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Environmental Groups Ask U.N. To Take Stand Against Appalachian Coal Mining
A coalition of environmental groups called on the United Nations Tuesday to take a stand against ecologically destructive coal mining practices in the Appalachians region of the U.S., saying that the federal and local governments were not paying attention. >> Read the Full Article
U.N. Raises Possible Biofuel Problems
Biofuels like ethanol can help reduce global warming and create jobs for the rural poor, but the benefits may be offset by serious environmental problems and increased food prices for the hungry, the United Nations concluded Tuesday in its first major report on bioenergy. >> Read the Full Article
Obama Says U.S. Auto Industry Must Look to Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday faulted U.S. automakers for failing to do what foreign manufacturers have accomplished in producing fuel-efficient vehicles. >> Read the Full Article
Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules
Massachusetts sued the federal government Monday, accusing energy regulators of failing to tighten standards that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eliminate the need for major new power plants. >> Read the Full Article
Republicans Criticize Pelosi over Project in Water Development Bill
Republicans are accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of including a provision in a water redevelopment bill that could benefit property her husband owns in San Francisco. >> Read the Full Article
Report Says Malaysia Seeks To Rehabilitate Borneo Rain Forests Marred by Logging
Malaysian authorities need 200 million ringgit (US$58 million; euro42 million) to replant trees and restore heavily logged forests that are home to thousands of orangutans on Borneo island, a news report said Sunday. >> Read the Full Article
Wind Farms Useful but May Threaten Birds
Wind farms could generate up to 7 percent of U.S. electricity in 15 years, but scientists want more study of the threat the spinning blades pose to birds and bats. >> Read the Full Article
Jeans Firms Pollute Mexican City with Blue Dye
Jeans factories have given jobs to thousands in the city of Tehuacan, the heartland of Mexico's denim industry, but they are pumping blue chemicals into rivers used to irrigate corn fields downstream. >> Read the Full Article
Ethanol Bill Heads to Full Senate, Prompts Debate over Coal as Motor Fuel
Senators moved ahead Wednesday on legislation to replace one-quarter of the nation's gasoline with ethanol and set a goal of cutting gasoline consumption nearly in half by 2030. >> Read the Full Article
Tribes, Fishermen Sue PacifiCorp over Klamath Dams
Environmentalists, commercial fishermen and Native American tribes sued Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary PacifiCorp in San Francisco Wednesday, claiming that two of its dams on the Klamath River are killing salmon and causing human health hazards. >> Read the Full Article