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PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - Oregon'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.The rules, subject to approval by the Environmental Protection Agency, are up to ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of 72 businesses, including household names such as Coca-Cola and Google, joined forces on Wednesday in support of deeper European cuts to greenhouse gases.They signed a declaration calling for the European Union to extend to 30 percent ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls rappelled down the side of Mattel's headquarters on Tuesday to unfurl a banner saying Barbie packaging contributes to rainforest destruction.The massive pink-and-blue sign on the Mattel building in El Segundo, outside Los ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised new concerns to the State Department about TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring polluting oil sands crude from Canada to the U.S. market.In a letter on Monday to the State ...
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Slowing deforestation and greater awareness of the value of standing trees may come too late to save the world's biggest rainforests, according to a global assessment of tropical forests published Tuesday.Tropical forests are threatened by pressures to clear ...
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - The Republic of Congo will plant 1 million hectares of trees by 2020 to restore degraded forest and provide wood for paper and fuel, the president said on Friday.President Denis Sassou N'Guesso made the announcement on the final day ...
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - The rate of destruction of the world's three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared with the previous one, but remains alarmingly high in some countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said.A report entitled The State of ...
GEMENA, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Reuters) - Simon Kasagana knows his meager livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in the vast Congo basin, he has little choice but to destroy it.He used to be ...
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Representatives from 35 countries will seek ways to protect the world's largest rainforests during a week-long meeting in Republic of Congo starting on Tuesday.The outcome of the summit could play a role in the preservation of some 80 percent ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The world would not have to dig so much metal out of the ground if it strongly embraced recycling, which could be higher, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday.Smarter product designs and support for developing country waste ...
