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Londons first cruise terminal: tourism goldmine or dangerous polluter?
2015-08-20 01:00:00| Ship Technology
A proposal to build Londons first cruise terminal recently received approval, three years after being granted initial planning permission. While supporters hailed its exciting economic potential as a landmark borough development, residents and campa
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Walker wants be 'polluter in chief'
2015-07-16 08:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Aspen Times: Aw, jeez , now Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is running, formally, for the top job in the U.S., a fact that should make everybody, old and young alike, tremble uncontrollably. Everyone except his Republican buddies, I guess, since they are greeting his candidacy with high-fives and whoops of joy at the idea of his becoming "Polluter In Chief." After doing everything he could to ruin the State of Wisconsin, he wants to turn his spotlight of destruction on the entire country by somehow fooling...
Saving China from itself: How world's biggest polluter dealing with climate change
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The undulating hills of Ningxia have been home for Hai Zhengjun ever since he chiselled out a cave shelter on the side of a ridge with a pickaxe and shovel in the 1970s. The 64-year-old has learned never to take water for granted, having spent all his life rearing sheep and sowing crops of wheat and corn in an area environmentalists identify as among China's driest and most ecologically vulnerable. The central and southern parts of the region, which sprawl across the Loess Plateau and are home...
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Chemical Polluter Convicted in Massive Scheme to Deceive the EPA
2015-07-04 22:02:50| Automakers - Topix.net
Michael J. Conrad, an Escondido chemist whose company was previously convicted of environmental crimes in federal court in 2012, pleaded guilty to a new charge this morning, this time admitting that he submitted false documents to the Environmental Protection Agency to obscure his involvement in the prior federal case and avoid becoming ineligible for federal contracts. Conrad pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mitchell Dembin to one count of making false statements.
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Government of Canada introduces legislation to strengthen rail safety and accountability; polluter pays
2015-02-21 19:55:34| Green Car Congress
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