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Chemicals Released During Natural Gas Extraction May Harm Human Reproduction And Development
2014-12-18 01:25:34| oilandgasonline Home Page
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release natural gas from underground rock.
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EPA Takes Action To Protect Consumers From Harmful Chemicals That Can Cause Reproductive And Developmental Harm
2014-12-15 01:53:58| pollutiononline Home Page
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to protect the public from seven ethylene glycol ethers or glymes chemicals that can cause health effects including birth defects and blood toxicity
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Big oil must pay for climate change harm worlds poorest
2014-12-05 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The residents of the Philippines region of Tacloban know what loss and damage from climate change looks like. This weekend, this exact same region is now bracing for super typhoon Hagupit, due to hit on Saturday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm. Hagupit comes almost exactly a year after Haiyans six metre storm surge flattened the area. Some 6,300 people of Tacloban paid with their lives and four million of their friends and relatives paid with their houses. Someone has to pay for climate...
Geo-engineering: Climate fixes 'could harm billions'
2014-11-26 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Schemes to tackle climate change could prove disastrous for billions of people, but might be required for the good of the planet, scientists say. That is the conclusion of a new set of studies into what's become known as geo-engineering. This is the so far unproven science of intervening in the climate to bring down temperatures. These projects work by, for example, shading the Earth from the Sun or soaking up carbon dioxide. Ideas include aircraft spraying out sulphur particles at high...
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VIDEO: 'EU vote will not harm economy'
2014-11-10 15:08:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A referendum on Britain's membership of the EU will not damage the UK economy, David Cameron tells business leaders.
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