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NY Lawmakers Propose Studying Health Impact Of Fracking
(International Business Times)
EPA Adds Eighteen Mile Creek In Niagara County, N.Y. To The Superfund List
EPA Proposes To Add An Area Of Orange And West Orange, N.J. To The Superfund List
(EPA)
The Bioswales Of New York: A City Plan To Make More Tree-Stands And Less Sewage Runoff
(Capital NY)
The U.N. Headquarters Goes Green With A $1.8 Billion Renovation
(Inhabitat)
Indoor Farm In Brooklyn Helps Feed Hundreds Of Families
In New York City, Stealing A Bike Is Easy
(Grist)
Underground Eco Park In Progress On NYC’s Lower East Side
(ENN)
A Greener Strategy For New York’s Runaway Sewage
Ask About Raptors In New York City
The Hawk Cam Is Back For Another Season
(NY Times)
New York City Organic Produce
(Green Chip Stocks)
Fishing Fleet Floundering Under Blackfish Ban
(Brooklyn Daily)
NYPD Accident Investigation Blames Dead Cyclist For Williamsburg Crash
Cops Really Did Crack Down On Prospect Park Cyclists
(Gothamist)
New York City Installing More Street-Side Bicycle Parking
(Mother Nature Network)
A NY-Based Firm Blends Landscape Architecture With Activism
(NYRP)
Brookfield’s Harmonic Generator: One World Financial Center Gets Green Garage
(NY Observer)
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National News >
Report: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline More Of An Economic Liability Than Benefit
How An Anti-Democratic, Corporate-Friendly Pennsylvania Law Has Elevated The Battle Over Fracking To A Civil Rights Fight
(Alter Net)
Tapped Out: Water In California’s Farm Country Is Dangerously Polluted
(Grist)
California’s Military Bases Could Generate 30x More Electricity From Solar Power Than They Consume
(Treehugger)
Endangered Species Act Stirs New Debates
(Mother Nature Network)
Quiet Foundation Funds The ‘Anti-Fracking’ Fight
Nonprofit Tapped Stimulus Funds To Subsidize Coal Mine
(E & E News)
Greenhouse Goal Has Disappeared From Obama’s ‘Blueprint For A Secure Energy Future’
Utah And Arizona Throw Out U.S. Constitution In Right-Wing Attack On Public Lands
(Think Progress)
Natural Gas Bill Profits Four Billionaires
(Huffington Post)
Pennsylvania Sierra Club Exposes The Truth Of New Fracking Law
(Sierra Club)
Senate GOP To Obama: Accept Yucca Mountain Or Return Yucca Development Money
(The Hill)
Sen. Roberts’ Amendment To Transportation Bill Is Just a Wish List For Big Oil
(NRDC)
Gag Order: Why States Are Banning Factory-Farm Whistleblowers
(Good)
Northeast, Midwest See Record High Temperatures
(Chicago Tribune)
Rains Soak, Flood Southern Louisiana
(CNN)
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International News >
Asian Development Bank Warns Climate Change Could Spawn Mass Migrations
Heavy Rain Causes Flood In North Chile
(Washington Post)
Climate Change Is Forcing Entire Countries to Migrate
(Good )
Kiribati Considers Moving Entire Population To A $2 Billion Man-Made Island
(Inhabitat)
Water or gold? Across South America Protests Target Multinational Mining
(World Crunch)
South Korea’s Smart Meter Program To Eliminate Need For New Nuclear Reactor By 2016
(Inhabitat)
Japan Cuts Whaling Season Short At 70% Below Quota – A Win For Whales
(NRDC)
A Drought In The Spring Will Hit Britain’s Birds, Beer And Potatoes
(The Guardian)
New Flood Disaster Zones Declared In North South Wales, Austraila
(News 9)
Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations Held In Japan, Elsewhere
(Asahi)
U.S. To File WTO Complaint Over China Rare-Earth Export Caps
(Bloomberg)
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Science, Technology, Health & The Planet >
Great Barrier Reef ‘At A Crossroads’
(Wall Street Journal)
Tar Sands Emit More Carbon Than Previously Estimated
(ENN)
Water Pollution From Farming Is Worsening, Costing Billions
(Bloomberg)
Mysterious Hog Farm Explosions Stump Scientists
(Wired)
Warm Spring, More Tornadoes? Meteorologists Raise Red Flags
(Christian Science Monitor)
How Carbon Offsets Can Help Provide Clean Water For All
(Treehugger)
Demand For Vegetable Oil Increases Rate Of Deforestation
(Triple Pundit)
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Business >
Tar Sands Industry Claims About Restoring Ecosystems Just Greenwashing, New Report Says
European Company Buys Rights To Amazon Tribe’s Ancestral Land
(Treehugger)
Monsanto Tests Drought-Resistant Corn Seeds
(Huffington Post)
Broad Coalition Offers Plan To Accelerate Adoption Of Plug-In Electric Vehicles
(Center for Climate and Energy Solutions)
Slicing Silicon Thinner To Cut The Price Of Solar Cells
(NY Times)
Feds Let BP Off Probation Despite Pending Safety Violations
(Pro Publica)
PG&E, San Bruno Reach $70 Million Restitution Agreement After Gas Pipeline Explosion
(Mercury News)
Home Depot Teams Up With USGBC To Bring Customers Green Building Products
(Inhabitat)
L’Oréal Funds $1.2m Animal-Free Toxicology Research With EPA’s ToxCast
Latin America’s Largest Wind Farm To Power Coke, Heineken Production
(Environmental Leader)
Philips Defends New Energy Efficient Light Bulb
(Triple Pundit)
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