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| Selling the blue sky. |
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The market for greenhouse gas emissions is a bazaar - dependent entirely on government regulation - selling various types of pollution. But can it reduce emissions? The answer so far: Not yet. Second of three parts. |
| Children's products may contain hazardous metals. |
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Rain coats, hair barrettes and jewelry seem harmless. But Consumer Reports magazine says a series of tests uncovered "worrisome levels" of potentially hazardous metals in such children's products currently on store shelves. |
| Lawn care products face ban in NJ. |
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Called the most comprehensive and prohibitive legislation of its kind in the nation by supporters and opponents alike, a bill making its way through Trenton would ban many lawn care products on the shelf today. |
| Birds dying in oilsands at 30 times the rate reported, says study. |
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A new study says birds are likely dying in oilsands tailings ponds at least 30 times the rate suggested by industry and government, adding weight to arguments that depending on industry to monitor its own environmental impact isn’t working. |
| 8 of the most toxic energy projects on the planet. |
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While Deepwater Horizon may have attracted the lion's share of media attention this past Spring and Summer, there are a number of other toxic projects still going on. Below, we look at some of the worst. |
| BP report says series of failures led to oil spill. |
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The oil giant BP said Wednesday in its internal report that a series of failures involving a number of companies ultimately led to the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Oil from Gulf spill will not create dead zones,' study says. |
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Millions of barrels of crude spewed by BP's blown-out well have reduced deep-sea oxygen levels - but nowhere near enough to create another of the "dead zones" that periodically plague the Gulf of Mexico, a federal study said Tuesday. |
| U.S. to use BP cash to study spill health effects. |
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it would use $10 million from BP to start a multiyear study to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Marine scientists seek standards for spill research. |
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Much of the scientific effort that has followed the Gulf spill has focused on how much oil escaped and where it's gone. But biologists want to know how that oil might affect marine life over the long term, and many say they're puzzled by the lack of an organized research effort to measure the damage. |
| Ten million without shelter in Pakistan floods: UN. |
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Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe. |
