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Sunita Narain heads India's Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-governmental, public interest research and advocacy organization set up for research, lobbying and communicating on issues of sustainable and equitable development. The centre's efforts include spreading awareness, research and advocacy, education and training, building a knowledge base, and pollution monitoring.

These must begin with research. Water usage must be measured "down to the last drop." Enterprise-wide and facility-based water consumption must be accurately gauged using reports, meters and software analysis.

For many consumers energy deregulation was a long time coming. As far back as 1978, Congress laid the initial groundwork in an attempt to open power markets to independent producers of electricity. It wasn't until 1996 that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission implemented specific orders to usher in a period of deregulation. This allowed independent States to restructure their power industries so that consumers could opt for direct access to generated power.

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Projects of ecological sea transportation. Not much has changed since 2008.

About the corn industry, very revealing.

A number of domestic and international considerations have led many political observers to conclude that the Unites States will take legislative action during the remainder of 2009, or in 2010, to address climate change. The goal of these legislative efforts is to achieve a gradual but significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their earlier levels by the middle of the century. Action in this area would be a watershed regulatory and tax development and would affect all types of businesses in many aspects of their operations.

Plastic bags account for 50 percent of the plastic trash in Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia River. In order to decrease the amount of plastic bags in the Anacostia, the D.C. Council proposed legislation that would put a five cents tax on disposable shopping bags. Eleven council members co-introduced it, and according to a Washington Post article, that almost guarantees it will become law.