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Bin Laden criticizes Pakistan relief, urges climate action
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
Reuters: Osama bin Laden criticized relief efforts in Pakistan and called for action against climate change in what appeared to be a new audio tape from the al Qaeda leader issued on Friday in an Islamist forum. The message marks the second time in a year that Bin Laden has departed from his usual calls for armed attacks on the West to make a global theme such a natural disasters or economic crisis the centerpiece of a message. It follows a statement in mid-September by al Qaeda number ...
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Bin Laden concerned by climate, Pakistan floods: Audiotape
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
Economic Times: Bin Laden has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in , in an audiotape aired on the Internet, his first public remarks since March, a monitoring group said today. "The number of victims caused by climate change is very big... bigger than the victims of wars," said the voice, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified and was made available by SITE Intelligence Group. The tape would be the first time Bin Laden has spoken publicly since March ...
Bin Laden Laments Climate Change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
NYT: Don`t expect him to appear at the next international climate summit, but in a new tape circulating on the Internet, Osama bin Laden weighs in on climate change, linking the catastrophic floods in Pakistan to man-made warming. "The number of victims caused by climate change is very big" -- "bigger than the victims of wars," says a voice that the watchdog group SITE identified as that of the international terrorist mastermind. The tape`s authenticity could not be verified. "The ...
Push for Tar-Sands Pipeline Sparks Fierce Hill Debate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
Greenwire: From cap and trade to chemicals reform to offshore drilling, 2010 was marked by pitched environmental battles that Congress left unsettled as the clock wound down. But some of the season's most intense political jockeying has come over a $7 billion project that lawmakers can neither approve nor veto. The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry up to 900,000 barrels per day of Canadian oil sands to Texas refineries, nearly doubling U.S. imports from a crude reserve ranked as the ...
Argentina: Environmentalists Welcome New Law to Protect Glaciers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
Inter Press Service: Environmental organisations in Argentina are celebrating the passage of a law restricting the extraction of minerals, oil and gas near glaciers, in order to protect these vast freshwater reserves. By a vote of 35 to 33, the Senate approved the bill to preserve glaciers and their surrounding areas Thursday. Lawmakers supporting the centre-left government of President Cristina Fernández said this time the president would not veto the measure, as she did when Congress passed a similar ...
GE Salmon an Ambiguous Milestone for Aquaculture
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
Inter Press Service: The march toward domesticating the last wild food source may be about to take a major step forward in Washington - for better or worse. Following a series of hearings last week the U.S. government's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering whether to approve for human consumption a genetically engineered species of Atlantic salmon. The debate here has focused on whether raising this salmon in aquaculture operations would pose a hazard to human or environmental health. ...
AP source: EPA seeks to regulate chemical in water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 1st, 2010
AP: The Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel that has contaminated drinking water supplies, reversing a decision made under the Bush administration. A government official briefed by the EPA told The Associated Press on Thursday night that the agency has proposed that the chemical, perchlorate, be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The official, who did not want to be named because a final decision has not been made, said the plan ...