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"Mexico Sees Support For U.N. Climate Finance Plan"

"A Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change is winning backing in talks on a new U.N. treaty, paradoxically because no one really likes it, a Mexican official said on Wednesday."

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Mexico

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

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"U.S. Envoy Sees Climate Partnership With China"

"The United States wants to forge a partnership with China, bringing the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases together to address global warming, Washington's top climate diplomat said on Wednesday."

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Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

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"Judge Orders Halt To Mining Protests"

"A Raleigh County [WV] judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block anti-mountaintop removal activists from further peaceful protests on certain Massey Energy mining sites."

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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV)

Source: Charleston Gazette, 06/04/2009

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"Black Tide"

"Just days before Christmas last year, an environmental disaster one hundred times the size of the Exxon Valdez (yes, you read that right) unfolded on a riverbank in eastern Tennessee. A wave of poisonous sludge buried a town…along with the myth of clean coal."

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Source: GQ, 06/04/2009

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EPA Studies Used-Tire Playground Risks

"The federal government is reconsidering whether sports fields and playgrounds made from ground-up tires could harm children's health after some Environmental Protection Agency scientists raised concerns,"

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National (U.S.)

Source: AP, 06/04/2009

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"Companies Not Disclosing Climate Risks: Studies"

"Most global industrial companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases are not adequately detailing their climate strategies in U.S. financial filings, two studies by environmental and investment groups showed on Wednesday."

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International

Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009

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"Recycled Radioactive Metal Contaminates Consumer Products"

"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."

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National (U.S.)

Source: Scripps, 06/04/2009

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New EPA Procedure Improves Transparency on Air Standards

The Obama EPA partially reverses a Bush-era procedure for setting health-based standards under the Clean Air Act.

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"Crime Scene Cleanup" in Kelly AFB Toxics Case

New evidence indicates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry fails to protect communities from dangers such as the now-disappearing plumes of toxic groundwater carrying cancer-causing chemicals far beyond the Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, TX.

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List of Nuclear Sites Released in Flub

The Government Printing Office web site apparently took down the publication after discovery of the mistake -- but the entire report is still available on the site of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.

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