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Groups Initiate Federal Court Battle to Stop Illegal Coal Pollution
2013-01-24 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last March 22 on world water day, Waterkeepers all over the world took action to fight for swimmable, fishable and drinkable waters. Each Waterkeeper chose the issues they felt were the greatest concern to the health of their local community and waterway. The French Broad Riverkeeper and the Western North Carolina Alliance decided to spend world water day gathering hundreds of community members together to call for an end to air and water pollution from the Progress Energy coal fired power plant...
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NYPD unveils radiation scanner to catch people with illegal guns
2013-01-24 05:23:19| CNET News.com
Despite being controversial, the city's police plan to start using machines that can tell from a distance whether someone is carrying a concealed weapon. [Read more]
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Food Manufacturers Challenged over Illegal Imports
2013-01-24 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - British pig farmers are challenging food manufacturers, retailers and caterers to give a public commitment that they are not selling illegally-produced meat from farms that are flouting new European welfare legislation outlawing the prolonged confinement of sows in individual cages, known as “stalls”.
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Illegal oil refineries in the Niger Delta in pictures
2013-01-17 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Nigerian-born Reuters photographer Akintunde Akinleye won a World Press Photo award in 2007. He documents the dangerous practice of illegal oil refining in the Niger Delta, which damages the environment and the health of local people
How to catch illegal logging in the Amazon? Make the trunk call
2013-01-16 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Trees in Brazils Amazon rainforest are being fitted with mobile phones in an attempt to tackle illegal logging and deforestation. Devices smaller than a pack of cards are being attache d to the trees in protected areas to alert officials once they are cut down and the logs are transported. Location data is sent from sensors once the logs are within 20 miles of a mobile phone network to allow Brazils environment agency to stop the sale of illegal timber. The technology, called Invisible Tracck,...
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