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EPA Launching Major Investigation Into BPA - 0 views

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    The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will investigate the impact of the chemical Bisphenol-A on the U.S. water supply and other parts of the environment. Federal regulators have been ramping up their scrutiny of the controversial plastic-hardener at the behest of scientists and activists who say it can interfere with infant growth and development.
Lindsay Gordon

National Wildlife Federation's Photo Contest Winners (thedailygreen.com) - 0 views

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    Highlights from the National Wildlife Federation Magazine Photo Contest in 2009, including tigers, fish, birds, rabbits and bugs.
Patrick Thornton

Environmentalists and locals win fight against coal plant in Borneo - 0 views

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    The State and Federal government announced today that they would "pursue other alternative sources of energy, namely gas, to meet Sabah's power supply needs." Proposed for an undeveloped beach on the north-eastern coast of Borneo, the coal plant, according to critics, would have threatened the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine ecosystems, and Tabin Wildlife Reserve, home to Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinos and Bornean orangutans. Local fishermen feared that discharges from the plant would have imperiled their livelihood.
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