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5121. May 28, 2012 | Bangor Daily News (BDN Maine)
DEP: 4,000 to 6,000 gallons of paper chemical spilled in Bucksport derailment, USA
BUCKSPORT, Maine — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is estimating that 4,000 to 6,000 gallons of a chemical used to make coated paper spilled into the Penobscot River when several train tanker cars derailed in Bucksport on Friday...

5122. May 28, 2012 | Deccan Herald
SC concerned over Bhopal toxic wastes, India
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its concern over the indifferent attitude shown by the Centre and others in disposing of the toxic wastes lying at Bhopal’s defunct Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) plant since 1984...

5123. May 27, 2012 | The Guardian
Anti-GM protesters kept from tearing up wheat crop by police, UK
Police use trespass order and mounted officers to halt hundreds of activists at entrance to land owned by Rothamsted Research...

5124. May 27, 2012 | The Charleston Gazette
Meth lab growth hurting hotels, motels, USA
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Authorities say methamphetamine creation inside hotel rooms is increasing as crews work to test and clean the latest contamination closure in Kanawha County...

5125. May 27, 2012 | ksl.com
Contaminated areas to get cleaned up with help of grants, USA
SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly $1.6 million in grants is funneling into Utah to help a trio of entities assess potential environmental problems or start cleanup of known sites already compromised by contaminants...

5126. May 27, 2012 | Tampa Bay Times
Reject the dirty politics of coal ash for clean water, USA
Florida's drinking waters are slowly being poisoned by a silent toxic menace. If certain members of Congress have their way, federal regulators will never be able to do anything about it...

5127. May 25, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Eastern Europe and Central Asia aim for cleaner and productive future, Russia
25 May 2012, Moscow, the Russian Federation - On the final run up before world leaders gather in Brazil for the "Rio + 20" U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, Moscow takes leader...

5128. May 25, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
New Members Join the UN-wide Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Switzerland
Geneva, 22 May 2012 - An initiative launched in 2011 to enhance the sharing of information on international environmental agreements has expanded its platform to include new members...

5129. May 25, 2012 | The Daily Star
Massive roadway pollution leads to early death, Lebanon
BEIRUT: The country’s air pollution is making our lives shorter, according to findings presented by an environmental research team at the American University of Beirut Thursday...

5130. May 25, 2012 | The Associated Press (AP)
India May Send Chemical Waste To Germany, India
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Indian government ministers are considering a plan to have a German company dispose of toxic waste dumped from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, where a chemical gas leak killed thousands in 1984, officials said Friday...

5131. May 24, 2012 | Scoop News
Auckland Council Creates Pollution Risk - NZ First, New Zealand
New Zealand First has raised serious concerns about the Auckland Council cancelling funding for hazardous material collection days to save $3.5 million over 10 years...

5132. May 23, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UN Launches Interactive Website to Support South-South Co-Operation, USA/Kenya
New York / Nairobi, 23 May 2012 - What do a biomass project at a Kenyan sugar factory, sustainable mining in Sierra Leone and orang-utan conservation in the rainforests of Borneo have in common?...

5133. May 23, 2012 | Xinhua
Beijing to reduce construction site pollution, China
BEIJING - Construction companies in Beijing will need to keep a close eye on emissions of dust and other forms of pollution at their existing construction sites if they want to bid on new projects, a city government official said Tuesday...

5134. May 23, 2012 | UPI
Chemical dip creates 'killer silk', USA
WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- A simple chemical treatment can turn ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria, including anthrax, a U.S. chemical journal reports...

5135. May 23, 2012 | Innovation Report
Study shows availability of hydrogen controls chemical structure of graphene oxide, innovations-report.de
A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical systems, sensing, composites, optics, catalysis and energy storage...

5136. May 22, 2012 | The Standard
Banned chemical turns up in fresh meat again, UK
Meat sellers continue to spike their stocks of fresh beef and pork with sulfur dioxide to make them look fresher, the Centre for Food Safety warns...

5137. May 22, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
All G8 Countries Back Action on Black Carbon, Methane and Other Short Lived Climate Pollutants, EU
22 May 2012 - All Members of the G8, during a meeting at Camp David in the United States, have thrown their collective support behind a new international effort to phase-down so-called short lived climate pollutants...

5138. May 22, 2012 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UN Secretary General's Message on International Day for Biological Diversity, UNEP
Oceans cover almost three-quarters of the surface area of the globe. They are home to the largest animal known to have lived on the planet - the blue whale - as well as billions upon billions of the tiniest of microorganisms...

5139. May 22, 2012 | ENN
High Concentrations of Toxic Mercury in the Arctic from Circumpolar Rivers, Arctic Ocean
Environmental scientists have known that high levels of the toxic element, mercury, have been accumulating in the Arctic Ocean for some time...

5140. May 21, 2012 | Organic Connections
Pollution Is Leading to Atmospheric Warming, Larger Clouds and Bigger Storms, USA
Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear...