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ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: Army Factory Effluents Kill Cattle - Won't Own Up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 04:00:49
| KARACHI, Feb 4 (IPS) - The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA),
known to go about its work with zeal, appears to have run up
against a particularly formidable polluter -- a fertiliser
factory run by the Pakistan army. |
ECONOMY-CHINA: Stranded Migrant Workers Expose Home Truths (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 07:00:36
| BEIJING, Feb 4 (IPS) - The extent to which China?s miracle economy depends
on migrant labour has been dramatically displayed over the last
week as millions of migrant workers became stranded in
devastating snows making their way home for the Lunar New Year
holiday. |
ENERGY: Wall Street Majors Seek Cleaner Coal Portfolios (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 09:00:51
| WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (IPS) - Fear of regulation and financial loss related to
climate change has spurred three leading U.S. banks to adopt
environmental standards to tighten support for the coal industry.
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ENVIRONMENT: Record Financing For Biofuels, Not Food (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 09:00:51
| BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 4 (IPS) - Biofuels have quickly turned from environmental
saviour to just another mega-scale get-rich quick scheme.
Countries and regions without their own oil reserves to tap now
see their farms, peatlands and forests as potential "oil
fields" -- shallow but renewable lakes of green oil.
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