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The organization is funded by the 11th Hour Project, which was founded by Wendy Schmidt, who also serves on the boards of The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, among other enviro-related... Full Article at Treehugger
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Ma Jun Takes on Technology, Apparel Industries and Chinese Government to Fight Factory Pollution
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For example, the media. There are toxic spills every now and then, and many of them will check our website to see whether it's just one accident or whether it's kind of a serial polluter. And we have NGOs, and researchers and professionals, who also... Full Article at Treehugger
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Cleaning up our air, water, ground. Stabilizing our climate. Making life better for people all around the world. Saving endangered animal species. All these things should be enough in themselves to convince most of us to do the right thing for the... Full Article at Treehugger
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Patrick McMullan. Christie's green auction Bid to Save the Earth, presented by JW Marriott. This week, Christie's hosted their third annual green auction A Bid To Save the Earth to raise funds for top environmental non-profits Oceana, Natural Resource... Full Article at Treehugger
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Watch How an iPad is Made at Foxconn (Video), New Report Delivers More Balanced View on Worker Conditions
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Schmitz's first installment brings a more balanced tone to the discussion on the conditions for workers at Foxconn. During several interviews outside the factory gates, he states that workers would often laugh at the stories reported here in America... Full Article at Treehugger
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Michigan Business Owner Deb Miller Describes the Impact of the Kalamazoo River Tar Sands Oil Spill
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Over the last two years, an unusually high number of bottlenose dolphins have beached along the shores of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and western Florida, raising enormous concern—and for good reason. Even in a species known to experience mass... Full Article at Treehugger
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The EPA has denied a request made by NRDC to ban 2,4-D, one of the top-selling and most widely-used herbicides in the country that was also a key ingredient in Agent Orange. The EPA said in its decision that it "evaluated all the data cited by NRDC and... Full Article at Treehugger
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We share photos of our kids, where and what we're eating, and now we can share our energy use. We reported last fall on Facebook's plans to partner with Opower and the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) to launch a "social energy" app that will... Full Article at Treehugger
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Despite the worrisome 1976 findings, the FDA didn’t change the rules for antibiotic use on farms. “We think basically that the FDA has caved to the agricultural industry,” said Avinash Kar, a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. ... Full Article at Arkansas Online
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Northern California interests attacked the bill as a threat to their senior water rights, forcing Republican Reps. Devin Nunes and Tom McClintock to amend the bill. In a recent blog post, a policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council... Full Article at Sacramento Bee
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That’s because the American preference to use plush, soft paper for our oh-so-delicate behinds is contributing to the loss of old growth forests. The Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace are campaigning globally to get manufacturers to... Full Article at Elephant Journal
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Ohio fracking bill does not go far enough to protect human health and the environment
Natural Resources Defenses CouncilFirst, the bill doesn’t require any disclosures until 60 days after the drilling of a well is completed. By that time, any damage that might have occurred from the frack job will already have been set in motion, and neither Ohio Department of Natural... Full Article at Natural Resources Defenses Council
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Curiously, the EPA gave no notice of its environmental assessment to Seattle-area media outlets. An estimated 1,000 people from Washington fish commercially in Bristol Bay each year. Joel Reynolds of the Natural Resources Defense Council stressed that... Full Article at Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Science In Defense of a National Treasure: EPA Releases Draft Assessment of Large-Scale Mining (aka the Pebble Mine) in the Bristol Bay Watershed
Natural Resources Defenses CouncilThe Kvichak River produces more sockeye salmon than any other river in the world. The Nushagak River is the fourth largest producer of Chinook salmon in North America. Bristol Bay’s wild salmon fishery and other ecological resources provide at least... Full Article at Natural Resources Defenses Council
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House Passes Back-Door Attempt to Force Tar Sands Pipeline Approval
Natural Resources Defenses CouncilThe following is a statement from Natural Resources Defense Council Legislative Director Scott Slesinger after the House passed a motion to instruct transportation bill conferees to include a tar sands pipeline provision in final legislation: “Instead... Full Article at Natural Resources Defenses Council
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Across the Midwest the biggest storms increased by 103 percent from 1961 through 2011, a study released by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council reported on Wednesday. States in the upper Midwest fared worse... Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune
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It's a popular argument in his circle. Daniel Lashof, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program, suggested that as far as cars and light trucks go, American natural gas would be consumed more efficiently by using... Full Article at Jalopnik
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An essential mineral ingredient used in a variety of electronics from cell phones to smart bombs could be a death knell for a pristine part of a wild New Mexico desert grassland coveted by environmentalists—and considered sacred to Native Americans. ... Full Article at Natural Resources Defenses Council
