisions. Ringler's review confirms it was the state appointed emergency manager who made the decision to switch to the Flint River, not city leaders.

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