Topic: Environmental Issues And Protection
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation. "I am in no sense writing off legislation over time. And I'm quite ...
US fast food giant Burger King said Thursday it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practices. Burger King joins the likes of Unilever, Nestle and Kraft in shunning ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. government officials urged residents of a Wyoming farming community near natural gas drilling sites not to use private well water for drinking or cooking because of chemical contamination. "Sample results indicate that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons and ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it had disapproved parts of Texas' program for permitting new industrial pollution sources. The action will not affect permits at the state's refineries, in which Texas leads the nation. EPA has been ...
Greenpeace said Friday that China "urgently" needed to reduce its dependency on coal, saying the emissions produced by its use posed a major threat to public health in the fast-growing Asian nation. "If China cannot swiftly reverse this dependency on coal and ...
Environmental groups sue EPA in hopes of faster cleanup of Cape Cod's coastal watersTwo environmental organizations have sued federal regulators in an effort to accelerate the cleanup of coastal waters in Massachusetts' Cape Cod Bay. The Conservation Law Foundation and the Coalition ...
The United States has offered to help major economies such as China and India develop shale gas, a rapidly growing sector in North America which US officials bill as a clean alternative. Twenty nations held two days of talks in Washington in ...
Summary Box: Greenland gas find fuels Greenpeace warning against damaging oil rush in ArcticADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE: Scotland's Cairn Energy PLC has found gas off the west coast of Greenland, a discovery that environmental group Greenpeace warns could lead to a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American farmers have been ridiculing a proposal by U.S. regulators to reduce the amount of dust floating in rural air. "If there's ever been rural America, that's what rural America is," said Nebraska hog farmer Danny Kluthe. "You know? ...
An environmental group sought on Wednesday to stop construction of a new bridge at the Windsor-Detroit border that aims to boost Canada-US trade, saying the span poses a risk to endangered wildlife. The bridge project "would result in the permanent degradation of ...
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