Environment

Coalition Seeks Greater Public Access To Information About Chemicals Used In Fracking

The a coalition of conservation groups, landowners, and public health advocates petitioned the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation to provide broader public disclosure of information about the chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing, or “...

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209 pesticides used in the EU could endanger humans or environment

Greenpeace Germany on 27 July published an updated version of The EU Pesticide Blacklist. This catalogue, developed by an independent expert, classifies all pesticides authorised in the European Union according to their potential dangers for human...

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Northern Mariansa Residents Challenge Destruction Of Their Homeland By Navy Live-Fire Plan

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands — Plans by the U.S. Navy to transfer 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam and begin staging massive, live-fire war games on the islands of Tinian and Pagan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands would...

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EPA Highlights Importance of Updated Standards to Protect the Health of New Jersey Farmworkers

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined by Denny Doyle from Atlantic Blueberry Company; Assistant Commissioner of Compliance and Enforcement Ray Bukowski from the NJ Department of Environmental Protection...

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