Urgent Action for CA's Green Chemistry Standards

by Colleen Fernald

Hello everyone,

All personal care, and cleaning products, etc. end up in our bodies, down the drain, in the air, and in the soil. What's on the label of the products you purchase? Can you trust them to be safe for all they touch?

Please see this important story from the San Fransisco Chronicle today.

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A sad state of affairs.

by icebergslim

BP is the gift that will continue to screw the Gulf Coast region by poisoning them while continuing to cover up the oil spill.

The EPA is the gift that continues to look LAME, against the power house foreign company called BP.

The government continues to be quasi in charge, while attempting to look NOT IN CHARGE.

Put these three together the gifts that keep screwing the Gulf Coast Region.

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What's next for coal ash?

by Sue Sturgis

Disaster has pushed Washington to call for new standards for handling waste from coal-fired power plants. It's invited citizens to weigh in, but will their voices carry above lobbyists fighting tough regulations?

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Power politics: Utilities vs. coal ash regulation

by Sue Sturgis

After years of inaction, federal officials are mulling new regulations to confront the growing problem of coal ash. But energy companies have fought off regulation before, and they're fighting the new rules every step of the way.

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Big as Both Wars combined !

by Vetwife

This man made disaster is as big IMO as both wars combined and should absolutely be nationalized. We cannot let a corporation run a war on nature. Iraq and Afghanistan is devistating lives to be sure. People are dying.  People will be dying from this as well.  Oxygen comes from the seas. This thing is bigger that people believe.  

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Special investigation: Coal's dirty secret

by Sue Sturgis

Coal ash is one of the country's biggest waste streams and is full of toxic substances, yet it remains virtually unregulated. Can Washington overcome the fierce opposition of energy interests to protect communities and the environment?

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