Jobs vs. environment fight over inland port similar to Scripps standoff
“Remember Scripps” has become the rallying cry for environmental groups lining up to fight an industrial distribution center planned on sugar cane land in Palm Beach County.

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Bangladesh wants 15 pct of climate fund: minister
Bangladesh, one of the nations most vulnerable to global warming, will seek 15 percent of a 30-billion-dollar climate change fund committed at the Copenhagen summit, the environment minister said Tuesday.

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Indian minister lauds Copenhagen accord
NEW DELHI, Dec. 22 (UPI) — Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his country’s concerns had not only been protected but also enhanced at the climate-change summit at Copenhagen.

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The Decade in the Environment
Ten years of climate change, local food, and tipping points. This decade will be remembered, first and foremost, as the time we finally came around to understanding climate change—but failed to do anything about it. Such is the environmental paradox of the aughts. It was the decade during which we started as a society to take these grave environmental threats and challenges seriously. Yet during …

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Sustainability Expert Adelaida L. Carbo Joins UL Environment, Inc.
UL Environment, Inc. today announces Adelaida L. Carbo as the organization’s new environmental scientist in indoor air quality . A materials scientist, Carbo will focus on the advancement of healthy indoor air environments by promoting the creation and use of new or improved building materials.

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