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Obama aide in geo-engineering row
President Obama`s science adviser got into a spat with the media last week after appearing to advocate geo-engineering as a way to mitigate the effects of global warming. John Holdren, who became the president`s adviser for science and technology in December, was quoted in an interview with the Associated Press suggesting that climate change has become so severe that drastic moves may be required. Geo-engineering involves large engineering projects on a global scale as a means of changing the planet`s climate. Examples that have been proposed include dropping sulphur in the upper reaches of the ... |
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EPA adds nine hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list
The US Environmental Protection Agency is adding nine new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. Also, EPA is proposing to add 13 other sites to the list. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. To date, there have been 1,596 sites listed on the NPL. Of these sites, 332 sites have been deleted resulting in 1,264 final sites currently on the NPL. With the proposal of the 13 new sites, ... |
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EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced $25 to $35 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the New Bedford ...
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