 | Green Purchases Can Be Motivated by Desire for Higher Status
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - People will forgo luxury for green products when they shop in public, buying green because they want to be seen as caring...
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 | Obama Administration Divided on Public Right-to-Know About Chemicals
WASHINGTON, DC , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - For the first time, the U.S. EPA is providing web access, free of charge, to the Toxic Substances Control Act Chemical Substance...
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 | Poll: More Americans Optimistic About Environment Under Obama
PRINCETON, New Jersey , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - Since President Barack Obama took office, Americans have grown more satisfied with the overall quality of the environment in the United...
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 | U.S.-Chinese Consortium Chooses Nevada for Wind Turbine Factory
LAS VEGAS, Nevada , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - A consortium of U.S. and Chinese companies has announced plans to build a factory in the Las Vegas area for manufacturing...
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 | Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Urges National Renewable Energy Standard
WASHINGTON, DC , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - For the first time, a group of state governors is jointly requesting that Congress and the President adopt a national renewable energy...
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 | Feds, NRG Energy Plan Texas-Sized Carbon Capture and Storage Project
WASHINGTON, DC , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Energy Department and NRG Energy will each contribute up to $154 million to fund a new project to capture and...
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 | UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - Two months after the ruinous January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations' $1.44 billion revised humanitarian appeal for the country is...
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 | Green Chemistry Breakthrough in Plastics Recycling
SAN JOSE, California , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - Scientists at IBM and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have developed a new method of making plastics that will permit...
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 | World's Top Scientists to Scrutinize Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
NEW YORK, New York , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - A multinational organization of the world's science academies will conduct an independent review of processes and procedures used by the...
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 | Extinction Looms for Loggerhead Sea Turtles, New Rule Offers Hope
WASHINGTON, DC , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - Loggerhead sea turtles have been classed as threatened on the U.S. Endangered Species List for more than 30 years, but today two...
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