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Onondaga Nation sues for land rights in New York state |
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31 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Je Syracuse Onondaga Nation sues for land rights in New York state The Onondaga Nation earlier this month filed a lawsuit claiming ownership of some 3,100 square miles of New York state, including Onondaga Lake in northwest Syracuse -- a large body of water to which the community claims to have ancestral connection. That lake also happens to be one of the most polluted in the country; once a source of trout and ... |
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| Topics: lakes, New York, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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The Glass Is Half Full -- Just Don't Drink From It
Most U.S. Lakes and Waterways Contaminated with Mercury, EPA Says |
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25 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Glass Is Half Full -- Just Don't Drink From It Most U.S. Lakes and Waterways Contaminated with Mercury, EPA Says U.S. EPA head honcho Mike Leavitt struggled yesterday to put a positive spin on the agency's annual report on fish advisories, despite the grim news that virtually every body of freshwater in the country may be contaminated with mercury, which poses health risks to fetuses and children. Every state except Alaska a ... |
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| Topics: lakes, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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When You Dish Upon a Star
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07 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| When You Dish Upon a Star Minnesota would become the first state in the U.S. to effectively ban phosphorus in automatic-dishwashing detergent if a bill working its way through the state legislature gets the eventual thumbs-up. Phosphorus, which helps to remove those oh-so-unsightly spots from glasses and dishware, ultimately g ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, lakes, Minnesota, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops
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30 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops Lakes and streams in New England have been slow to recover from the ill effects of acid rain, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The regional reduction in acid rain lagged 10 percent behind the national rate of 40 percent in the 1990s; more worrisome, the number of "acidic systems" in ... |
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| Topics: lakes, land degradation, Midwest, New England, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Taking Liberties?
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07 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Taking Liberties? The U.S. Supreme Court will begin today to consider a lawsuit over private property development in Lake Tahoe that has had lot owners and land-use planners squared off for more than two decades. At issue is a 1981 moratorium on the development of certain lots where runoff from rain and snowmelt would ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, lakes, Nevada, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Mulholland Drive, Bye
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19 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Mulholland Drive, Bye Almost 90 years too late, Los Angeles is finally making partial amends for one of the most infamous acts of water theft in history: the diversion of the Owens River to supply water to the then-infant city. The diversion caused the 110-square-mile Owens Lake to dry up, leading to dramatic and sometimes deadly dust storms and some of the worst air quality in the n ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, lakes, pollution and waste, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Lake It or Not
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12 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Lake It or Not Overuse and pollution of the world's lakes threaten nearly 1 billion people who depend on lake water for fishing, irrigation, transportation, tourism, sewage, and drinking water, global experts said during an international conference on lake management being held this week in Japan. More than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs are alr ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Aral Sea, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, lakes, North America, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Forty
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Josh Sevin |
12 Jan 2000 |
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| percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ... |
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| Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics) |
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