1. Clear differences between organic and non-organic food, study finds
2. Appeals court upholds EPA’s mountaintop removal crackdown
3. Why were this company’s computers attacked millions of times this year? Algae.
4. China girds for ‘war on pollution’
Drive for growth takes precedence over aim of cleaner air, water and soil
5. Dam Projects Ignite a Legal Battle Over Mekong River’s Future
Opponents see threats to fish spawning, food supply, and a way of life in Southeast Asia.
6. Ministers admit missing air pollution targets as health chiefs warn of deaths
7. Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk
8. Lopsided lobbying on Keystone Pipeline
9. Huntington Lake summer fun drying up in California drought
10. El Niño Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
11. Meramec coal power plant, once celebrated, draws cheers with closure announcement
12. Green groups protest transatlantic trade deal
Green activists are protesting a transatlantic trade deal they say could harm
the environment
13. Crumbling Roads in Oil Fields Slow U.S. Energy Boom
The road to U.S. energy security is often unpaved.
14. Coal-reliant Pa. faces election showdown over EPA, natural gas and carbon trading
15. EPA: ‘I’m going to get this right,’ McCarthy says of muddled water rule
16. Italian risotto rice under threat from cheap Asian imports
Rice paddy fields of Italy’s northern plains immortalised in 1949 film “Riso amaro”
(Bitter Rice) suffering from cheap imports from Asia
17. Milwaukee: Basements of abandoned homes would become cisterns, according to plan
18. ‘No drill, no spill’: Protestors in Skaneateles urge Cuomo to enact statewide fracking ban
19. CDC closes anthrax and flu labs after accidents. After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, federal health officials announced Friday that they had temporarily closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and halted shipments of all infectious agents from the agency’s highest-security labs. New York Times
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