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  • July 2008

    • 'Predatory' Funeral Industry Comes Under Fire

      Newsweek  |  Jul 5, 08 6:21 PM CDT

      'Predatory' Funeral Industry Comes Under Fire

      (Newser) - The funeral industry preys on bereft customers, artificially raising prices and taking custody of bodies it has no right to handle, argues a watchdog group. The Funeral Consumers Alliance aims to push fair and environmentally friendly death-care practices, Newsweek reports. “Funeral corporations use predatory sales tactics and aggressive marketing to get people to spend on services they don't need,” says the group’s director. More »

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      environment  • death  • funeral  • cremation  • watchdog  • burial  • funeral home

    • Orangutans In Trouble as Forests Shrink

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jul 5, 08 5:46 PM CDT

      Orangutans In Trouble as Forests Shrink

      (Newser) - Illegal loggers and palm oil plantations may make the orangutan the first great ape to become extinct, scientists warn. In Indonesia, a mere 6,600 of the apes remain, while on Malaysia’s Borneo Island, the population has fallen 10% to 49,600, the Telegraph reports. More »

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      environment  • endangered species  • biofuel  • Indonesia  • Malaysia  • apes  • orangutans  • palm oil

    • Uno: Cooler Than Segway

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 1, 08 3:12 PM CDT

      Uno: Cooler Than Segway

      (Newser) - Looking like a tricked out motorbike, the Uno is electric personal transportation with style, the Chicago Tribune reports. Designed by 19-year-old inventor Ben Gulak, the device employs no throttle or brake, relying on its rider's leanings to guide it, and is so intuitive an 8-year-old picked it up instantly at a recent vehicle expo. More »

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      environment  • pollution  • electricity  • electric cars  • motorcycle  • transport  • environmental impact

  • June 2008

    • Polluting Pentagon Rebuffs EPA Orders

      Washington Post  |  Jun 30, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Polluting Pentagon Rebuffs EPA Orders

      (Newser) - The Pentagon is holding out on an Environmental Protection Agency order to clean up pollutants from three military bases where chemicals have become an "imminent and substantial" threat to the public health and environment, the Washington Post reports. The Defense Department also won’t sign contracts to clean up 12 other military sites listed among the most polluted areas in the US. Instead, it has sought federal backing to deny the EPA’s power to issue such orders. More »

    • Five Problems With Environmental Reporting

      Columbia Journalism Review  |  Jun 29, 08 5:15 AM CDT

      Five Problems With Environmental Reporting

      (Newser) - If you’re flummoxed by ever-shifting information on climate change and the environment, just think what the folks who report it must be going through. Deadline pressures and conflicting scientific papers have reporters struggling to provide editors with sellable stories, the Columbia Journalism Review reports, and the results don’t always accurately represent the issue. CJR nails five big issues with environmental journalism: More »

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      global warming  • environment  • journalism  • reporter  • media criticism  • Columbia University  • Wired

    • Fuel Crisis a Boon for Rickshaw Business

      Washington Post  |  Jun 28, 08 5:32 PM CDT

      Fuel Crisis a Boon for Rickshaw Business

      (Newser) - New Delhi had fallen out of love with rickshaws. Here, as in many modernizing Asian capitals, the bicycle-drawn cabs are seen as embarrassing, street-clogging third-world throwbacks. They’ve even been banned from the city’s older, walled section—but with gas at $7 a gallon, rickshaw peddlers are touting their services once again. “We don’t even pollute," one cyclist said. "We should be allowed to survive.” More »

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      environment  • India  • South Asia  • Energy crisis

    • Britons: New Trash Laws Are Rubbish

      New York Times  |  Jun 27, 08 4:32 AM CDT

      Britons: New Trash Laws Are Rubbish

      (Newser) - In the midst of a garbage overload, the UK is cracking down on trash with strict new rules, sparking a backlash among Britons, the New York Times reports. Many areas now pick up trash only biweekly, and accept only regulation amounts. Some reject recycling bins tainted with garbage. In response, some Britons are yelling at trash collectors, stealing neighbors’ bins—and burning their rubbish. More »

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      Great Britain  • environment  • recycling  • garbage  • trash

    • Fla.'s Crist Works Across the Eco-Lines

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 26, 08 1:50 PM CDT

      Fla.'s Crist Works Across the Eco-Lines

      (Newser) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is walking an environmental tightrope between encouraging conservation and alternative energy, and promoting oil exploration off the state’s coast, the Wall Street Journal reports.  Recent moves include the purchase of 300 square miles in the Everglades—a deal that shuts down the nation’s largest sugar-grower. But the governor also says he’ll support drilling off the coast as long as the state’s people and beaches are protected. More »

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      John McCain  • environment  • Florida  • energy  • vice presidential sweepstakes  • Charlie Crist  • Everglades

    • Warming Will Kill 66% of Calif. Plants Within Century

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jun 25, 08 1:49 PM CDT

      Warming Will Kill 66% of Calif. Plants Within Century

      (Newser) - If California’s climate warms significantly in the next 100 years the consequences could be grave for the majority of the state’s native plants, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A team of scientists from UC Berkeley and Duke found that up to 66% of the state’s plants wouldn’t have time to migrate to a higher, cooler elevation if carbon emissions continue at their current rate. More »

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      California  • global warming  • environment  • carbon emissions  • plants  • trees  • temperatures  • plant

    • Not So Easy to Green a Dem Convention

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 25, 08 10:47 AM CDT

      Not So Easy to Green a Dem Convention

      (Newser) - You can pledge to make your Dem convention “the greenest…in the history of the planet” (as Denver’s mayor recently did), you can hire a Director of Greening—but it’s still no small task to throw a sustainable presidential nominating conference. That's what the Journal discovered in a look at party preparations, which include a stymied search for organic, union-made baseball caps and participation by Coors—which has long been charged with discriminatory practices. More »

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      environment  • Democratic National Convention  • unions  • green  • greenhouse-gas emissions

    • White House Ignored EPA Pollutants Email

      New York Times  |  Jun 25, 08 9:34 AM CDT

      White House Ignored EPA Pollutants Email

      (Newser) - The White House didn’t like the findings in a Supreme Court-mandated report on pollutants from the EPA—so it simply refused to open the email, the New York Times reports. Instead, the administration has successfully pressured the agency into releasing a watered-down, recommendation-free report. Among the omitted sections: analysis showing that tougher automobile regulation could produce $500 billion to $2 trillion in economic benefits.