'The Greene Report'
August 17, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:
- Great Lakes action on nuclear reactor risks
- Activists halt operations at mountaintop removal coal mine
- Dow requests approval for GE soy resistant to 2,4-D
- EPA stalling on bee die-offs
- Pennsylvania to shut down one of biggest U.S. coal ash ponds
- Establishment of the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge
- U.S. clean-up of Agent Orange-contaminated Vietnam
- Hazards of “green” household cleaners
- Nigerian oil spill near Exxon operations
- Ukrainian environmentalist murdered
August 3, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:
- ArcelorMittal agrees to clean up contaminated Lake Michigan site
- Latinos’ attitudes toward the environment
- Rainforest havens at risk
- Fracking: who’s in control?
- Texans poisoned by oil and gas facilities
- Utilities spend millions on attacking EPA action while deaths accumulate
- Murder of environmental activists
- Oil company threatens 284 remaining beluga whales
- Oil dispersants disrupt the ocean food chain
July 20, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:
- Push for high-speed rail in Indiana
- Earth First! temporarily halts fracking operation
- Fossil fuels draining water supply in middle of drought
- Four environmental victories in two weeks
- Victory for baby sea turtles in Puerto Rico
- Critical fight to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay wilderness
- Problem at California nuclear power plant is worse than originally thought
- Dirty Dozen, Clean 15 produce
- Big polluters opposing EPA’s regulations on soot
- Bureau of Land Management to safeguard public lands from fracking, with public pressure
July 6, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:
- Help stop a coal-to-gas plant in Rockport, Indiana
- Council of Canadians calls on provinces to ban fracking
- NAACP joins lawsuit to defend mercury and air toxics standards
- Navy testing, training exercises a dire threat to marine life
- Germany to close all nuclear reactors by 2022
- Murders of environmental activists on the rise
- Drilling for oil in the Arctic
- Exxon Mobil project for Rocky Mountains defeated
- Indigenous people in Malaysian Borneo fight proposed dam
- Toxic liquid pour into the earth poisons groundwater
June 22, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes:
- Threats to Indiana forests multiply
- Big Coal running out of room for disposing coal ash
- Vast amounts of waste from factory farms
- Whales under threat from Japan
- FDA rejects petition to ban bisphenol A for humans
- Congress considers wilderness-protection bills
- Gasoline Regulations Act attacks undermines clean air and public health
- Planting genetically modified crops before they’re proven safe
- Extending nuclear reactor operating licenses for up to 80 years
Read The Greene Report archive on The Bloomington Alternative.
June 8, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes
- Radiation released at Fukushima higher than originally reported
- Important Canadian environmental research center to close
- Watering your garden can be dangerous to your health
- Mega-sprawl “village” plan near wildlife refuge defeated
- Promising new chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Industry pays people to wear pro-coal t-shirts at EPA hearing
- Children protest fracking near their schools
- Stopping Shell from drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean
- Ohio set to beat Pennsylvania at passing a bad fracking law
- Halting uranium contamination of Navajo drinking water supplies
Read The Greene Report archive on The Bloomington Alternative.
May 26, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes:
- Mercury from coal-fired power plans ruining Indiana’s waterways
- Sad state of recycling in Indiana
- Military burn pits threaten the environment and troops’ health
- KFC destroying Indonesia’s rainforest
- Chemical industry determined to undermine HHS listing of styrene as a potential carcinogen
- Impending risky schemes for 'dirty bombs on wheels'
- Malaysian “Penan Peace Park” combines forest protection with socioeconomic development
- Global climate change in mind
- Increase in plastic waste polluting the North Pacific
- Nanotechnology threatens firefighters
May 12, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes:
- Carcinogens in Monroe County’s environment
- ALA’s pollution rankings of Indiana’s cities
- Clean-energy advocates are the U.S. majority
- Silica dust a newly revealed health risk from fracking
- EPA ignores the science of the carcinogen atrazine
- Why Fukushima is a greater disaster than Chernobyl
- Two grocery chains earn top grades for seafood sustainability
- Fetal exposure to the pesticide chloropyrifos lowers intelligence
- Monsanto buys company that blames it for bee deaths
- United States draws up plans for nuclear-powered drones
April 28, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes:
- Indiana leads the country in pollution discharges
- Trial begins on ALCOA’s toxic waste dump at Indiana’s Squaw Creek coal mine
- IU-Bloomington named one of top “green” colleges and universities
- Westinghouse gets the okay to supply nuclear reactors to India
- No second term for Krinstine Svinicki, NRC commissioner
- Gatica wins the Goldman Environmental Prize
- Nine low-tech steps to community resilience under global warming
- Coming to your supermarket: dioxin-laced corn
- Let’s eliminate carcinogens in our everyday products
- Prescribed burns and managed wildfires are deadly
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Read The Greene Report archive on The Bloomington Alternative.
April 14, 2012
The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes:
- AK Steel nation’s premier toxic water polluter
- Dangerous levels of air pollution in Evansville
- USDA acknowledges exterminating birds, crops and bees
- Capitalizing on climate change destruction with the world’s longest fiber-optic link
- Low doses of some chemicals tied to ill health
- Conservatives’ trust in science has plummeted
- Six finalists vie for Indianapolis Prize
- Beware of what you’re putting in your gas tank
- Indiana water quality the focus of Earth Month
- Appalachian bears buried alive by mountaintop-removal mining
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Read The Greene Report archive on The Bloomington Alternative.
