Murdy: Newmont Emissions Posed No Risks
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The head of US mining giant Newmont Corp. defended his company&#39;s environmental record Thursday, saying mercury emissions at a controversial Indonesian mine were well within the country&#39;s standards and posed no health hazards.
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A rail crash that killed seven people Saturday was not caused by any system failure, Environment and Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said Wednesday.
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Mother Nature won't be harmed when former Vice President Al Gore's hit global-warming documentary "An
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The government's top environmental regulator Wednesday defended the Bush administration's proposal for new limits on smog against Democratic charges that it's too weak and Republican complaints that it went too far.
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By Peter MacMahon Scottish Goverment Editor  THE company behind controversial plans to site the world's largest onshore wind farm in the Western Isles last night strongly denied that pressing ahead with the project would breach European rules on protecting wildlife.
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A study conducted by Indonesia's Environment Ministry has determined that Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. did not pollute the waters near its gold mine in North Sulawesi province despite complaints from villagers that they had been sickened by waste dumped in the bay near where they live.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States offered reassurance on Wednesday that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts but ruled out agreeing deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a G8 summit.
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It was a U.S. government scientist who helped push through the strong language in the upcoming international report on global warming. But that doesn't signal a change in President Bush's policy about greenhouse gas emissions.
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Two environmental outfits, Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense, have issued a study called "Climate Alert: Cleaner Energy for the Southwest." Predictably, the groups oppose the construction of a planned new $3.8 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant near Ely.
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NEW YORK, December 23  - The worldâs largest gold producer Newmont Mining (NEM.NYS) admitted yesterday that it had released 17 tons of waste mercury into the air, and another 16 tons into the water over a period of five years from its
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Indonesia should not face any problem in its plan to develop civilian nuclear energy because it has met its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday.
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As an environmentalist with more than 30 years of activism under my belt, I am generally not vulnerable to complacency. But if there is any area of environmental concern I tend to feel is well in hand it is the Great Lakes.
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By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 1--Wells in Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights show no traces of a pollutant that has tainted water in other communities, a state health official said Wednesday.
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US trade representative Susan Schwab tells Europe climate change is no excuse for barriers to trade.
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Capturing carbon emissions, then storing them under the sea bed, could help reduce overall emissions without changing behaviour.
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Climate concerns will reduce chance of new public backlash, says industry.
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By Bill Graham, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jun. 25--Explosions and a fire Sunday at a chemical plant in Richmond left no air pollution problems that could harm residents or firefighters, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency said today.