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- Pesticides, Teflon, and What's Wrong with Our Chemical Policies – Matthew Wheeland
- USGS Finds Sources for New Jersey-Sized Dead Zone in Gulf – Matthew Wheeland
- Eco-Friendly Moving Companies Rapidly Gaining Customers – Ariel Schwartz
- Green Truck Puts a Sustainable Spin on the Lunch Truck – Ariel Schwartz
- Pondering the Sustainable Consumption Conundrum – Joel Makower
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The Big PictureEnergy prices and atmospheric temperatures are rising -- putting energy efficiency on everyone's front burner as a smart environmental and business practice.
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The average company could recycle half of the waste it produces. The environmental benefits seem obvious, but are businesses really considering waste reduction as a means to cut costs? The Xerox Corporation has, and this 155-page guide and accompanying workbook will help other businesses to do so as well.
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The Big PictureBecause traditional, nonrenewable energy sources such as oil and coal harm the environment in their extraction, processing, delivery, and use, customers say they are willing to pay more, if necessary, for cleaner energy
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Pollution Prevention (P2)
It doesn’t take a leap of faith to understand that the best way to reduce toxic emissions is to not make them in the first place. That’s the simple idea behind pollution prevention: the "best" pollution is the one you never create. Putting that into practice has led companies to re-examine their products and processes with an eye to reducing or eliminating toxic ingredients, recycling or reusing chemicals to keep them out of the waste stream, and using a wide range of alternative materials to replace polluting ones.
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A new EPA ruling, and a nearly unrelated court ruling, highlight the challenges the country faces in trying to weed out the use of harmful chemicals in food, products, and manufacturing.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Casting a broad net to keep as much potentially toxic electronic waste out of developing countries, Dell today laid out its company-wide policy and challenged other IT firms and legislators to take the same stance.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The new rules apply to all Toxics Release Inventory reports due July 1, and will increase the amount of information that companies must disclose about their releases of toxic chemicals across the country.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- A Colorado-based nonprofit has created a calculator that estimates the amount of chemicals avoided through organic dairy farming in the U.S.
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Every year, excess fertilizers and animal manure flows down the Mississippi River and empties and increasingly large swath of the Gulf of Mexico completely lifeless. Now, the U.S. Geological Survey has pinpointed the top 150 culprits.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Energy will spend $6 billion in stimulus funds cleaning up Cold War era nuclear weapons sites in a dozen states. The lion's share, some $1.96 billion, will go to Washington state for what's being billed as the world's largest environmental cleanup project.
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POMONA, CA, & WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Obama administration has announced that almost $3 billion can be tapped for development of plug-in hybrid vehicles, clean energy and air projects and reclamation of contaminated sites known as brownfields.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The amount of toxic chemicals released into the country’s air, water or on land shrank 5 percent in 2007, but persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals, which include lead and mercury, inched up.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The reversal in U.S. policy prompted other countries, including China and India, to consent to negotiations that will begin later this year and conclude by 2013.
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OTTAWA, CANADA -- The Canadian government has named eight substances as toxic to human health or the environment. Two of them are substances found commonly in shampoo, lipstick and other personal care products.
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Consumers wary of acquiring the numerous cardboard boxes necessary for moving are increasingly turning to green moving companies like Rentagreenbox.com.
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Who hasn't guiltily sneaked off to the local taco truck for lunch? An LA-based company called Green Truck aims to reduce the guilt associated with on-the-go lunches by using organic ingredients, bio-compostable packaging, and vegetable oil to power its vehicles.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Poultry producer Perdue Farms Inc. and the U.S. Environmental Protection agency signed an agreement this week that is intended to help protect the waters in the mid-Atlantic and Southest from contamination.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- State-funded grants and loans for recycling and pollution prevention projects have been put on hold in Indiana, and New York could face a large reduction in its Environmental Protection Fund.
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SALEM, Ore. and OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A new "E-Cycling" program passed into law in Oregon and Washington takes effect on New Year's Day, requiring electronics manufacturers to recycled old hardware, and promising to spur the growth of responsible e-waste disposal.