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Pollution as big a health problem as malaria or TB, finds report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2012
Guardian: Waste from mining, lead smelters, industrial dumps and other toxic sites affects the health of an estimated 125 million people in 49 low- and middle-income countries. This unrecognised health burden is on the scale of malaria or tuberculosis (TB), a new report has found.
This year's World's worst pollution problems (pdf) report was published on Tuesday by the Blacksmith Institute in partnership with Green Cross Switzerland. It documents, for the first time, the public health impact of industrial...
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US downplayed effect of Deepwater on whales, emails reveal
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2012
Guardian: A cache of newly uncovered documents from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – including gruesome photographs of a dead whale – are raising questions about the environmental cost of the disaster and the price tag the oil company will have to pay to set it right.
Documents, obtained by the campaign group Greenpeace under freedom of information provisions and made available to the Guardian, offer a rare glimpse into how many whales came into close contact with the gushing BP well during...
Half the Global 500 facing water stress, says CDP
Posted by BusinessGreen: None Given on October 24th, 2012
BusinessGreen: More than half the world's largest listed companies are affected by water stress, but many are failing to set targets to improve water stewardship, a new Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) survey has found.
In a report published yesterday in partnership with Deloitte, CDP reveals 53 per cent of the 185 Global 500 companies participating in the poll have experienced water-related challenges, including scarcity, flooding, rising compliance costs, regulatory uncertainty and poor water quality in the...
Canadian Government Continues to Choose Dirty Energy Over Democracy
Posted by EcoWatch: David Suzuki on October 24th, 2012
EcoWatch: On Oct. 22, more than 3,000 people braved the rain and cold on the front lawn of the legislature of British Columbia to protest the Northern Gateway pipeline project.
Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through?
The problems with the plan to run pipelines from the Alberta tar sands across northern B.C. to load unrefined, diluted bitumen onto supertankers for export to China and...