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Climate Change And The Food We Eat

By | Published: December 27, 2009
Environmental Protection Agency — Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes, such as droughts, floods and severe storms. The forces that shape our climate are also critical to farm productivity. Human activity has already changed atmospheric characteristics such as temperature, rainfall, levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and ground level ozone. The scientific [...]
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Pharmaceutical Residues In The Nation’s Drinking Water

By | Published: December 23, 2009
The executive branch of the U.S. government has changed the nation’s position on drugs that are finding their way into drinking water. For quite some time, their have been scientists and environmental groups calling for tougher regulations on the release of pharmaceuticals into the waste water system. They would contend that the drug residues were [...]
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Is Natural Gas The Answer?

By | Published: December 22, 2009
There has been a growing debate over natural gas and the environment. President Barack Obama has said we must move away from natural gas, oil and coal. Instead, he pushes for alternative sources, such as, solar, wind and biofuels. On the other hand, power utilities have seen the writing on the wall on capping carbon [...]
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