Partners to clean up mine pollution
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SNOWBIRD - The mining industry helped build Utah&#39;s economy, but boom-time digging led to a modern-day landscape pockmarked with holes that once produced silver, gold, copper and lead.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Feb. 11--Coal, the source of half of the nation's power, has a dirty reputation with environmentalists. But a plant that Tampa Electric Co.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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Ethiopia, one of the world&#39;s most mine-infested countries, says it has joined a global landmine ban as more than 100 nations met to rejuvenate the campaign to eradicate the weapons and aid victims worldwide.
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A new U.N.-led alliance will work out  global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from  mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and  televisions, the group said on Tuesday.
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Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, has been trailed by allegations of pollution on four continents, including Indonesia.
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A RESTORATION scheme to improve the amount of wildlife using the River Cole through Birmingham is gathering pace.   A series of clean-up sessions are taking place around the Colehall Lane area of Shard End.
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The 1997 ban on landmines has succeeded beyond hopes, but states must follow through with their obligations to clear landmines and assist victims, campaigners said on the treaty's 10th anniversary on Tuesday.
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The iron ore producer is taking energy matters into its own hands.
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Nine companies join a scheme to measure and reduce a product's impact on the environment.
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The UN launches a global initiative to tackle the growing mountain of electrical and electronic waste.
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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From Africa to Russia, from Peru to China, mining companies face a problem: the workers who haul up the earth's riches are coming down with AIDS, and it is hampering operations at a time of booming demand for minerals.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 10--Mining activities generally make a mess of the landscape. It doesn't matter whether the target of the mining is copper, limestone or calcium carbonate. The end result is like a wound that won't heal and continues to affect everything around it.
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Nokia NOK1V.HE said on Thursday it   and other mobile industry players have agreed on measures to   reduce pollution from the manufacture and disposal of mobile   phones.