Thanks to renewed interest in nuclear power, the United States is on the verge of a uranium mining boom, and nowhere is the hurry to stake claims more pronounced than in the districts flanking the Grand Canyon’s storied sandstone cliffs.
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washington – More than half of the scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency who responded to a survey said they have experienced political interference in their work.
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Every time a new coal-fired power plant is proposed anywhere in the United States, a lawyer from the Sierra Club or an allied environmental group is assigned to stop it, by any bureaucratic or legal means necessary.
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On the brink of a nuclear power resurgence in America, the
once-vilified industry is buoyed by a slate of presidential
candidates who seem ready to embrace – or at least consider – a
nuclear energy future.
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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to resume long-stalled
testing for toxics on the Navajo reservation unleashed by abandoned
Cold War uranium mines, but it and four other federal agencies have
yet to come up with overall cleanup and health plans, their
representatives told seven House members in a closed meeting this week.
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Navajo tribal officials asked Congress on Tuesday for at least
$500 million to finish cleaning up lingering contamination on the
Navajo reservation in the American Southwest from Cold War-era
uranium mining, an industry nurtured by its only customer until 1971:
the United States government.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today plans to
propose spending $150 billion over 10 years on new clean-energy
programs, including proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
to develop new energy sources, according to senior campaign advisors.
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President Bush indicated Saturday that he would be willing to
accept a larger increase for a children’s health insurance program
than the one he has proposed, but defended his veto of the expansion
of coverage approved by Congress.
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President Bush skipped the United Nations gathering on global
warming for 80 world leaders in New York this week, and he had to be
coaxed into attending the secretary-general’s more intimate dinner on
the subject.
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For five years, the Washington-based World Bank Group has been
trying to save one of Earth’s last great forests in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
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