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I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly
Northern Ireland and Japan plagued by jellyfish |
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27 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:34 AM on 27 Nov 2007 We're sure you have plenty of fodder for eco-nightmares, but let us add another: killer jellyfish. Last week, a horde of jellies covering an area of 10 square miles (!) attacked Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing some 100,000 fish. The mauve stinger jellyfish were well north of their favored Mediterranean habitat, thanks to warmer-than-normal water. Another type, ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, insanity, Ireland, Japan, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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What Juneau About That?
Alaska oil-tax bribery scandal widens, may include members of Congress |
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12 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:42 PM on 12 Nov 2007 For the last year or so, ugly truths about Alaskan politics have been oozing into the limelight as state and federal officials unravel a scandal involving cash bribes, an oil tax, bowling scores, and sleeping pills. Yes, you heard us right: an oil tax! The founder of an oil-field services company pled guilty this spring to bribery and conspiracy; he's drug several stat ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, news, politics, state politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics) |
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Fume and Far Between
FEMA prohibits employees from entering toxic trailers |
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09 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 11:54 AM on 09 Nov 2007 Concerned about formaldehyde fumes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has prohibited its employees from entering thousands of stored trailers. And the hurricane victims living in some 50,000 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi? Well, FEMA hasn't gotten around to seeing if those trailers are toxic yet -- last week, the agency postponed plans to begin testing -- but eh, they'll be f ... |
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| Topics: health, insanity, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Oh, Sproat It All
Yucca Mountain may be doubled in size, need more funding |
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05 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 12:04 PM on 05 Oct 2007 In a move sure to endear Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository to fiercely opposed Nevadans, the Department of Energy has proposed doubling its size. Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) concisely sums up the reaction of the sane: "Doubling the size of Yucca Mountain will only double the danger. This is not a bad dream; it's a nightmare." In addition, the DOE's Edward F. S ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, energy, insanity, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics) |
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Vermiculite Reading
EPA refuses to warn homeowners about asbestos exposure from insulation |
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05 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:19 AM on 05 Oct 2007 If you happen to be reading through the U.S. EPA website -- which you no doubt do every day -- you might come across a warning that some 35 million homes nationwide contain insulation processed with asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from infamous Libby, Mont. If you ask the agency about it, they'd be happy to send you a pamphlet -- but they're sure not going to come right ... |
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| Topics: Government Accountability Office, green living, health, insanity, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Have You Herd?
China relocates Tibetan herders in interest of environment |
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03 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 4:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Ugh: China is ordering 100,000 ethnic Tibetans to give up their traditional nomadic habits and settle in towns because their way of life is threatening the environment, state press reported Tuesday. Glaciers in the province where the herders live are an initial source for both the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers; somehow we imagine that the impact on the rivers from overgrazing and erosion pales ... |
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| Topics: China, insanity, news, Tibet, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Now That's What We Call Hospitality
Vietnam hospital waste turned into plastic utensils |
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30 Aug 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 5:06 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Recycling gone bad: Environmental officers in Vietnam have found that nearly 300 tonnes of medical waste from a Hanoi hospital was illegally processed into household plastic utensils, state media said Wednesday. A staff member at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital sold the used plastic items -- including IV transmission lines and syringes, some still contaminated with blood -- s ... |
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| Topics: insanity, news, recycling, Vietnam (all these topics) |
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Dust to dumb
Prius easily beats Hummer in lifecycle energy use; 'Dust to Dust' report has no basis in fact |
Joseph Romm |
27 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, ecological footprint, electric vehicles, energy, insanity, Prius (all these topics) |
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Spaghetti Midwestern
Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges |
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01 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Spaghetti Midwestern Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges Good old-fashioned fury continues to build over Indiana's decision to grant oil giant BP permission to increase discharges of ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan. A group of eight shoreline mayors has formed a task force to fight the plan. Tens of thousands of residents have signed petiti ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, Chicago, grassroots activism, insanity, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Madness Takes Its Toll
Siberia attack leaves one anti-nuclear protester dead, others injured |
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23 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Madness Takes Its Toll Siberia attack leaves one anti-nuclear protester dead, others injured A pre-dawn attack on an anti-nuclear protest camp in Siberia this weekend left one person dead and several others seriously injured. Twenty suspects have been detained for the crime, in which attackers wearing dark clothes and masks brandished metal pipes, chanted nationalist slogans, attempted to set te ... |
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| Topics: energy, grassroots activism, insanity, news, nuclear power (all these topics) |
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Beyond Pathetic
BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake Michigan |
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17 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Beyond Pathetic BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake Michigan The ugly (and imaginary) conflict between environment and economy has reared its head in Indiana, where state and federal regulators granted exemptions that will allow oil giant BP to discharge more waste from a refinery straight into Lake Michigan. You may recall that BP is moving "Beyond Petroleum." Bu ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, business, Indiana, insanity, news, oil, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Barrier Methods
Galveston, Texas, expected to approve history-defying development plans |
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26 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Barrier Methods Galveston, Texas, expected to approve history-defying development plans The city of Galveston perches precariously on a Texas barrier island; some 8,000 people were killed there by a hurricane in 1900. But hindsight shmindsight! Officials are set to OK construction of over 1,000 acres of hotels and homes, the largest development in city history. Geologists hired to study the issue have s ... |
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| Topics: insanity, news, placemaking, severe weather, Texas (all these topics) |
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Not to Mention It's Wildly Inhumane
Critics say U.S.-Mexico border fence could threaten wildlife, cause flooding |
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25 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Not to Mention It's Wildly Inhumane Critics say U.S.-Mexico border fence could threaten wildlife, cause flooding The U.S. government is moving forward with plans to build 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border, but opposition is swelling faster than the Rio Grande after a rainstorm. This week, the International Boundary and Water Commission said the fence could not only cause flooding but could, in effec ... |
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| Topics: insanity, Mexico, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Speaking of fake 'butter' and industrial corn ...
Orville Redenbacher must be stopped |
Tom Philpott |
11 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: food, green living, health, insanity (all these topics) |
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Speaking of CFLs ...
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David Roberts |
01 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, green products, insanity, lying liars (all these topics) |
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The Rocky chronicles
SLC mayor takes on O'Reilly |
Kate Sheppard |
27 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: green living, insanity, politics, TV, Utah (all these topics) |
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Conspiracy uncovered!
Letter to the editor from Arkansas |
Andrew Dessler |
24 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, insanity, politics (all these topics) |
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Sensenbrenner: protecting the children from <del
Oy |
David Roberts |
19 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, environmental movement, insanity, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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Latter-Day Paints
EPA says racism isn't a factor in Ford Superfund saga |
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13 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Latter-Day Paints EPA says racism isn't a factor in Ford Superfund saga A strange environmental-justice saga is unfolding in New Jersey, pitting Ford Motor Co. against a community of Ramapough Indians and their allies. Decades ago, Ford dumped thousands of tons of toxic paint sludge at a former mining area. The dump was declared a Superfund site, reportedly cleaned up, and del ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, insanity, New Jersey, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The second time as farce
Stern in Berkeley |
Tom Athanasiou |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: insanity, politics (all these topics) |
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Funny ha-ha and funny peculiar/terrifying
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Yolanda Crous |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: funnies, green living, insanity, TV (all these topics) |
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It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's ...
Wrestlemania for the future of the planet |
Adam Browning |
27 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, insanity, James Inhofe (all these topics) |
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Scary movies
Children, anxiety, and global warming |
biodiversivist |
06 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, insanity, movies, parenting (all these topics) |
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Capitalism v. environmentalism: a poll
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Kit Stolz |
17 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, insanity, politics (all these topics) |
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Deactivated cylinders
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biodiversivist |
08 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, education, electric vehicles, hybrids, insanity, messaging, Prius (all these topics) |
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