positive Land news
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Mexico City bans free plastic bagsMexico - A new law has come into effect in Mexico City giving the authorities the power to fine shops which give away free plastic bags to their customers. |
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Cleanup of Superfund Site Completed in Morris County, New JerseyThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has successfully completed the cleanup of a superfund site in Long Hill Township and Harding Township, Morris County, NJ. |
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New Zealand retracts plans to open up rare frog habitat to miningIt was hoped for, but not certain until Tuesday when the government of New Zealand announced it was cancelling a controversial proposal to open up parts of conservation areas to mining. |
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Car Tires Fuel Green Shoe RevolutionoleRebels is a game-changing shoe company in the heart of Addis Ababa, the ancient capital of Ethiopia. The business makes shoes from old rubber tires and tubes with each one hand cut into soles. |
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California to ban plastic bagsCalifornia is to become the first US state to ban plastic bags in supermarkets in a move Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a "great victory for the environment." |
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Spill Fight Shows ProgressBP PLC had its first breakthrough in the effort to stem the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using robots to insert one end of a mile-long tube into a shattered oil pipe on the ocean floor. The goal is to siphon up some, if not most, of the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. |
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China Scientists Find Use For Cigarette ButtsChemical extracts from cigarette butts -- so toxic they kill fish -- can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, a study in China has found. |
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Russian PM Putin Orders Arctic CleanupRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered that a million abandoned barrels of Soviet-era fuel be removed from the Arctic because they are polluting the environment. |
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Everest ‘death zone’ to be cleaned upA team of 20 Nepalese Sherpas are planning to clean up rubbish and bring the bodies of dead climbers down from the top of Mount Everest. |
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Chemical Safety Reform Gains Momentum in CongressTwo bills in Congress would dramatically strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) ability to regulate chemicals. The bills shift the burden of proof to industry, which would have to demonstrate the safety of existing and new chemicals. That's a major change from the existing system, in which EPA must prove that chemicals are harmful before it can regulate them. |
evironmental news headlines
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
- A splinter of hope in the fight against illegal logging
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Cleanup of Superfund Site Completed in Morris County, New Jersey
- New Zealand retracts plans to open up rare frog habitat to mining
- Penalties promised for illegal wood sales
- EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science
- Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show
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