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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>The latest in United States</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/topic/united-states" rel="alternate"></link><id>http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/topic/united-states</id><updated>2011-12-22T04:00:18Z</updated><entry><title>China to tighten air pollution monitoring rules</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/china-tighten-air-pollution-monitoring-rules-4880991a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-22T04:00:18Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-22:/environmental-issues-and-protection/china-tighten-air-pollution-monitoring-rules-4880991a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Beijing" href="/topic/Beijing" &gt;BEIJING&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="China" href="/topic/China" &gt;China&lt;/a&gt; will introduce stricter air pollution standards from next year to monitor tiny floating pollution particles in Beijing and other big cities but may not start releasing the results to the public until 2016, state media said on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Swathes of urban China from the capital in t...</summary><category term="Respiratory Medicine"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Beijing"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="Guangzhou"></category><category term="People's Daily"></category><category term="Zhou Shengxian"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Wisconsin debates law to speed mining permits</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/wisconsin-debates-law-speed-mining-permits-4876472a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-14T17:30:23Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/wisconsin-debates-law-speed-mining-permits-4876472a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Milwaukee" href="/topic/Milwaukee" &gt;MILWAUKEE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A state measure to speed up the regulatory process for iron mines was met on Wednesday with a mix of support for the jobs a planned northern &lt;a title="Wisconsin" href="/topic/Wisconsin" &gt;Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt; mine could create and concerns about its potential impact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An environmental group also questioned whether the mining bill...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Wisconsin"></category><category term="Milwaukee"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Lake Superior"></category><category term="Richard Chang"></category><category term="Iron County"></category><category term="Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources"></category><category term="Wisconsin State Legislature"></category><category term="Jerry Norton"></category><category term="Apostle Islands"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Bob Jauch"></category></entry><entry><title>Coal ash taints 20 U.S. sites: report</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/coal-ash-taints-20-sites-report-4876317a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-14T14:30:24Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/coal-ash-taints-20-sites-report-4876317a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Toxic contamination from coal ash, a waste product of coal-fired power plants, has been detected in ground water and soil at 20 sites in 10 U.S. states, an environmental watchdog group reported on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These sites are the latest to contribute to a total of 157 identified by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Pr...</summary><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Electricity Generation"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="John Ward"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Safe Drinking Water Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Wisconsin debates law to allow iron ore strip mining</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/wisconsin-debates-law-iron-ore-strip-mining-4876061a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-14T08:00:23Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/wisconsin-debates-law-iron-ore-strip-mining-4876061a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Milwaukee" href="/topic/Milwaukee" &gt;MILWAUKEE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A controversial plan to strip mine for iron ore in northern &lt;a title="Wisconsin" href="/topic/Wisconsin" &gt;Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt; could proceed under a proposed state law designed to ease environmental rules.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bill, which will be discussed in a public hearing in Milwaukee Wednesday, was introduced by majority &lt;span&gt;Republicans&lt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Wisconsin"></category><category term="Milwaukee"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Iron County"></category><category term="Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="Bob Jauch"></category></entry><entry><title>Arsenic in water near coal-fired US plants: monitor</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/arsenic-water-coalfired-plants-monitor-4875747a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-13T19:30:36Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-13:/environmental-issues-and-protection/arsenic-water-coalfired-plants-monitor-4875747a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;An environmental monitor Tuesday identified 19 new sites across the &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;United States&lt;/a&gt; where groundwater near coal-ash dumps from power plants was found to be contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Environmental Integrity Project said the pollution -- in some cases more than 10 times the maximum contaminant level for arsenic -- is a direct health threat to thousands of residents who live near plants which use coal.&lt;/...</summary><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Electricity Generation"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Pennsylvania"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Durban just the start of fight for EU climate chief</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/durban-start-fight-eu-climate-chief-4875338a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-13T10:30:25Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-13:/environmental-issues-and-protection/durban-start-fight-eu-climate-chief-4875338a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Brussels" href="/topic/Brussels" &gt;BRUSSELS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - European climate chief &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Connie Hedegaard" href="/topic/Connie+Hedegaard" &gt;Connie Hedegaard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, who salvaged &lt;a title="Durban" href="/topic/Durban" &gt;Durban&lt;/a&gt; talks on global warming, has a next-to-impossible task ahead of striving to shame the world's biggest polluters into real action and tackling the &lt;a ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="European Politics"></category><category term="EU Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="European Union"></category><category term="India"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="Denmark"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="South Africa"></category><category term="European Commission"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Belgium"></category><category term="Brazil"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="South America"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Poland"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Central Europe"></category><category term="Kyoto"></category><category term="Kyoto Protocol"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="South Asia"></category><category term="Brussels"></category><category term="Durban"></category><category term="Nordic Countries"></category><category term="Environmental Defense Fund"></category><category term="Estonia"></category><category term="European Parliament"></category><category term="Baltic Countries"></category><category term="Connie Hedegaard"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Exclusive: Keep pipeline out of tax cuts, senators tell Reid</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/exclusive-pipeline-tax-cuts-senators-reid-4870769a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-12-06T10:00:52Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-12-06:/environmental-issues-and-protection/exclusive-pipeline-tax-cuts-senators-reid-4870769a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Five U.S. senators urged &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Harry Reid" href="/topic/Harry+Reid" &gt;Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to reject Republican efforts to make approval of the &lt;span id="keystone_pipeline" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a title="Keystone Pipeline" href="/topic/Keystone+Pipeline" &gt;Keystone XL pipeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; part of a payroll tax cut bill expected to pass through Congre...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Parties"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Economic Policy"></category><category term="Tax Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of State"></category><category term="Harry Reid"></category><category term="Nancy Pelosi"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="Sheldon Whitehouse"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Frank Lautenberg"></category><category term="Ron Wyden"></category><category term="Patrick Leahy"></category><category term="Bernie Sanders"></category><category term="TransCanada Corporation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="U.S. Conservative Politics"></category><category term="Keystone Pipeline"></category></entry><entry><title>Nebraska lawmakers vote to reroute pipeline</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/nebraska-lawmakers-vote-reroute-pipeline-4861747a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-22T10:30:09Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-11-22:/environmental-issues-and-protection/nebraska-lawmakers-vote-reroute-pipeline-4861747a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Lincoln (Nebraska)" href="/topic/Lincoln+(Nebraska)" &gt;LINCOLN, Nebraska&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="Nebraska" href="/topic/Nebraska" &gt;Nebraska&lt;/a&gt; lawmakers on Tuesday voted unanimously to reroute a controversial proposed U.S.-to-&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" &gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; oil pipeline away from an ecologically-sensitive region in the state, and the governor quickly sig...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Oil Production and Refining"></category><category term="Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation"></category><category term="Pipeline Transportation"></category><category term="Natural Gas Pipelines"></category><category term="Oil Pipelines"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="Nebraska"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Middle East"></category><category term="Alberta"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Lincoln (Nebraska)"></category><category term="Oil Sands"></category><category term="Dave Heineman"></category><category term="TransCanada Corporation"></category><category term="Ogallala Aquifer"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Will Dunham"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="Nebraska Politics"></category><category term="Keystone Pipeline"></category></entry><entry><title>Nebraska lawmakers vote to reroute oil pipeline</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/nebraska-lawmakers-vote-reroute-oil-pipeline-4857766a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-16T10:30:19Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-11-16:/environmental-issues-and-protection/nebraska-lawmakers-vote-reroute-oil-pipeline-4857766a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Lincoln (Nebraska)" href="/topic/Lincoln+(Nebraska)" &gt;LINCOLN, Neb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;a title="Nebraska" href="/topic/Nebraska" &gt;Nebraska&lt;/a&gt; legislature on Wednesday voted 45-0 to advance a proposed law that would reroute the $7 billion TransCanada &lt;span id="keystone_pipeline" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a title="Keystone Pipeline" href="/topic/Keystone+Pipeline" &gt;Keystone XL pipeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of State"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="Nebraska"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Lincoln (Nebraska)"></category><category term="TransCanada Corporation"></category><category term="Ogallala Aquifer"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Keystone Pipeline"></category></entry><entry><title>Sierra Club Opposes Minnesota Gay Marriage Ban</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/sierra-club-opposes-minnesota-gay-marriage-ban-4856007a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-14T06:30:15Z</updated><author><name>On Top Magazine</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-11-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/sierra-club-opposes-minnesota-gay-marriage-ban-4856007a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;The North Star chapter of the &lt;a title="Sierra Club" href="/topic/Sierra+Club" &gt;Sierra Club&lt;/a&gt; has joined the fight against a proposed amendment that would ban gay marriage in Minnesota&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club has joined the fight against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Minnesota.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Minnesotans will decide on the measure next November.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(Related: Second survey finds Minnesotans divided on gay marr...</summary><category term="Same-Sex Marriage"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Social Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Minnesota"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="LGBT Issues"></category><category term="Margaret Levin"></category></entry><entry><title>Democrats ax bill to block US EPA clean air rule</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/democrats-ax-bill-block-epa-clean-air-rule-4854307a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-11T05:32:00Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-11-11:/environmental-issues-and-protection/democrats-ax-bill-block-epa-clean-air-rule-4854307a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Senate" href="/topic/U.S.+Senate" &gt;U.S. Senate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a title="U.S. Democratic Party" href="/topic/U.S.+Democratic+Party" &gt;Democrats&lt;/a&gt; defeated a bill on Thursday that would have blocked federal environmental regulators from slashing power plant air pollution that blows downwind to other states and causes lung and heart problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bill, s...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Electricity Generation"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Electric Utilities"></category><category term="Electric Power Generation"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="U.S. Senate"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Rocky Mountains"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="American Lung Association"></category><category term="Barbara Boxer"></category><category term="Lamar Alexander"></category><category term="Joe Manchin"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Rand Paul"></category></entry><entry><title>US lawmakers press Obama to approve pipeline</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/lawmakers-press-obama-approve-pipeline-4853524a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-09T21:30:14Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-11-09:/environmental-issues-and-protection/lawmakers-press-obama-approve-pipeline-4853524a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;US lawmakers pressed &lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; on Wednesday to green-light the massive US-&lt;a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" &gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt; "Keystone" pipeline that has drawn heavy fire from environmentalists, saying the project will create jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Your decision is crucial for both American job opportunities and America's energy security," more than two dozen members of the Republican-controlled &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House Committ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="Diplomacy"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of State"></category><category term="Gulf of Mexico"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce"></category><category term="Alberta"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Friends of the Earth"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Freedom of Information Act"></category><category term="Keystone Pipeline"></category><category term="Great Plains"></category></entry><entry><title>If they sort it, we'll recycle it</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/waste-and-recycling/sort-recycle-4850353a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-11-01T02:30:34Z</updated><author><name>Las Vegas Sun</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-11-01:/waste-and-recycling/sort-recycle-4850353a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Trash hauler finds spike in participation among single-bin customers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recycling isn't popular in Southern &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Nevada" href="/topic/Nevada" &gt;Nevada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, or so the numbers seem to show. Just 3 percent of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Republic Services Inc." href="/topic/Republic+Services+Inc." &gt;Republic Services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;' customers recycle their plastics, cans and paper, according to the trash hauler.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But some Southern Nevadans - about 84,000 Republic cu...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Las Vegas"></category><category term="Nevada"></category><category term="Portland (Oregon)"></category><category term="Waste and Recycling"></category><category term="Las Vegas Sun"></category><category term="Chris Giunchigliani"></category><category term="Susan Brager"></category><category term="Republic Services Inc."></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Perry vows to unleash US energy boom</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/perry-vows-unleash-energy-boom-4844401a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-14T18:30:45Z</updated><author><name>AFP American Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-10-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/perry-vows-unleash-energy-boom-4844401a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fading Republican 2012 candidate &lt;a title="Rick Perry" href="/topic/Rick+Perry" &gt;Rick Perry&lt;/a&gt; pledged Friday to unleash a new economic boom by throwing open land and seas to oil drilling and tapping America's status as the "&lt;a title="Saudi Arabia" href="/topic/Saudi+Arabia" &gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt; of coal."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; governor tried to revive his presidential campaign with the first of a series of policy speeches, in which he pledge...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Energy Policy"></category><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Alternative Energy"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="India"></category><category term="Gulf of Mexico"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Middle East"></category><category term="Pittsburgh"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Pennsylvania"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="South Asia"></category><category term="Saudi Arabia"></category><category term="Galveston Bay"></category><category term="Mitt Romney"></category><category term="Rick Perry"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="John Anderson"></category><category term="Rice University"></category><category term="Texas Commission on Environmental Quality"></category><category term="League of Conservation Voters"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Herman Cain"></category></entry><entry><title>Texas says smog-rule changes ignore EPA errors</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/texas-smogrule-ignore-epa-errors-4843834a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-13T15:30:11Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-10-13:/environmental-issues-and-protection/texas-smogrule-ignore-epa-errors-4843834a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;HOUSTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Small changes made to a federal smog pollution rule last week have not allayed fears of &lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt; regulators who worry the new rule could lead to increased rolling blackouts, &lt;span&gt;Donna Nelson&lt;/span&gt;, chairman of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Public Utility Commission of Texas" href="/topic/Public+Utility+Commission+of+Texas" &gt;Texas Public Utility C...</summary><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Electricity Generation"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Oklahoma"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="Kansas"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="NRG Energy Inc."></category><category term="Public Utility Commission of Texas"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="CROSS STATE"></category><category term="Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality"></category></entry><entry><title>California shark fin ban signed into law</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/california-shark-fin-ban-signed-law-4841503a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-07T17:30:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-10-07:/environmental-issues-and-protection/california-shark-fin-ban-signed-law-4841503a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Sacramento" href="/topic/Sacramento" &gt;SACRAMENTO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;a title="California" href="/topic/California" &gt;Calif&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Shark fin soup will disappear from the Golden State's menu in January 2013 under legislation signed into law on Friday by &lt;span&gt;California &lt;a title="Jerry Brown" href="/topic/Jerry+Brown" &gt;Governor Jerry Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strongly supported by environmentalist...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Endangered Species"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Oregon"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Sacramento"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Oceania"></category><category term="Guam"></category><category term="Leonardo DiCaprio"></category><category term="Jerry Brown"></category><category term="Steve Gorman"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>Oil pipe lobbyist, State Dept too close: group</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/oil-pipe-lobbyist-state-dept-close-group-4839435a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-10-03T13:30:15Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-10-03:/environmental-issues-and-protection/oil-pipe-lobbyist-state-dept-close-group-4839435a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - As &lt;a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" &gt;Washington&lt;/a&gt; edges closer to deciding the fate of a pipeline to bring crude from &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" &gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s oil sands to &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, emails between the company's lobbyist and the &lt;span&gt;State Department&lt;/span&gt; show a cozy rela...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="Diplomacy"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Oil Production and Refining"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation"></category><category term="Pipeline Transportation"></category><category term="Natural Gas Pipelines"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of State"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Hillary Clinton"></category><category term="Oil Sands"></category><category term="Friends of the Earth"></category><category term="Max Baucus"></category><category term="Victoria Nuland"></category><category term="TransCanada Corporation"></category><category term="Paul Elliott"></category><category term="Ogallala Aquifer"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Freedom of Information Act"></category><category term="U.S. Embassy in Ottawa"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Keystone Pipeline"></category></entry><entry><title>US, Indonesia sign $30m debt-for-nature swap</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/deforestation-and-forest-health/indonesia-sign-30m-debtfornature-swap-4837953a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-29T10:30:29Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-09-29:/deforestation-and-forest-health/indonesia-sign-30m-debtfornature-swap-4837953a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;United States&lt;/a&gt; forgave almost $30 million in Indonesian debt Thursday, diverting the funds to tropical forest conservation on &lt;a title="Borneo" href="/topic/Borneo" &gt;Borneo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The debt-for-nature swap is authorised under the US Tropical Forest Conservation Act, aimed at mitigating climate change by reducing deforestation which releases greenhouse gases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"We are all aware that &lt;a title="Indonesia" href="/topic/Indo...</summary><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Conservation of Resources"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Norway"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Australia"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="United Nations"></category><category term="Southeast Asia"></category><category term="Malaysia"></category><category term="Singapore"></category><category term="Indonesia"></category><category term="Oceania"></category><category term="Borneo"></category><category term="Nordic Countries"></category><category term="Jakarta"></category><category term="Nature Conservancy"></category><category term="Kalimantan"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Deforestation and Forest Health"></category></entry><entry><title>Obama to drop smog initiative</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/obama-drop-smog-initiative-4827134a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-02T10:30:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Top News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-09-02:/environmental-issues-and-protection/obama-drop-smog-initiative-4827134a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; unexpectedly asked the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Friday to withdraw a plan to limit smog pollution, handing a big win to business and &lt;span&gt;Republicans&lt;/span&gt; ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="The Dow Chemical Company"></category><category term="Gene Karpinski"></category><category term="League of Conservation Voters"></category><category term="John Barrasso"></category><category term="Lisa Jackson (Politician)"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Obama asks EPA to withdraw draft ozone standard</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/obama-asks-epa-withdraw-draft-ozone-standard-4827105a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-09-02T09:00:09Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-09-02:/environmental-issues-and-protection/obama-asks-epa-withdraw-draft-ozone-standard-4827105a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; asked the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Friday to withdraw a plan that would tighten national air-quality standards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama said the request was made a part o...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Lisa Jackson (Politician)"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Public Health"></category></entry><entry><title>U.S. researchers find Roundup chemical in water, air</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/researchers-find-roundup-chemical-water-air-4826289a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-08-31T13:30:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-08-31:/environmental-issues-and-protection/researchers-find-roundup-chemical-water-air-4826289a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kansas City" href="/topic/Kansas+City" &gt;KANSAS CITY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Missouri&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Significant levels of the world's most-used herbicide have been detected in air and water samples from two U.S. farm states, government scientists said on Wednesday, in groundbreaking research on the active ingredient in &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Monsanto Company" href="/topic/Monsanto+Company" &gt;Monsanto Co&lt;...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of the Interior"></category><category term="Kansas City"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Mississippi"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Monsanto Company"></category><category term="U.S. Geological Survey"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Court denies stay of wolf hunts in two states</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/court-denies-stay-wolf-hunts-states-4824342a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-08-26T08:30:13Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-08-26:/environmental-issues-and-protection/court-denies-stay-wolf-hunts-states-4824342a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;SALMON, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Idaho" href="/topic/Idaho" &gt;Idaho&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - An appeals court has refused to block wolf hunts planned in Idaho and &lt;span&gt;Montana&lt;/span&gt; while conservation groups press a legal case against an unprecedented act of Congress that lifted federal protection of the animals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than 1,500 wolves in Idaho and &lt;a title="Montana" href="/topic/Montana" &gt;Montana&lt;/a&gt; were removed...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Wildlife"></category><category term="Mammals"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Court of Appeals"></category><category term="Idaho"></category><category term="Montana"></category><category term="Rocky Mountains"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Wolves"></category><category term="Steve Gorman"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Endangered Species Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Preserving clarity of Lake Tahoe</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/preserving-clarity-lake-tahoe-4824236a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-08-26T02:30:10Z</updated><author><name>Las Vegas Sun</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-08-26:/environmental-issues-and-protection/preserving-clarity-lake-tahoe-4824236a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Regional agency charged with governing the lake is unwieldy, making it hard to get projects approved that would clean up Tahoe and the detritus of urban sprawl&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stateline&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We drive on U.S. Highway 50 toward &lt;a title="Lake Tahoe" href="/topic/Lake+Tahoe" &gt;Lake Tahoe&lt;/a&gt;, its surface shimmering with sunlight, the hillsides dense with trees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm a little confused by all the hippies roaming about, until I realize that the jam band &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Phish" href...</summary><category term="Microbiology"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Nevada"></category><category term="Lake Tahoe"></category><category term="U.S. Green Building Council"></category><category term="Las Vegas Sun"></category><category term="Nevada State Legislature"></category><category term="Southern Nevada Water Authority"></category><category term="Phish"></category><category term="Ross Miller"></category><category term="Tahoe Regional Planning Agency"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Life Magazine"></category></entry><entry><title>Court denies stay of wolf hunts in Idaho, Montana</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/court-denies-stay-wolf-hunts-idaho-montana-4824200a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-08-25T22:00:10Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-08-25:/environmental-issues-and-protection/court-denies-stay-wolf-hunts-idaho-montana-4824200a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;SALMON, &lt;a title="Idaho" href="/topic/Idaho" &gt;Idaho&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; appeals court refused on Thursday to block wolf hunts planned in Idaho and &lt;a title="Montana" href="/topic/Montana" &gt;Montana&lt;/a&gt; while conservation groups press a legal case against an unprecedented act of Congress that lifted federal protection of the animals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than 1,500 wolves in Idaho and Montana were removed ...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Wildlife"></category><category term="Mammals"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Court of Appeals"></category><category term="Idaho"></category><category term="Montana"></category><category term="Rocky Mountains"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Wolves"></category><category term="Steve Gorman"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Endangered Species Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Bloomberg, Sierra Club make $50 million anti-coal move</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/bloomberg-sierra-club-50-million-anticoal-move-4809549a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-07-21T10:00:15Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-07-21:/environmental-issues-and-protection/bloomberg-sierra-club-50-million-anticoal-move-4809549a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="Michael Bloomberg" href="/topic/Michael+Bloomberg" &gt;New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt; joined with the &lt;a title="Sierra Club" href="/topic/Sierra+Club" &gt;Sierra Club&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday in a $50 million, four-year plan to campaign for replacing one-third of aging U.S. coal-fired power plants with clean energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"If we are going to get serious about reducing our c...</summary><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Electricity Generation"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Coal Mining"></category><category term="Electric Utilities"></category><category term="Electric Power Generation"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Power Generation"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Alexandria (Virginia)"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Michael Bloomberg"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Public Health"></category><category term="Mercury Poisoning"></category></entry><entry><title>Ohio leads list of top 20 states with toxic air</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/ohio-leads-list-top-20-states-toxic-air-4809515a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-07-21T09:00:08Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-07-21:/environmental-issues-and-protection/ohio-leads-list-top-20-states-toxic-air-4809515a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - People living in &lt;a title="Ohio" href="/topic/Ohio" &gt;Ohio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Pennsylvania" href="/topic/Pennsylvania" &gt;Pennsylvania&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;Florida&lt;/span&gt; are most at risk in the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; from toxic emissions spewing from coal and oil-fired power plants, two leading American environmen...</summary><category term="Engineering"></category><category term="Electrical Engineering"></category><category term="Energy and Power Engineering"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Electricity Generation"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Electric Utilities"></category><category term="Electric Power Generation"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Ohio"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Pennsylvania"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Natural Resources Defense Council"></category><category term="Physicians for Social Responsibility"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Public Health"></category><category term="Mercury Poisoning"></category></entry><entry><title>Oregon panel approves tough new clean water rules</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/oregon-panel-approves-tough-new-clean-water-rules-4794914a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-16T21:00:17Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-06-16:/environmental-issues-and-protection/oregon-panel-approves-tough-new-clean-water-rules-4794914a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Portland (Oregon)" href="/topic/Portland+(Oregon)" &gt;PORTLAND, Ore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="Oregon" href="/topic/Oregon" &gt;Oregon&lt;/a&gt;'s environmental regulators on Thursday approved new health-based water quality standards, touted as the toughest in the nation, for curtailing toxic pollutants in rivers and streams.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rules, subject to approval by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environme...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Clean Water Policy"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Forestry and Logging Industries"></category><category term="Paper and Paper Products Manufacturing"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Oregon"></category><category term="Seattle"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Portland (Oregon)"></category><category term="The Environmental Quality Company"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Steve Gorman"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Judge upholds environmentalist lawsuit against Exxon</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/judge-upholds-environmentalist-lawsuit-exxon-4791065a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-06-08T10:30:19Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-06-08:/environmental-issues-and-protection/judge-upholds-environmentalist-lawsuit-exxon-4791065a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;HOUSTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A federal judge on Tuesday said two environmental groups' could sue for enforcement of federal pollution standards at &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Exxon Mobil Corporation" href="/topic/Exxon+Mobil+Corporation" &gt;Exxon Mobil Corp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s &lt;span&gt;Baytown&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, refinery, the nation's largest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Exxon, the largest &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Chemicals Sector"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Houston (Texas)"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Exxon Mobil Corporation"></category><category term="Deer Park"></category><category term="Baytown"></category><category term="Royal Dutch Shell plc"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category></entry><entry><title>Court rejects move to stop Calif clean car program</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/court-rejects-move-stop-calif-clean-car-program-4774245a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-29T11:00:20Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/court-rejects-move-stop-calif-clean-car-program-4774245a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to the government's decision to allow &lt;a title="California" href="/topic/California" &gt;California&lt;/a&gt; to cut greenhouse gas emissions from new cars sold in the state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" href="/topic/U.S.+Chamber+of+Commerce" &gt;U.S. Chamber of Commerce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="National...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Motor Vehicle Manufacturing"></category><category term="Automobile Manufacturing"></category><category term="Retail Trade"></category><category term="Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="U.S. Chamber of Commerce"></category><category term="Environmental Defense Fund"></category><category term="National Automobile Dealers Association"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Consumer Cyclicals"></category></entry><entry><title>Cattle groups sue to stop water rule in Florida</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/cattle-groups-sue-stop-water-rule-florida-4773899a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-28T16:00:11Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-28:/environmental-issues-and-protection/cattle-groups-sue-stop-water-rule-florida-4773899a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Two cattle groups filed suit in &lt;a title="Florida" href="/topic/Florida" &gt;Florida&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday to overturn &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; water pollution rules that also are challenged by Florida state officials and businesses as ruinously expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protec...</summary><category term="Trials"></category><category term="Civil Trials"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Pennsylvania"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Mississippi River"></category><category term="Chesapeake Bay"></category><category term="Florida Wildlife Federation"></category><category term="Lisa Jackson (Politician)"></category><category term="National Cattlemen's Beef Association"></category><category term="American Farm Bureau Federation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>New York Earth Day celebrates with "virtual" forests</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/new-york-earth-day-celebrates-virtual-forests-4771344a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-22T08:30:20Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Internet News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-22:/environmental-issues-and-protection/new-york-earth-day-celebrates-virtual-forests-4771344a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - A "virtual" forest sprouting on &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Times Square" href="/topic/Times+Square" &gt;Times Square&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s renowned billboards, 1,000 free rain barrels for gritty city backyards and a parade of clean energy vehicles including hybrid garbage trucks are all helping New Yorkers go green for &lt;a title="Earth Day" href="/topic/Earth+Day" &gt;Earth Day&lt;/a&gt; on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eart...</summary><category term="Holidays"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="India"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="Manhattan"></category><category term="Mexico"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Philippines"></category><category term="United Nations"></category><category term="Southeast Asia"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Kenya"></category><category term="Times Square"></category><category term="South Asia"></category><category term="Cable News Network"></category><category term="MTV Networks Company"></category><category term="Michael Bloomberg"></category><category term="Times Square Alliance"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="PlaNYC"></category><category term="Earth Day"></category></entry><entry><title>Earth Day organizers call for 'a billion acts of green'</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/earth-day-organizers-call-billion-acts-green-4770990a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-21T13:00:17Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Life! Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-21:/environmental-issues-and-protection/earth-day-organizers-call-billion-acts-green-4770990a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Chicago" href="/topic/Chicago" &gt;CHICAGO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Life!) - If the environmental movement has a high holiday, &lt;a title="Earth Day" href="/topic/Earth+Day" &gt;Earth Day&lt;/a&gt; is it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding with the Christian &lt;span id="good_friday" class="inform...</summary><category term="Holidays"></category><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Automotive Technology"></category><category term="Electric Vehicles"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Gulf of Mexico"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="BP plc"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Tribeca Film Festival"></category><category term="Gaylord Nelson"></category><category term="Jerry Norton"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Endangered Species Act"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Clean Water Act"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Earth Day"></category><category term="Good Friday"></category><category term="Gulf Coast"></category></entry><entry><title>Earth Day organizers call for "a billion acts of green"</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/earth-day-organizers-call-billion-acts-green-4770832a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-21T08:00:24Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-21:/environmental-issues-and-protection/earth-day-organizers-call-billion-acts-green-4770832a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Chicago" href="/topic/Chicago" &gt;CHICAGO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - If the environmental movement has a high holiday, &lt;a title="Earth Day" href="/topic/Earth+Day" &gt;Earth Day&lt;/a&gt; is it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding with the Christian &lt;span id="good_friday" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a t...</summary><category term="Holidays"></category><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Automotive Technology"></category><category term="Electric Vehicles"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Gulf of Mexico"></category><category term="Chicago"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="BP plc"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Tribeca Film Festival"></category><category term="Gaylord Nelson"></category><category term="Jerry Norton"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Endangered Species Act"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Clean Water Act"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Earth Day"></category><category term="Good Friday"></category><category term="Gulf Coast"></category></entry><entry><title>California tosses out solar power plant lawsuit</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/california-tosses-solar-power-plant-lawsuit-4767863a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-14T13:00:34Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/california-tosses-solar-power-plant-lawsuit-4767863a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Los Angeles" href="/topic/Los+Angeles" &gt;LOS ANGELES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="California" href="/topic/California" &gt;California&lt;/a&gt;'s supreme court refused to consider a lawsuit filed by an influential environmental group seeking to delay construction of a solar plant because it might harm rare plant and animal species.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The state supreme court said it would not review the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a t...</summary><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Alternative Energy"></category><category term="Solar Power Generation"></category><category term="Electric Utilities"></category><category term="Electric Power Generation"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Mexico"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="David Graham"></category><category term="First Solar Inc."></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="California Energy Commission"></category><category term="California Public Utilities Commission"></category><category term="Richard Chang"></category><category term="SunPower Corporation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Solar Energy"></category><category term="Alternative Energy Production"></category></entry><entry><title>Cancer cause or crop aid? Herbicide faces big test</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/cancer-crop-aid-herbicide-faces-big-test-4765255a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-04-08T09:30:17Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-04-08:/environmental-issues-and-protection/cancer-crop-aid-herbicide-faces-big-test-4765255a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Kansas City" href="/topic/Kansas+City" &gt;KANSAS CITY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Missouri&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Critics say it's a chemical that could cause infertility or cancer, while others see it speeding the growth of super weeds and causing worrying changes to plants and soil. Backers say it is safe and has made a big contribution to food production.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's glyphosate, the key - but controversial -...</summary><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Kansas City"></category><category term="Germany"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Purdue University"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Switzerland"></category><category term="South America"></category><category term="National Institutes of Health"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Agriculture"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Argentina"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Monsanto Company"></category><category term="The Dow Chemical Company"></category><category term="Center for Biological Diversity"></category><category term="Tom Vilsack"></category><category term="Center for Food Safety"></category><category term="Syngenta Corporation"></category><category term="Wellesley College"></category><category term="Earthjustice"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="BASF SE"></category></entry><entry><title>Former State Dept envoy backs Keystone pipeline</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/state-dept-envoy-backs-keystone-pipeline-4761946a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-31T16:30:18Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-31:/environmental-issues-and-protection/state-dept-envoy-backs-keystone-pipeline-4761946a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The energy security benefits of a proposed pipeline that would transport Canadian crude to the U.S. &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Gulf Coast" href="/topic/Gulf+Coast" &gt;Gulf Coast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; outweigh the environmental concerns about the project, a former official at the agency that will decide the fate of the pipeline said on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;David Goldwyn&lt;/span&gt;, who recently served ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="Diplomacy"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Department of State"></category><category term="Canada"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="TransCanada Corporation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Gulf Coast"></category></entry><entry><title>Republicans in new push to drill in Alaska reserve</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/republicans-new-push-drill-alaska-reserve-4761731a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-31T10:00:13Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-31:/environmental-issues-and-protection/republicans-new-push-drill-alaska-reserve-4761731a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Not yet a year after the worst offshore oil spill in &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; history, &lt;span&gt;Republicans&lt;/span&gt; are renewing efforts to drill for oil and gas in a fiercely contested Alaskan wildlife refuge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moving one day after &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s unveiled a plan to cut &lt;a title="United States" href="/t...</summary><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Oil Production and Refining"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Oil and Gas Exploration and Drilling"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Alaska"></category><category term="BP plc"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Oil Sands"></category><category term="Arctic National Wildlife Refuge"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Jim DeMint"></category><category term="David Vitter"></category><category term="TransCanada Corporation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category></entry><entry><title>Senate showdown looms over EPA carbon rules</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/senate-showdown-looms-epa-carbon-rules-4760702a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-29T10:30:17Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/senate-showdown-looms-epa-carbon-rules-4760702a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Senate" href="/topic/U.S.+Senate" &gt;U.S. Senate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is moving toward a showdown vote on Wednesday over legislation that would block the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, a key energy initia...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Energy Policy"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Alternative Energy"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="U.S. Senate"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Harry Reid"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Germany"></category><category term="Japan"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Jay Rockefeller"></category><category term="Max Baucus"></category><category term="Mary Landrieu"></category><category term="Jim Inhofe"></category><category term="The Pew Charitable Trusts"></category><category term="Fukushima"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Yucca or not, nuclear waste RESIDES here Millions of tons of low-level material are buried at the Nevada National Security Site - and the state can do little about it Every week, tractor-trailers deliver containers full of low-level nuclear waste to be dis</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/yucca-nuclear-waste-resides-millions-tons-lowlevel-material-buried-nevada-national-security-site-state-week-tractortrailers-deliver-containers-full-lowlevel-nuclear-waste-dis-4760112a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-29T02:30:56Z</updated><author><name>Las Vegas Sun</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/yucca-nuclear-waste-resides-millions-tons-lowlevel-material-buried-nevada-national-security-site-state-week-tractortrailers-deliver-containers-full-lowlevel-nuclear-waste-dis-4760112a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Millions of tons of low-level material are buried at the &lt;a title="Nevada" href="/topic/Nevada" &gt;Nevada&lt;/a&gt; National Security Site - and the state can do little about it 
  
 NUKE WASTE: Where &amp;amp; Why 
 Every week, tractor-trailers deliver containers full of low-level nuclear waste to be disposed of at the Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of &lt;a title="Las Vegas" href="/topic/Las+Vegas" &gt;Las Vegas&lt;/a&gt;. The waste comes from points across the country. This has ...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Security Policy"></category><category term="Energy Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="Nuclear Weapons"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Energy Technology"></category><category term="Nuclear Energy"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Hazardous Waste Management"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York City"></category><category term="Harry Reid"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Las Vegas"></category><category term="U.S. Government Accountability Office"></category><category term="Nevada"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="South Carolina"></category><category term="Empire State Building"></category><category term="Death Valley"></category><category term="Hoover Dam"></category><category term="U.S. Geological Survey"></category><category term="U.S. Department of Energy"></category><category term="Bill Richardson (Politician)"></category><category term="Las Vegas Sun"></category><category term="U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission"></category><category term="Kenny C. Guinn"></category><category term="Yucca Mountain"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Catherine Cortez Masto"></category><category term="Savannah River Site"></category><category term="Takoma Park"></category><category term="Ed Goedhart"></category><category term="Nevada Test Site"></category><category term="Nye County"></category><category term="Pahrump"></category><category term="Agency for Nuclear"></category><category term="Marta Adams"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Brian Sandoval"></category><category term="Nellis Air Force"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="Nevada Politics"></category><category term="Nuclear Information &amp; Resource Service"></category><category term="Atomic Energy Act"></category></entry><entry><title>BP oil spill offers clues on air pollution: study</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/bp-oil-spill-offers-clues-air-pollution-study-4752454a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-10T13:30:09Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Science News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-10:/environmental-issues-and-protection/bp-oil-spill-offers-clues-air-pollution-study-4752454a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;a title="BP plc" href="/topic/BP+plc" &gt;BP oil&lt;/a&gt; spill that sent 4 million barrels of crude into the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Gulf of Mexico" href="/topic/Gulf+of+Mexico" &gt;Gulf of Mexico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; last year also created air pollution, and studying this pollution gave scientists clues into how these contaminants get into the atmosphere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BP's &lt;span id="deepwater_horizon" c...</summary><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Meteorology"></category><category term="Accidents and Disasters"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Gulf of Mexico"></category><category term="BP plc"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Lockheed Martin Corporation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"></category><category term="Oil Spills"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Public Health"></category><category term="Deepwater Horizon"></category><category term="Gulf Coast Oil Spill"></category></entry><entry><title>How buying new translates into less waste</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/buying-new-translates-waste-4752207a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-10T04:30:10Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-10:/environmental-issues-and-protection/buying-new-translates-waste-4752207a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nestled among the sleek coffee makers and colorful new blenders at a major housewares &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;US&lt;/a&gt; trade show were a handful of products which aimed to prove that buying something new can actually make less waste.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were the reusable water bottles and to-go coffee cups. Trendy portable bamboo cutlery and washable cloth sandwich bags. Concentrated cleaning supplies in a handy, reusable container ready to be filled with tap water.&lt;/...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="SodaStream International Ltd."></category></entry><entry><title>Sharks get protection in Marshall Islands</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/sharks-protection-marshall-islands-4750159a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-04T19:30:29Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-04:/environmental-issues-and-protection/sharks-protection-marshall-islands-4750159a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;US&lt;/a&gt; territory of the &lt;a title="Marshall Islands" href="/topic/Marshall+Islands" &gt;Marshall Islands&lt;/a&gt; has placed a moratorium on the trade and export of shark fins, a report said Friday, the latest in a trend across the &lt;a title="Pacific Ocean" href="/topic/Pacific+Ocean" &gt;Pacific Ocean&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More than 70 million sharks are killed each year primarily for their fins, which are in high demand for Asian shark fin soup, enviro...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Pacific Ocean"></category><category term="Honduras"></category><category term="Oceania"></category><category term="Indian Ocean"></category><category term="Guam"></category><category term="Maldives"></category><category term="Marshall Islands"></category><category term="Northern Mariana Islands"></category><category term="Palau"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Philadelphia tops list of U.S. most toxic cities</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-cleanup/philadelphia-tops-list-toxic-cities-4748377a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-03-01T08:30:25Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-03-01:/environmental-cleanup/philadelphia-tops-list-toxic-cities-4748377a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="Philadelphia" href="/topic/Philadelphia" &gt;Philadelphia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Bakersfield" href="/topic/Bakersfield" &gt;Bakersfield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Fresno" href="/topic/Fresno" &gt;Fresno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="California" href="/topic/California" &gt;California&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, are the most toxic cities in America, according to a new study that looked at air an...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Environmental Cleanup"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York City"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Los Angeles"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Philadelphia"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Fresno"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Environmental Working Group"></category><category term="Bakersfield"></category><category term="Baton Rouge"></category><category term="Gowanus Canal"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Patricia Reaney"></category><category term="Brooklyn (New York City)"></category><category term="Public Health"></category></entry><entry><title>US issues cheaper boiler rules</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/issues-cheaper-boiler-rules-4746301a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-23T21:30:17Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-02-23:/environmental-issues-and-protection/issues-cheaper-boiler-rules-4746301a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The US administration overhauled rules Wednesday to cut air pollution from industrial boilers and incinerators but at almost half the price of initial plans criticized by industrial groups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;US Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a title="Gina McCarthy" href="/topic/Gina+McCarthy" &gt;Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy&lt;/a&gt; said the final regulations would provide benefit...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="National Association of Manufacturers"></category><category term="Gina McCarthy"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Air pollution may hurt school kids' lungs</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/air-pollution-hurt-school-kids-lungs-4746070a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-23T12:30:21Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-02-23:/environmental-issues-and-protection/air-pollution-hurt-school-kids-lungs-4746070a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters Health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Allergy season is known to aggravate kids' asthma attacks, but other types of fine particle pollution in the air throughout the year also measurably affect children's lung function, sometimes dramatically, according to a study by Taiwanese researchers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the day following a rise in one of the air pollutants studied, the researchers found, schoolchildren had a sma...</summary><category term="Respiratory Medicine"></category><category term="Asthma"></category><category term="Microbiology"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Transportation"></category><category term="Air Travel"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="National Taiwan University"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Public Health"></category></entry><entry><title>U.S. air rules seen adding 1.5 mln jobs through 2015</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/air-rules-adding-15-mln-jobs-2015-4739731a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-02-08T08:31:46Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Domestic News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-02-08:/environmental-issues-and-protection/air-rules-adding-15-mln-jobs-2015-4739731a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - Looming &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; rules that power utilities face on air pollution could create nearly 1.5 million jobs over the next five years, according to a report.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Engineering, construction and pipefitting are some of the professions that could see a rise in jobs as &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/t...</summary><category term="Economic Indicators"></category><category term="Labor Market"></category><category term="Job Growth"></category><category term="Economies"></category><category term="U.S. Economy"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Clean Air Policy"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Electric Utilities"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Office of Management and Budget"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="University of Massachusetts Amherst"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Johnson LLP"></category><category term="Lagging Economic Indicators"></category></entry><entry><title>Coal industry fumes as US revokes mining permit</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/coal-industry-fumes-revokes-mining-permit-4729798a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-14T18:30:28Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/coal-industry-fumes-revokes-mining-permit-4729798a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt; The withdrawal of a permit for a controversial "mountaintop removal" coal mining operation has sparked outrage in the US industry, but was hailed as a victory for environmental protection and the health of nearby communities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The move Thursday by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to revoke licenses for a major open-pit mine in &lt;span&gt;West Virginia&lt;/span&gt;, at ...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Coal Mining"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Virginia"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="West Virginia"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Arch Coal Inc."></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Jay Rockefeller"></category><category term="Lisa Jackson (Politician)"></category><category term="Appalachia"></category><category term="National Mining Association"></category><category term="Earl Ray Tomblin"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Water Act"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Logan Coal"></category></entry><entry><title>Indiana power company settles pollution charges</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/indiana-power-company-settles-pollution-charges-4729106a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-13T13:00:20Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-13:/environmental-issues-and-protection/indiana-power-company-settles-pollution-charges-4729106a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Northern Indiana Public Service Company" href="/topic/Northern+Indiana+Public+Service+Company" &gt;Northern Indiana Public Service Co&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, a distribution company of &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="NiSource Inc." href="/topic/NiSource+Inc." &gt;NiSource Inc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, has agreed to settle allegations it violated the &lt;span id="clean_air_act" class="inform"&gt;&lt;a title="Clean Ai...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Indiana"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Gary (Indiana)"></category><category term="NiSource Inc."></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Jeremy Pelofsky"></category><category term="Northern Indiana Public Service Company"></category></entry><entry><title>In 24 states, don't call your old computer 'trash'</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/electronic-waste-and-recycling/24-states-dont-call-computer-trash-4724638a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T06:30:38Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-04:/electronic-waste-and-recycling/24-states-dont-call-computer-trash-4724638a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;24 states require electronic consumers to keep old electronics out of the trash&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get a new flat-screen TV for Christmas and wondering what to do with the old console? Finally replacing that turntable with an MP3 player? Just upgrading your Mac? Whatever it is, you'd better check your state's books before heading to the landfill.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the new year begins, &lt;span&gt;Vermont&lt;/span&gt; is joining New &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="York (Pennsylvania)" href="/topic/York+(Pennsylvania)" &gt;...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="San Francisco"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Mexico"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Southeast Asia"></category><category term="Malaysia"></category><category term="Vermont"></category><category term="Consumer Electronics Association"></category><category term="Waste and Recycling"></category><category term="York (Pennsylvania)"></category><category term="Electronics TakeBack Coalition"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Electronic Waste and Recycling"></category><category term="U.S. State Politics"></category><category term="Vermont Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>Texas, EPA fight over regulations grows fierce</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/texas-epa-fight-regulations-grows-fierce-4721990a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-30T01:00:10Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-30:/environmental-issues-and-protection/texas-epa-fight-regulations-grows-fierce-4721990a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt;, EPA fight over regulations grows fierce despite agreement that environment at risk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A longstanding tit-for-tat between Texas and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; over how to regulate pollution has grown fierce in recent months, leaving industry frustrated and allowing some plants and refineries...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Exxon Mobil Corporation"></category><category term="Deer Park"></category><category term="Rick Perry"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Texas Commission on Environmental Quality"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>GE to pay 500 mln dollars for New York river cleanup</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-cleanup/ge-pay-500-mln-dollars-new-york-river-cleanup-4719248a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-23T17:30:31Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-23:/environmental-cleanup/ge-pay-500-mln-dollars-new-york-river-cleanup-4719248a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="General Electric Company" href="/topic/General+Electric+Company" &gt;General Electric&lt;/a&gt; said Thursday it will soon complete a 500-million-dollar toxic waste cleanup project in &lt;a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" &gt;New York&lt;/a&gt;'s Hudson river to settle a decades-old battle with &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;US&lt;/a&gt; environmental authorities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The giant industrial conglomerate said it had informed the US &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protecti...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Environmental Cleanup"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="General Electric Company"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>EPA chief says agency will deal with tainted water</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/epa-chief-agency-deal-tainted-water-4718546a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-22T16:00:56Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-22:/environmental-issues-and-protection/epa-chief-agency-deal-tainted-water-4718546a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;EPA chief: Agency likely to tighten drinking water standards amid concerns about carcinogen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The head of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; said Wednesday it would likely tighten drinking water standards to address potential health risks of a carcinogen recently detected in the tap water of 31 cities across the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;EPA Administ...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="San Jose"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Norman (Oklahoma)"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="Madison (Wisconsin)"></category><category term="The Associated Press"></category><category term="Environmental Working Group"></category><category term="Honolulu"></category><category term="Dianne Feinstein"></category><category term="Barbara Boxer"></category><category term="Ken Cook"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Bitly Inc."></category><category term="Public Health"></category></entry><entry><title>Republicans plot death of EPA climate rules</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/republicans-plot-death-epa-climate-rules-4718502a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-22T15:31:21Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Politics News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-22:/environmental-issues-and-protection/republicans-plot-death-epa-climate-rules-4718502a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;span&gt;Republicans&lt;/span&gt; poised to take power in Congress are planning a rapid attack against a climate change initiative the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" &gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; wants to launch on January 2, according to members of the Senate and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="/topic/U.S.+House+of+Representatives" &gt;...</summary><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="U.S. Senate"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="U.S. Congress"></category><category term="U.S. House of Representatives"></category><category term="Idaho"></category><category term="Capitol Hill"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="Environmental Defense Fund"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Frank O'Donnell"></category><category term="Clean Air Watch"></category><category term="U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works"></category><category term="Jim Inhofe"></category><category term="Lisa Jackson (Politician)"></category><category term="Mike Simpson"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Senators ask EPA to set chromium 6 standard</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/senators-epa-set-chromium-6-standard-4717851a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-21T17:00:25Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-21:/environmental-issues-and-protection/senators-epa-set-chromium-6-standard-4717851a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Sens. Boxer, Feinstein call on EPA to set drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;U.S. Sens. &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Barbara Boxer" href="/topic/Barbara+Boxer" &gt;Barbara Boxer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Dianne Feinstein" href="/topic/Dianne+Feinstein" &gt;Dianne Feinstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have called on the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to protect the p...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="San Jose"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Norman (Oklahoma)"></category><category term="Madison (Wisconsin)"></category><category term="The Associated Press"></category><category term="Environmental Working Group"></category><category term="Honolulu"></category><category term="Dianne Feinstein"></category><category term="Barbara Boxer"></category><category term="Linda Jackson"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Erin Brockovich (Movie)"></category></entry><entry><title>US water has large amounts of likely carcinogen: study</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/water-large-amounts-carcinogen-study-4716397a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-19T19:30:29Z</updated><author><name>AFP Global Edition</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-19:/environmental-issues-and-protection/water-large-amounts-carcinogen-study-4716397a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;US&lt;/a&gt; environmental group has found that drinking water in 35 American cities contains hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen, &lt;a title="The Washington Post Company" href="/topic/The+Washington+Post+Company" &gt;The Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; reported Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Environmental Working Group" href="/topic/Environmental+Working+Group" &gt;Environmental Working Group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; -- the first nationwide analysi...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="National Institutes of Health"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="The Washington Post Company"></category><category term="Environmental Working Group"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Erin Brockovich (Movie)"></category></entry><entry><title>GE must do more to clean Hudson River: U.S. agency</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/ge-clean-hudson-river-agency-4715405a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-17T15:00:27Z</updated><author><name>Reuters US Online Report Health News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-17:/environmental-issues-and-protection/ge-clean-hudson-river-agency-4715405a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;NEW YORK&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Friday ordered &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="General Electric Company" href="/topic/General+Electric+Company" &gt;General Electric Co&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to dredge deeper into the &lt;a title="Hudson River" href="/topic/Hudson+River" &gt;Hudson River...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="New York City"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="General Electric Company"></category><category term="Hudson River"></category><category term="Jeffrey Immelt"></category><category term="Fort Edward"></category><category term="Hudson Falls"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Proposed Ore. ban on plastic bags wins support</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/proposed-ore-ban-plastic-bags-wins-support-4713819a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-15T16:31:39Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-15:/environmental-issues-and-protection/proposed-ore-ban-plastic-bags-wins-support-4713819a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Proposed &lt;a title="Oregon" href="/topic/Oregon" &gt;Oregon&lt;/a&gt; ban on plastic bags wins support at state hearing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oregon grocers and environmental groups already are lining up to support a proposed statewide ban on single-use plastic checkout bags next year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proposed ban would take effect by November 2011 and require at least a nickel charge on recycled paper checkout bags. The charge is designed to let stores recover the cost of the paper bags and encourage...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Oregon"></category><category term="The Oregonian"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Sierra Club sues Exxon over Baytown refinery pollution</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/sierra-club-sues-exxon-baytown-refinery-pollution-4712787a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-14T07:30:18Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-14:/environmental-issues-and-protection/sierra-club-sues-exxon-baytown-refinery-pollution-4712787a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;HOUSTON&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;a title="Sierra Club" href="/topic/Sierra+Club" &gt;Sierra Club&lt;/a&gt; and Environment &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; filed a federal lawsuit against &lt;a title="Exxon Mobil Corporation" href="/topic/Exxon+Mobil+Corporation" &gt;Exxon Mobil Corp&lt;/a&gt; for five years of excess pollution at the nation's largest refinery, the Sierra Club said on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;...</summary><category term="Trials"></category><category term="Civil Trials"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Exxon Mobil Corporation"></category><category term="Baytown"></category><category term="Sierra Club"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category></entry><entry><title>EPA says gas driller contaminated Texas aquifer</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/epa-gas-driller-contaminated-texas-aquifer-4708349a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-07T17:30:10Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-07:/environmental-issues-and-protection/epa-gas-driller-contaminated-texas-aquifer-4708349a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;EPA: Gas driller contaminated &lt;a title="Texas" href="/topic/Texas" &gt;Texas&lt;/a&gt; aquifer, 48 hours to give clean water to affected families&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has issued an emergency order accusing a Texas gas driller of contaminating an aquifer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The EPA's letter Tuesday gave Range Resources of Forth Worth 48 hours to provid...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Railroad Commission of Texas"></category><category term="North Texas"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Parker County"></category></entry><entry><title>Florida sues EPA over new water pollution controls</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/florida-sues-epa-new-water-pollution-controls-4708223a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-07T15:00:23Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-12-07:/environmental-issues-and-protection/florida-sues-epa-new-water-pollution-controls-4708223a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Miami" href="/topic/Miami" &gt;MIAMI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - &lt;a title="Florida" href="/topic/Florida" &gt;Florida&lt;/a&gt; filed a lawsuit against the &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" href="/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protection+Agency" &gt;Environmental Protection Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Tuesday to block new water pollution controls in the recession-hit state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The complaint, filed in fe...</summary><category term="Travel and Tourism"></category><category term="Tourism"></category><category term="Travel Destinations"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Miami"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Tom Brown"></category><category term="Bill McCollum"></category><category term="Florida Department of Environmental Protection"></category><category term="Florida Department of Agriculture &amp; Consumer Service"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>U.S. to keep emissions goal</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/emissions-goal-4603788a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T16:00:23Z</updated><author><name>Reuters Environmental Online Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/emissions-goal-4603788a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Cancun" href="/topic/Cancun" &gt;CANCUN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Mexico" href="/topic/Mexico" &gt;Mexico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" &gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) - The &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will keep a pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions made last year perhaps with help from a domestic boom in cleaner-burning natural gas, &lt;span&gt;Washington&lt;/span&gt;'s lead negotiator said...</summary><category term="Economic Issues"></category><category term="Economic Development"></category><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Natural Gas Utilities"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="India"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="Denmark"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Mexico"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Copenhagen"></category><category term="United Nations"></category><category term="Reuters Group plc"></category><category term="Cancun"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Kyoto"></category><category term="Kyoto Protocol"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="South Asia"></category><category term="Nordic Countries"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Green Dry Cleaning without Perc: Be Aware of Perchloroethylene Hazards</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/green-dry-cleaning-perc-aware-perchloroethylene-hazards-4401830a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:33:35Z</updated><author><name>Bright Hub</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/green-dry-cleaning-perc-aware-perchloroethylene-hazards-4401830a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Company Activities and Information"></category><category term="Partnerships"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="The Procter &amp; Gamble Company"></category><category term="Environmental Public Health"></category><category term="General Electric Company"></category><category term="Chevron Corporation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category><category term="Public Health"></category></entry><entry><title>Expense Of Funerals Driving People to Cremation, Natural Burial</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/sustainability/expense-funerals-driving-people-cremation-natural-burial-4451006a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:54:21Z</updated><author><name>Suite 101</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/sustainability/expense-funerals-driving-people-cremation-natural-burial-4451006a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="United Kingdom"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Green Living"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Sustainability"></category><category term="Jill Larson"></category><category term="Memorial Day"></category><category term="Regina Lee"></category></entry><entry><title>Organic Vodka</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/sustainability/organic-vodka-4436479a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:47:50Z</updated><author><name>Robb Report</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/sustainability/organic-vodka-4436479a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Company Activities and Information"></category><category term="Partnerships"></category><category term="Food and Cooking"></category><category term="Foods"></category><category term="Organic Foods"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Organic and Sustainable Agriculture"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Minnesota"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Sustainability"></category><category term="Consumer Non-Cyclicals"></category></entry><entry><title>Massachusetts Erosion &amp; Sedimentation Standards of Control</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/massachusetts-erosion-sedimentation-standards-control-4413343a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:38:12Z</updated><author><name>eHow</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/massachusetts-erosion-sedimentation-standards-control-4413343a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Massachusetts"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Asian coal exports get boost from WA port approval</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/asian-coal-exports-boost-wa-port-approval-4388074a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-23T16:31:05Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-23:/environmental-issues-and-protection/asian-coal-exports-boost-wa-port-approval-4388074a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Approval of coal export terminal in &lt;a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" &gt;Washington&lt;/a&gt; could mean more Western coal headed to &lt;a title="Asia" href="/topic/Asia" &gt;Asia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Efforts by the &lt;span&gt;U.S.&lt;/span&gt; coal industry to expand its export market have taken a significant step forward Tuesday, as officials in Washington state approved a plan to ship the fuel to &lt;span&gt;Asia&lt;/span&gt; through a &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="Columbia River" href="/topic/Columbia+Ri...</summary><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Coal Mining"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="North America"></category><category term="Oregon"></category><category term="China"></category><category term="Montana"></category><category term="Australia"></category><category term="Wyoming"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="Portland (Oregon)"></category><category term="Columbia River"></category><category term="The Associated Press"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="Oceania"></category><category term="U.S. Army Corps of Engineers"></category><category term="Powder River Basin"></category><category term="Earthjustice"></category><category term="Columbia Riverkeeper"></category><category term="Cowlitz County"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category></entry><entry><title>BLM lease sale protested over climate concerns</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/blm-lease-sale-protested-climate-concerns-4388003a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-23T15:30:29Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-23:/environmental-issues-and-protection/blm-lease-sale-protested-climate-concerns-4388003a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Groups protest 234 square miles of planned oil and gas leases in &lt;a title="Montana" href="/topic/Montana" &gt;Montana&lt;/a&gt;, Dakotas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Environmental groups on Tuesday sought to cancel the December sale of oil and gas leases on more than 234 square miles of public lands in Montana, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="North Dakota" href="/topic/North+Dakota" &gt;North Dakota&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;a title="South Dakota" href="/topic/South+Dakota" &gt;South Dakota&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a formal protes...</summary><category term="Sciences"></category><category term="Earth Science"></category><category term="Climatology"></category><category term="Global Climate Change"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Oil and Gas Exploration and Drilling"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Bureau of Land Management"></category><category term="Montana"></category><category term="South Dakota"></category><category term="North Dakota"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Marc Smith"></category><category term="Fossil Fuel Energy Production"></category></entry><entry><title>Environmental Engineering Defined</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/environmental-engineering-defined-4401105a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:33:18Z</updated><author><name>Bright Hub</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/environmental-engineering-defined-4401105a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Clean Air Policy"></category><category term="Clean Water Policy"></category><category term="Engineering"></category><category term="Civil Engineering"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Conservation of Resources"></category><category term="Architectural and Engineering Services"></category><category term="Waste Management Services"></category><category term="Hazardous Waste Management"></category><category term="Water and Sewer Utilities"></category><category term="Water Supply and Irrigation Systems"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Water Resource Issues"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Clean Air Act"></category><category term="Clean Water Act"></category><category term="Resource Conservation and Recovery Act"></category><category term="Safe Drinking Water Act"></category><category term="Toxic Substances Control Act"></category></entry><entry><title>Reduce, Reuse, Recycle&amp;hellip;or Rethink</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/waste-and-recycling/reduce-reuse-recyclehellipor-rethink-4442908a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:50:56Z</updated><author><name>Strategy + Business</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/waste-and-recycling/reduce-reuse-recyclehellipor-rethink-4442908a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Electronics"></category><category term="Communications Products"></category><category term="Consumer Electronics"></category><category term="Cellular Phones"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Latin America"></category><category term="Michigan"></category><category term="Germany"></category><category term="Hewlett-Packard Company"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Africa"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Western Europe"></category><category term="Tel Aviv University"></category><category term="Motorola Inc."></category><category term="Apple iPhone"></category><category term="Apple Inc."></category><category term="Wal-Mart Stores Inc."></category><category term="Sprint Nextel Corporation"></category><category term="Ford Mustang"></category><category term="AT&amp;T Inc."></category><category term="Verizon Communications Inc."></category><category term="Waste and Recycling"></category><category term="HTC Corporation"></category><category term="Lexmark International Inc."></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category><category term="Smartphones"></category><category term="Car Allowance Rebate System"></category><category term="Apple iPad"></category><category term="Earth Day"></category><category term="ReCellular Inc."></category><category term="Vered Doctori Blass"></category></entry><entry><title>America's Dirtiest Vehicles</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/americas-dirtiest-vehicles-4420559a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:41:13Z</updated><author><name>Forbes</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/americas-dirtiest-vehicles-4420559a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"></category><category term="Energy Efficiency and Conservation"></category><category term="Environmental Issues and Protection"></category></entry><entry><title>Nissan Leaf runs equivalent of 99 miles per gallon</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/environmental-issues-and-protection/nissan-leaf-runs-equivalent-99-miles-gallon-4420504a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-29T14:41:11Z</updated><author><name>Forbes</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2010-11-29:/environmental-issues-and-protection/nissan-leaf-runs-equivalent-99-miles-gallon-4420504a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Environmental Policy"></category><category term="Public Finance"></category><category term="Taxes"></category><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Automotive Technology"></category><category term="Electric Vehicles"></category><category term="Nature and the Environment"></category><category term="Motor Vehicle Manufacturing"></category><category term="Automobile Manufacturing"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="New York"></category><category term="Oregon"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="New Jersey"></category><category term="Michigan"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category 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rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-05T01:31:08Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-05:/photo/south-korea-koreas-clash-2406227p/</id><summary type="html">South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, right, shakes hands with &lt;a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" &gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; special envoy on &lt;a title="North Korea" href="/topic/North+Korea" &gt;North Korea&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Stephen Bosworth" href="/topic/Stephen+Bosworth" &gt;Stephen Bosworth&lt;/a&gt; before their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in &lt;a title="Seoul" href="/topic/Seoul" &gt;Seoul&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. 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        Copyright 2011&amp;#16...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="International Relations"></category><category term="Diplomacy"></category><category term="Foreign Policy"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Asia-Pacific Politics"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Asia"></category><category term="South Korea"></category><category term="Seoul"></category><category term="East Asia"></category><category term="North Korea"></category><category term="Stephen Bosworth"></category><category term="North Korean Politics"></category><category term="South Korean Politics"></category></entry><entry><title>Hawks Kings Basketball</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/photo/hawks-kings-basketball-2406196p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T22:01:19Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-04:/photo/hawks-kings-basketball-2406196p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Sacramento Kings" href="/topic/Sacramento+Kings" &gt;Sacramento Kings&lt;/a&gt; forward &lt;a title="Carl Landry" href="/topic/Carl+Landry" &gt;Carl Landry&lt;/a&gt;, center, goes to the basket against &lt;a title="Atlanta Hawks" href="/topic/Atlanta+Hawks" &gt;Atlanta Hawks&lt;/a&gt; forward &lt;a title="Al Horford" href="/topic/Al+Horford" &gt;Al Horford&lt;/a&gt;, right, as Hawks center &lt;a title="Zaza Pachulia" href="/topic/Zaza+Pachulia" &gt;Zaza Pachulia&lt;/a&gt;, left, of &lt;a title="Republic of Georgia" href="/topic/Republic+of+Geor...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="Men's Professional Basketball"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="National Basketball Association"></category><category term="NBA Eastern Conference"></category><category term="NBA Western Conference"></category><category term="Republic of Georgia"></category><category term="Atlanta Hawks"></category><category term="Carl Landry"></category><category term="Al Horford"></category><category term="Sacramento Kings"></category><category term="Zaza Pachulia"></category><category term="NBA Pacific"></category><category term="NBA Southeast"></category></entry><entry><title>Blue Jackets Coyotes Hockey</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/photo/blue-jackets-coyotes-hockey-2406172p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T21:01:31Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-04:/photo/blue-jackets-coyotes-hockey-2406172p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Columbus Blue Jackets" href="/topic/Columbus+Blue+Jackets" &gt;Columbus Blue Jackets&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="R.J. Umberger" href="/topic/R.J.+Umberger" &gt;R.J. Umberger&lt;/a&gt; (18) scores a goal against &lt;a title="Phoenix Coyotes" href="/topic/Phoenix+Coyotes" &gt;Phoenix Coyotes&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;a title="Ilya Bryzgalov" href="/topic/Ilya+Bryzgalov" &gt;Ilya Bryzgalov&lt;/a&gt;, of &lt;a title="Russia" href="/topic/Russia" &gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt;, during the second period of an &lt;a title="National Hockey League" href="/topic/National+Hockey+...</summary><category term="Hockey"></category><category term="Professional Hockey"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category term="Europe"></category><category term="Russia"></category><category term="Glendale"></category><category term="National Hockey League"></category><category term="NHL Western Conference"></category><category term="Columbus Blue Jackets"></category><category term="Phoenix Coyotes"></category><category term="Ilya Bryzgalov"></category><category term="R.J. Umberger"></category><category term="NHL Pacific"></category><category term="NHL Central"></category></entry><entry><title>Ohio St Iowa Basketball</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/photo/ohio-st-iowa-basketball-2406157p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T20:31:37Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-04:/photo/ohio-st-iowa-basketball-2406157p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Ohio State Buckeyes (Basketball)" href="/topic/Ohio+State+Buckeyes+(Basketball)" &gt;Ohio State&lt;/a&gt; forward &lt;a title="Jared Sullinger" href="/topic/Jared+Sullinger" &gt;Jared Sullinger&lt;/a&gt;, left, shoots over &lt;a title="Iowa" href="/topic/Iowa" &gt;Iowa&lt;/a&gt; forward &lt;a title="Andrew Brommer" href="/topic/Andrew+Brommer" &gt;Andrew Brommer&lt;/a&gt; during the first half of an &lt;a title="National Collegiate Athletic Association" href="/topic/National+Collegiate+Athletic+Association" &gt;NCAA&lt;/a&gt; college basketb...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="College Basketball"></category><category term="College Athletics"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Iowa"></category><category term="National Collegiate Athletic Association"></category><category term="Iowa City"></category><category term="Andrew Brommer"></category><category term="Ohio State Buckeyes (Basketball)"></category><category term="Jared Sullinger"></category></entry><entry><title>Archdiocese Bankruptcy</title><link href="http://environmentalproblemsandprotection.com/photo/archdiocese-bankruptcy-2406091p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2011-01-04T16:30:52Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:environmentalproblemsandprotection.com,2011-01-04:/photo/archdiocese-bankruptcy-2406091p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Jerome Listecki" href="/topic/Jerome+Listecki" &gt;Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki&lt;/a&gt; answers questions at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in St. Francis, &lt;a title="Wisconsin" href="/topic/Wisconsin" &gt;Wis.&lt;/a&gt; Listecki said the &lt;a title="Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee" href="/topic/Catholic+Archdiocese+of+Milwaukee" &gt;Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee&lt;/a&gt; is directing its attorneys to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, saying that pending sexual-abuse lawsuits have left it w...</summary><category term="Company Activities and Information"></category><category term="Company Bankruptcies"></category><category term="Trials"></category><category term="Civil Trials"></category><category term="Religion"></category><category term="Christianity"></category><category term="Roman Catholicism"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Wisconsin"></category><category term="Jerome Listecki"></category><category term="Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee"></category><category term="Morry Gash"></category></entry></feed>
