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European Parliament Takes Aim at Plastic Bags
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 11th, 2014
Environment News Service: Members of the European Parliament`s Environment Committee Monday approved a report for reducing the use of single-use lightweight plastic carrier bags. The report recommends a two-stage reduction target for plastic bags across the EU`s 28 Member States.
The report advances the MEPs` process of amending the law on packaging and waste to limit the negative impacts of plastic bags on the environment, based on a proposal by the European Commission, the executive branch of the EU government.
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In fracking, the energy business gets neighborly
Posted by Wall Street Journal: Russell Gold on March 11th, 2014
Wall Street Journal: It isn't just a radical fringe of Americans who worry about the environment—and energy executives finally seem to have noticed. A couple of years ago at the energy industry's massive annual gathering, IHS CERAWeek in Houston, the people who pull oil and natural gas out of the ground were largely dismissive of the public's concerns about hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, said Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. But this year, industry...