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Company seeks first U.S. oil sands project, in Utah
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2010
Associated Press: An energy company with government approvals to launch the first significant U.S. oil sands project is trying to raise money to build a plant in eastern Utah that would turn out 2,000 barrels of oil a day. Earth Energy Resources Inc. has a state lease to work a 62-acre pit in Uintah County, where it has demonstrated technology that can extract oil out of sands using a proprietary solvent it calls environmentally friendly. But first, the Calgary, Alberta-based company says it ...
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BPA not just in food and water, but all over the ocean
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2010
Mongabay: Increasingly consumers are concerned about the chemical bisphenol A or more-widely known as BPA, which is present in certain plastics. The chemical is capable of leaching from plastic containers and liners into our food and drink. European, Canadian, and US governments have recently backtracked on longstanding arguments that BPA was not harmful and now warn that there is evidence that it is harmful to fetuses, infants, and maybe children and adults. Now, researchers announce a new place ...
‘Very dramatic’ changes in Greenland: ice loss spreads north
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2010
Mongabay: Over the past ten years scientists have measured increasing ice loss along southern Greenland. Now a new study in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the ice loss has spread north with likely consequences for global sea level rise. Collecting data from NASA's satellite Gravity and Recovery Climate Experiment, known as GRACE, and GPS measurements of the bedrock on the edges of the ice sheet, the Denmark Technical Institute's National Space Institute in Copenhagen was able to show ...
Russian protesters say factory to pollute world’s oldest lake
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 28th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: Hundreds of people protested on Sunday in Moscow against the reopening of a factory environmentalists say will lead to waste being dumped into the world's oldest lake, a Greenpeace activist said. "The fate of (factory) workers must be decided while taking into account the fate of (Lake) Baikal -- and not that of the oligarchs," Russian writer Valentin Rasputin said in a message read out during the protest. Greenpeace activist Evgeny Usov put the number of protesters at nearly ...