The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that the systems used at gas stations pumps to capture harmul gasoline vapors while refueling cars can be phased out.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the extension of a public process exploring the expansion of incentives for voluntary partnerships with private landowners and other land stewards to help conserve imperiled wildlife.
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The Central Park Conservancy was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Alcoa Foundation and an in-kind donation of aluminum valued at $140,000 from Alcoa Recycling to design a sustainable waste management system.
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The area of the globe covered by wetlands has dropped 6 percent in 15 years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in areas that have experienced the largest increases in population in recent decades.
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According to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spokesman, indoor air pollution causes 50 percent of illnesses globally.
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Every day, about 200 dogs and their owners visit the Cosmo dog park in Gilbert, Ariz. When they go home, they leave behind about eight cubic yards of dog waste, plastic bottles, bags and other trash. Normally, all of that junk ends up in a landfill.
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A new study finds that fetal exposure to the plastic additive bisphenol A, or BPA, alters mammary gland development in primates.
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