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EPA declares ‘emergency’ asbestos cleanup in Montana town - via Wikinews.For the past ten years, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been overseeing the asbestos clean-up in the small town of Libby, Montana, which has been on the EPA’s Superfund National Priorities List since 2002.
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"Poisoned Waters focuses on the Chesapeake and the Puget Sound.
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In April of 2007, the Supreme Court ruled the federal Environmental Protection Agency must regulate carbon emissions unless it presents scientific proof that greenhouse gases do not contribute to global climate change. On Nov. 13, the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board ruled it would do so. We need alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear power, if [...]
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Popular Logistics favors regulating carbon emissions, however, we would start with Coal, Nuclear, and factory farms, and increasing the CAFE standards and auto mileage requirements, not "modest" ranches of 25 or 50 head of cattle. Popular Logistics also recognizes a distinction between carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels, the nuclear fuel cycle, and the environmental effects of mining, and carbon emissions from cattle ranching and hog farming, especially from organic farming. We would therefore suggest that the EPA create a carbon offset program that would allow ranchers and hog farmers to offset the carbon emissions of their livestock with trees, wind turbines, and photovolotaic solar installations.
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Stimulating Broadband