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It takes 70 to 90 percent less energy to make recycled paper and using it saves five pounds of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.
Severe Spring Floods Forecast for Upper Midwest, South and East
WASHINGTON, DC , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - An unusually wet and snowy winter will increase the potential for spring flood events, the National Weather Service warned today. Seasonal flooding...
Green Purchases Can Be Motivated by Desire for Higher Status
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - People will forgo luxury for green products when they shop in public, buying green because they want to be seen as caring...
Obama Administration Divided on Public Right-to-Know About Chemicals
WASHINGTON, DC , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - For the first time, the U.S. EPA is providing web access, free of charge, to the Toxic Substances Control Act Chemical Substance...
Poll: More Americans Optimistic About Environment Under Obama
PRINCETON, New Jersey , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - Since President Barack Obama took office, Americans have grown more satisfied with the overall quality of the environment in the United...
U.S.-Chinese Consortium Chooses Nevada for Wind Turbine Factory
LAS VEGAS, Nevada , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - A consortium of U.S. and Chinese companies has announced plans to build a factory in the Las Vegas area for manufacturing...
Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Urges National Renewable Energy Standard
WASHINGTON, DC , March 16, 2010 (ENS) - For the first time, a group of state governors is jointly requesting that Congress and the President adopt a national renewable energy...
Feds, NRG Energy Plan Texas-Sized Carbon Capture and Storage Project
WASHINGTON, DC , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Energy Department and NRG Energy will each contribute up to $154 million to fund a new project to capture and...
UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - Two months after the ruinous January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations' $1.44 billion revised humanitarian appeal for the country is...
Green Chemistry Breakthrough in Plastics Recycling
SAN JOSE, California , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - Scientists at IBM and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have developed a new method of making plastics that will permit...
World's Top Scientists to Scrutinize Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
NEW YORK, New York , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - A multinational organization of the world's science academies will conduct an independent review of processes and procedures used by the...

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