EPA Moves to Ease Air Rules for Parks

"The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators...

Gay rights advocates praise Michigan lawmakers for broadening hate crime prot...

" by Ted Roelofs | The Grand Rapids Press Friday November 14, 2008, 7:15 PM Gay rights advocates are praising a measure to broaden protection for victims of hate crimes as a long-overdue expansion of civil rights. A...

Warning: Arsenic in our forests

We have seen it before, one environmental solution leads to another problem. A chemical used in British Columbia to try and end the pine-beetles wrath has been discontinued and now testing for arsenic (a known cancer...

Baby P death sparks national child protection review in UK

The controversial case of baby P, a child who was brutally killed by its mother even after several visits by the British social services department, has scandalized Britain. Now a nationwide review has been launched to find problems with the department."A nationwide review of...

Pakistani journalists protest killing of colleague

Condemning the killing of their colleague by the security forces in Swat, journalists staged protest demonstrations in Peshawar and other parts of Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Monday,...

£3m pledged to tackle UK knife crime

The British government has pledged 3 million pounds toward attacking knife crime in the country, particularly in the capital, after yet another gang-related stabbing death."An extra £3m to help keep young people...

82 children dead in Haitian school collapse

In a tragic incident of school buiding collapse in capital of Haiti, more than fifty children died, and almost 120 injured.Rescue operation is still on, the relatives of children are searching the body of their near...

Somalia's Shores Safe For Pirates..For Now

www.examiner.com/SeattleNAIROBI, Kenya (Map, News) - U.S. warships watched a hijacked vessel laden with tanks while other gunboats patrolled the dangerous waters off Somalia, but pirates still seized another...

RP scientist named ‘hero of environment’

" ILOILO CITY - “It’s not for me. It’s for the mangroves.” As always, Jurgenne Primavera thought about her advocacy first before her achievements. The retired Iloilo-based scientist has been featured by...

Icesave, money back from closed Iceland Internetbank ?

  Icesave Internet taxfree bank a 419-scam ? The Icesave Internet bank takes no responsability, just linking to UK treasury. A new way of global money scam, could come out of Nigeria 419-scam. Today one trillion...

Houston classified as having a severe smog problem

Houston has gone from being classified as having a “moderate” smog problem to a “severe” one.   The smog is so bad they skipped over the level of “serious” and went straight to...

Inflation will push precious metal prices much higher « Peter J. Cooper’s ...

" Once this obvious truth becomes generally accepted then we can expect a sudden shift by retail investors into gold and silver for protection against inflation. Both are very small markets by comparison to global equities, real estate or bonds - particularly silver, so the...

Five Alternative Bailout Plans

Brief points on 5 different plans proposed to deal with the financial market, to be compared with the $700 billion pig being pushed on the taxpayers by Paulson, Cox, Bush and Bernanke that some Dems and Reps in Congress have been trying to put lipstick on."The Bush...

Cell phones can affect sperm quality, researcher says

Story Highlights -Cleveland Clinic: Phones left on talk mode in pockets can hurt quality of spermSemen samples from 32 men were used in the study published ThursdayResearchers found increase in oxidative stress in sperm exposed to cells"Overall, researchers found an increase...

Lehman Bros., Merrill-Lynch and More Financial Round-Up

A volatile mix of bankruptcy notices and buyouts from some of the most well-established investment banks and insurance companies in the world this morning led to widespread market crashes across the globe....

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