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Think of all the jobs we’d create here in California if everyone were allowed to have their own nuclear bomb. My neighbor Phil might even think twice before blowing all his leaves over on my yard if he suspected I had the power to send him and his leaf blower to another dimension. Everyone would [...]
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The Lagos State government is ramping up enforcement against breach of environmental laws and toughening prosecution of offenders. Tunji Bello, the commissioner for the environment in Lagos State in southwest Nigeria, told the media at a recent ministerial news conference in Lagos, that emphasis will now be on non-custodian sentencing of offenders by mobile courts [...]
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The Green Deal is a new UK government led scheme which aims to make it easier for British homeowners to make their homes more energy efficient. The deal allows homeowners to borrow up to £10,000 to pay for energy saving devices such as double glazing. Repayments are added to utility bills and repayment plans can [...]
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On Friday, May 4th, Vermont became the first state in the United States to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Fracking is an extraction technique that allows for the efficient collection of natural gas from shale rock, building upon traditional drilling techniques in order to increase output. After vertically drilling into deep-earth layers of shale, extractors [...]
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Federal legislation and several state-level bills are being considered to get a handle on the country’s out-of-control exotic pet ownership after an unstable owner unleashes more than 50 deadly wild animals to short-lived freedom and death in his town. Ah, the U.S. Constitution – that infallible document written hundreds of years ago exclusively by rich [...]
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China has a poo problem and fortunately, there’s an environmentally friendly solution in sight. The country, which loves to consume pig meat, generates close to 1.5 million tons of pig feces each year. Sound crazy? Consider this: China has 700 million pigs that produce two-thirds of their annual meat. Currently of the 1.5 million tons [...]
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Looks like PETA was right when it sued the California Milk Board for its advertising campaign asserting that “Happy cows come from California.” The USDA has now confirmed that mad cows come from California, well, a mad cow. Authorities conducting random testing for mad cow disease at a Central California rendering plant came across the [...]
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The White House’s Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) recently released The National Bioeconomy Blueprint–a plan laying out the measures the government intends on taking to apply breakthrough biological research and addressing the nation’s challenges in health, food, energy and the environment. In the government press release, President Obama’s science and technology advisor and [...]
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Ever since the introduction of the CERT (Carbon Emissions Reduction Target) which came into effect in the UK in April of 2008, the UK Government has been working towards a target of a more sustainable Britain. The aim of CERT is to reduce CO2 emissions, which are one of the main causes of climate change. [...]
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Mexico’s Climate and Energy Law Canada and the US should take a closer look at their southern sister nation’s environmental protocols. Last week, Mexico’s senate approved a groundbreaking climate and energy law, becoming the second country in the world to approve strict guidelines for environmental sustainability. Initially passing Mexico’s lower house with a 128-for [...]
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