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		<title>EPA Increases Transparency on Chemical Risk Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a new policy to increase the public’s access to information on chemicals. Starting today, EPA has announced its intention to reject a certain type of confidentiality claim, known as Confidential Business Information (CBI), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;BASIC&#8217; Meeting expected to outline Climate Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment Ministers from the &#8216;BASIC&#8217; group of the world&#8217;s main emerging economies &#8211; Brazil, China, India and South Africa &#8211; meet in New Delhi, India, on Sunday 24 January to discuss their joint strategy for the UN climate negotiations. Their session will be the first multilateral meeting following the failure of last month&#8217;s climate summit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Strengthens Smog Standard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog. Smog, also known as ground-level ozone, is linked to a number of serious health problems, ranging from aggravation of asthma to increased risk of premature death in people with heart or lung disease. Ozone can even harm healthy people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peaceful Greenpeace climate protesters released after 20 days of imprisonment without trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Danish police today released from custody four Greenpeace climate protesters who have endured 20 days of pre-trial detention in Copenhagen prison following a harmless peaceful protest staged on the evening of 17 December. Their release comes a day in advance of their detention being reviewed by a Danish judge. The four activists still face trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Releases First-Ever Baseline Study of U.S. Lakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its most comprehensive study of the nation’s lakes to date. The draft study, which rated the condition of 56 percent of the lakes in the United States as good and the remainder as fair or poor, marked the first time EPA and its partners used a nationally consistent approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messages to 2109 &#8211; a time capsule that talks back to you</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Imagine writing a letter to the future. And getting a reply.

Love Letters to the Future is part puzzle, part story, part activism. It&#8217;s about climate change and the impacts it will have on our future. It&#8217;s a multi-platform experience &#8211; an alternate reality game &#8211; created by Emmy Award winning Xenophile Media in cooperation with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready for RecycleMania 2010?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Last year 4.7 million students and 1.1 million faculty and staff from 510 participating campuses collectively recycled or composted just over 69.4 million pounds of waste during the 10-week RecycleMania competition.
This “friendly” competition pits colleges and universities in a contest with cross town rivals and schools across the nation to see who can reduce, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Issues Consumer Alert: Unscrupulous Vendors Market Unapproved Flu Disinfectant Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning consumers to beware of unscrupulous vendors who may market ineffective and unregistered products or services that claim to disinfect surfaces or entire rooms against the H1N1 influenza virus. In the current flu-conscious climate, heightened anxiety about the spread of the H1N1 virus has bred false claims in the [...]]]></description>
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