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Poison warmed over: Climate change may hurt animals' ability to live on toxic plants
2016-01-16 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: University of Utah lab experiments found that when temperatures get warmer, woodrats suffer a reduced ability to live on their normal diet of toxic creosote - suggesting that global warming may hurt plant-eating animals. "This study adds to our understanding of how climate change may affect mammals, in that their ability to consume dietary toxins is impaired by warmer temperatures," says biologist Denise Dearing, senior author of the research published online Jan. 13 in the British journal Proceedings...
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Banning Fracking Isnt Enough: Fight to Stop Pipelines, Compressor Stations and Gas Plants
2016-01-15 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: [Editors note: Hundreds of climate activists and renewable energy advocates gathered for a State of the Climate rally and march outside of Gov. Cuomos State of the State address in Albany Wednesday. Here below are the prepared remarks from Sandra Steingrabers speech. Shortly after, from the top of a stairway in the Capitol building, fracking infrastructure opponents unscrolled a 40-foot petition, bearing 1,000 signatures, that urgently calls on the governor to oppose the storage of dangerous,...
PENETRON Boosts Moorefield Wastewater Treatment Plant's Efforts To Clean Chesapeake Bay
2016-01-13 02:28:29| pollutiononline News Articles
PENETRON technology is a key part of the new $40 million Moorefield Wastewater Treatment Plant’s innovative water treatment solution.
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Samsung creates committee to inspect plants linked to cancer
2016-01-12 09:36:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics will create an independent committee to monitor working conditions at its semiconductor facilities, writes Bloomberg. The ombudsman committee was created together with victims of leukemia and other work-related diseases, and a local civic after some court cases established that its workers developed rare cancers and other illnesses at its semiconductor facilities. The move comes after Samsung announced a KRW 100 billion (USD 83 million) fund in July to compensate victims and fund preventive measures. Samsung publicly apologised in 2015 to its ill workers and to the surviving family members it battled in South Korea's courts over a period of nine years.
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New Yorks Nuclear Power Plants Contribute Over $3 Billion to States GDP
2016-01-11 21:39:00| Transmission & Distribution World
A study by Brattle principals finds that Upstate New Yorks three nuclear energy power plants contribute approximately $3.16 billion to the states gross domestic product. read more
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