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Can trading pollution like stocks help fight climate change?
The gas produced by hog manure at farms across the U.S. punches holes in the ozone layer, overheats the planet, and angers neighbors with its peculiar odor, a mix of rotten egg and ammonia. All that`s needed to clear the air is to cover the manure ...
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USA water challenges are many, but so are the solutions
Many of the nation`s water-supply systems need expensive improvements. And in the West and elsewhere, utilities are focused on finding enough water to meet demand. Although the problems are complex, experts generally agree on some basic solutions. ...
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A look at some contaminants regulated in drinking water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates just over 90 contaminants in public drinking water systems. They include manmade chemicals as well as naturally occurring contaminants from rocks and soil. A look at some of the contaminants that ...
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Questions and answers about damaging oilfield wastewater
As U.S. oil and gas production increased this past decade, so, too, did spills of salty oilfield wastewater that can foul the land, kill wildlife and threaten freshwater supplies. An Associated Press analysis of 11 states found more than 175 million ...
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Questions and answers about damaging oilfield wastewater
As U.S. oil and gas production increased this past decade, so, too, did spills of salty oilfield wastewater that can foul the land, kill wildlife and threaten freshwater supplies. An Associated Press analysis of 11 states found more than 180 million ...
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Q&A: A look at Shell Oil and Arctic offshore drilling
Shell Oil drill vessels are heading to the Arctic. But they will not be permitted to drill into petroleum-bearing rock until a key piece of blowout response equipment, a capping stack, is on site. The capping stack is carried on the icebreaker ...
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UN climate chief: Paris to set 50-year agenda
The December climate change conference in Paris is the last chance for a meaningful agreement that would offer hope for a planet at risk due to greenhouse gases, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said Wednesday. Figueres is deep into ...
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China readies national carbon market to fight climate change
BEIJING (AP) - At first, the numbers and company names flashing on a big board in Beijing`s financial district suggest a booming market. A closer look indicates otherwise: The scrolling list rotates the same dozen or so trades, all from last ...
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What`s at Stake: The debate over Arctic Drilling
Royal Dutch Shell is planning to park two massive Arctic oil drilling rigs in Seattle`s waterfront before they head north - but the petrochemical giant will first have to get around protesters in kayaks and others who want to thwart the new frontier ...
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Talking turkey: How bird flu outbreaks are playing out
A deadly strain of bird flu has reached the Midwest, killing or requiring hundreds of thousands of turkeys to be euthanized. Some questions and answers about the outbreak: WHAT KIND OF FLU IS THIS, EXACTLY? H5N2 is a highly contagious virus that ...
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Exxon CEO talks Arctic oil drilling, risks, lessons
The Arctic is the next great frontier for oil and gas - and one of the most environmentally fragile places on earth. An Energy Department advisory council study adopted last week said the U.S. should start exploring for oil and gas in the Arctic ...
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Things to know about the federal government`s nuke dump
Valentine`s Day 2014 was coming to a close. There were fewer than a dozen workers holding down the night shift at the federal government`s nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico. An alarm sounded inside the central monitoring room less ...
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Who pays? Who cuts emissions? 5 issues for UN climate deal
World governments are hoping that this year will mark a breakthrough in the slow-paced U.N. climate talks. In Geneva this week, negotiators from more than 190 countries are working on a draft of a deal that`s supposed to be adopted in Paris in ...
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Oil on wild ride; How will it end?
The price of oil is on a wild ride, and there is little agreement on where it`s headed. After falling nearly 60 percent from a peak last June, the price of oil bounced back more than 20 percent as January turned to February. Then, on Tuesday, it ...
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Answers to questions about oil waste in California aquifers
California, the country`s third-largest oil-producing state, has improperly given oil companies more than 2,500 permits to inject production fluids and oilfield waste into underground water supplies that are used for drinking water or irrigation, ...
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Questions and answers about oil and gas wastewater spills
Nearly 3 million gallons of briny water generated by crude oil production has leaked from a North Dakota pipeline and reached two creeks, making it the biggest spill of this type of wastewater since the state`s Bakken formation oil boom began in ...
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5 things to know about Obama`s next climate move: methane
The Obama administration on Wednesday announced its latest move to combat global warming, this time trying to rein in heat-trapping methane gas that escapes from oil and gas fields. The plan relies on voluntary steps and new rules to reduce leaks ...
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Forgotten asbestos mine sickens Indian villagers
Asbestos waste spills in a gray gash down the flank of a lush green hill above tribal villages that are home to thousands in eastern India. Three decades after the mines were abandoned, nothing has been done to remove the enormous, hazardous piles ...
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`This Changes Everything` tackles global warming
"This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" (Simon & Schuster), by Naomi Klein Cutting the vast amounts of man-made pollution that feed global warming is an enormous challenge for societies that gobble up coal, oil and gas. But in ...
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A look at California`s landmark plastic bag ban
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the nation`s first statewide ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, following the lead of more than 100 California cities and counties. The fight between environmentalists and manufacturers is not ...