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Two energy giants forced to clean up uranium mess

April 28, 2014, www.hcn.org | “Few companies have done more to poison the West than Kerr-McGee, the energy producer that once operated 50 uranium mines on the Navajo Nation – sickening thousands of miners and residents with lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis and other illnesses related to radiation.”

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A government lawsuit forced Kerr-McGee and Anadarko to put billions into detoxing: $1 billion will clean up abandoned uranium mines around the Navajo Nation, and another $1.1 billion will go toward detoxing the Lake Mead site.
Two energy giants forced to clean up uranium in Navajo Lands.
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This Restaurant Is Serious About Garbage—It Doesn’t Produce Any

April 24, 2014, www.takepart.com | “The average restaurant tosses eight gallons of garbage every hour. At Chicago’s Sandwich Me In, it took two years to produce that much.”

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This Restaurant Is Serious About Garbage—It Doesn’t Produce Any
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Largest Cleanup in EPA History Proposed

April 14, 2014, www.enn.com | “In an historic action that will protect people’s health and the environment, and benefit riverfront communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to remove 4.3 million cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment from the lower eight miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey. The sediment in the Passaic River is severely contaminated with dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants from more than a century of industrial activity. Ninety percent of the volume of contaminated sediments in the lower Passaic are in the lower eight miles of the river.”

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Largest Cleanup in EPA History Proposed for the from the lower eight miles, Passaic River, N.J.
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Caribbean Island of Barbados To Get Waste-To-Energy Plant

March 26, 2014, www.enn.com | “One day soon the Caribbean island of Barbados will have part of its electricity needs supplied by a waste-to-energy plant.  Cahill Energy, based in Guernsey, announced the signing of an agreement with the government of Barbados on March 15 to build and operate a waste-to-energy plant.”

Caribbean Island of Barbados To Get Waste-To-Energy Plant
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Cahill Energy, based in Guernsey, announced the signing of an agreement with the government of Barbados on March 15 to build and operate a waste-to-energy plant. The company plans to invest up to $240 million in the plant which will be built in Vaucluse, St. Thomas.
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World Water Day: Young Sliammon Activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney Invokes Prayer for the Sacred

March 22, 2014, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com | “Water is the elixir of life; without it, we die within days. It is second only to air as the reason any of us are here at all. Yet ‘768 million people lack access to improved water sources, and 2.5 billion have no improved sanitation,’ according to the United Nations.  Many of those people inhabit Turtle Island.”

No Words Needed
World Water Day: Young Sliammon Activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney Invokes Prayer for the Sacred
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Video of Ta’Kaiya Blaney’s plea for the sacred on World Water Day.
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Filed under: Local Policy, National Policy, Pollution, Protests, Trash cleanups, Water

SF bans water bottles

March 11, 2014, www.sfbg.com | “San Francisco continues to lead the way in the nation’s environmental policy, with the Board of Supervisors on March 4 voting unanimously to bar the city from buying plastic water bottles and to ban distribution of plastic water bottles smaller than 21 ounces on city property starting Oct. 1. The ban excludes city marathons and other sporting events.”

“It’s official! First plastic bags, now plastic bottled water. After several quick votes by the Board of Supervisors and the mayor, San Francisco has become the world’s first major city to ban single-use bottled water on public property and …”
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In San Francisco, Plastic Bottles Going the Way of Plastic Bags

In San Francisco, Plastic Bottles Go the Way of Plastic Bags with City BanMarch 7, 2014, www.takepart.com | “Bottled water is no longer welcome in San Francisco.  The City by the Bay earlier this week scored yet another environmental first when legislators there unanimously voted to end the sale and distribution of plastic bottled water on municipal property—a move that will bring the city nearer its goal of diverting all its waste from landfill or incineration by 2020.”

“Good News for San Francisco!
In San Francisco, Plastic Bottles Going the Way of Plastic Bags
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City ban on world’s most unnecessary item goes into effect later this year.”
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W.R. Grace Pays Over $63 Million Toward Cleanup and Restoration of Hazardous Waste Sites in Communities Across the Country

February 5, 2014, yosemite.epa.gov | “Today, Columbia, Md.-based W.R. Grace & Co. under its bankruptcy plan of reorganization, paid over $63 million to the U.S. government to resolve claims for environmental cleanups at approximately 39 sites in 21 states, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.”

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If We Don’t Stop Using Poison, then We Have to Sue the Poisoners to Make them Pay for the Government to Clean Up the Mess.
W.R. Grace Corp. Forced to Pay Over $63 Million Toward Cleanup and Restoration of Hazardous Waste…
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Release Date: 02/05/2014Contact Information: Julia P. Valentine (News Media Only), valentine.julia@epa.gov, 202-564-0496, 202-564-4355
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Successfully Removes Shipwrecks that were Destroying Coral Reefs in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument; Marine Conservation Institute Helped Secure Funding for the Project

January 31, 2014, www.enn.com | “On January 16, 2014, a 16-person crew completed the removal of three sunken wrecks that plagued the coral reefs of the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument for over a decade. Nearly one million pounds of iron and other material were removed from the wreckage sites at Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuges inside the Marine National Monument in a 79-day operation.

The mess is gradually being cleaned up, step by step.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Successfully Removes Shipwrecks that were Destroying Coral…
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Waste Facility to Triple the Amount of Trash Recycled

January 15, 2014, www.enn.com | “A new plant in Glendale, Arizona promises to triple the amount of trash the city recycles each year when it begins operations in April. The facility, which is being built by Chicago-based company, Vieste, will be located on 6 acres of Glendale’s landfill, just a few miles west of the University of Phoenix stadium.”

Step-by-step, small local actions gradually add up to a major change.
Glendale, Arizona: Waste Facility to Triple the Amount of Trash Recycled
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