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Public Pushes Back Against Planned Test on Old Nuke Site By Megan Tady, The NewStandard Suspicious of government assurances that a planned desert explosion in Utah will not rekindle radioactive fallout from past events, Westerners and Native Americans want the plan halted.

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Anne Applebaum | Global Warming's Simple Remedy
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020907EA.shtml
Anne Applebaum on the recent headlines reporting the scary news of global
warming. She wonders whether people will take this fear and turn it into action
and prescribes carbon taxation as the simple solution.
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Environmental Working Group: Fragrances Hide Toxic Chemical Ingredients
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0209-07.htm
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Feeling the Heat
Bush administration put on the defensive over climate change

After six years of dodging the climate issue, the Bush administration is finally having to face it head on. A letter released by the White House on Wednesday claimed that "climate change has been a top priority since the president's first year in office" and that "President Bush has consistently acknowledged climate change is occurring and humans are contributing to the problem." Yes, really -- it said that. Muckraker takes a hard look at the administration's new talking points, finding considerably less than meets the eye.

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Inuit Say Global Warming Destroying Their Way of Life
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020907EB.shtml
A delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington, DC, to provide first-hand
testimony of how global warming is destroying their way of life, and to accuse
the Bush administration of undermining their human rights.
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Hybrids Could Turn Big US Truck Fleets Green
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0209-02.htm
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BP's Texas Refinery "Largest Emitter of Carcinogenic Toxins in US"
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020907EC.shtml
A new report has named a Texas refinery owned and operated by BP as the largest
emitter of carcinogenic toxins in the US.
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Smoking-gun Proof That Misuse of Antibiotics Breeds Superbugs
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0209-06.htm
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NY to Sue Exxon Mobil Over Underground Oil Slick in Brooklyn
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020907ED.shtml
New York's attorney general told Exxon Mobil and two other oil companies
Thursday that he intends to sue them for taking decades to clean up a giant
underground pond of petroleum left by the refineries that once lined Brooklyn's
waterfront.
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Wilderness Society: Bureau of Land Management to Sell Sacred Lands for Oil & Gas in Utah
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0209-06.htm

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