Tag: environment
member name: David K.
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November 04, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
As Senator Lautenberg prepares to introduce chemical control reform legislation in the US, possibly as early as this month, some in the auto industry are worried that they will be severely impacted. . . .
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September 03, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society , the worlds largest professional scientific society, a researcher from Japan presented a paper demonstrating that plastics floating in the ocean . . .
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October 24, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
Last night CNN and the Discovery Channel aired the documentary, Planet in Peril. The documentary touched on many environmental and resource issues around the globe. Biomonitoring, the measurement . . .
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April 12, 2009 06:14 PM EDT --
Sure, we all know what is in Windex. Right? Isopropanol, 2-Butoxyethanol, Ethylene glycol n-hexyl ether, Water, and Ammonia. Well, now you can go to a new web site set up by S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. . . .
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October 15, 2009 02:46 PM EDT --
"U.S. EPA released a long-sequestered document on global warming today showing the George W. Bush administration had concluded in December 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were . . .
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June 29, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
Where better to celebrate Chinese New Year than in China! I had just such an opportunity recently and took full advantage of it in Hong Kong, Macau, and then on to the Thai capitol of Bangkok (see . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:50 PM EST --
I received an email from Michelle H earlier today with this question: "
" You are the scientist...How many years of oil do we have left on the planet?
I'm thinking . . .
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February 17, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
On August 21, 2007 the leaders of the three nations of North America (US President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon) announced that their respective . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:58 AM EST --
All eyes in the United States have been on the $813 billion economic stimulus package passed last week by the US House of Representatives. One line item that many may have missed is an amendment that . . .
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March 29, 2009 10:20 AM EDT --
I mentioned previously the climate change conference held in Copenhagen , which was designed to stimulate some activism on the part of scientists in preparation for December's much anticipated international . . .
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September 15, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Okay, technically the European Union isn't saying that sushi should be banned. But the EU has recommended listing bluefin tuna as an endangered species. And that could eventually mean that trade of . . .
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September 29, 2009 10:43 AM EDT --
Not long ago I posted here about a continent of plastic circulating in the Pacific gyre, and how slow degradation of some plastics may actually be releasing toxins. Since then a great deal of discussion . . .
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October 27, 2009 10:20 PM EDT --
Yesterday the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) released a “chairman’s mark” of the climate bill she co-authored with fellow Senator John . . .
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November 11, 2008 03:04 PM EST --
A while back Sandy Knauer started a new group called Icons in which people would explain the origins of their Gather icons. Well, now I'm finally getting to doing mine.
My . . .
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January 31, 2009 08:05 AM EST --
The European Union's Ecolabel scheme should be beefed up to encourage less use of potentially dangerous chemicals in products, says a report by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the European . . .
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April 04, 2009 08:16 AM EDT --
Dr. Jane Lubchenco took over the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on March 22, 2009. A day later she did a joint interview with writers from two of the most prestigious . . .
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April 16, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
Think global warming affects only the air temperature? Think again. The oceans matter also when it comes to climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) could lead to big changes in the ocean, and most of it . . .
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October 26, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
Representatives from the chemical industry are calling for a more formal process for the development of a new chemical regulation policy in the United States. As reported here previously, the US Congress . . .
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June 09, 2008 09:57 AM EDT --
Hello again. Back with another If It's Tuesday, This Must be Belgium.
And I'm a day early (assuming I remember to post this before I leave on Monday). As I mentioned last week (I . . .
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September 09, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
This week, If it's Tuesday, This Must be Belgium takes us to...Virginia? A bit of a change of pace, since I haven't traveled anywhere new in the last month. Plus, I'll be in Washington . . .
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