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- The Columbia River Treaty: On Track. How About A Columbia River Compact?
- Dead Swine-Gate: Anatomy of a Chinese Scandal
- Mercury in Seafood Diet Linked to Fox Die-Off
- GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust
- Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Seed-Replication Case
- Spray On Solar Windows Inch Closer to Market
- Researchers Think Industrious Oysters Could Clean Up Chesapeake
- Rethinking Ground Water Resources Management: A Local Approach Along the Mexico-US Border
- Just How Stressed Out Is Your Drinking Water?
- WATER POLLUTION: EPA Stumbles Again in Releasing More CAFO Documents
- Fewer Rain Forests Mean Less Energy for Developing Nations, Study Finds
- College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists
- It Doesn’t Matter If We Never Run Out of Oil: We Won’t Want to Burn It Anymore
- White House Arctic strategy: What’s next for oil, gas drilling?
- Food & Water Watch Sues FDA for Concealing Records on Arsenic in Poultry Feed
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- $ of a gal. of gas includes: cost of Crude Oil 76%; Refining Costs and Profits 6%; Distribution, Marketing, and Retail Costs and Profits 6%; Taxes 12%
- Nitric oxides are released from farms in large quantities due to manure application and are among the leading causes of acid rain.
- 41% of energy used in the home is for space heating, which is the #1 energy user in our homes.
- 73 percent of the Earth's surface water is locked in ice and snow.
- Of the world's leading 57 crops, 39 benefit from natural pollinators, such as birds and insects.
- Creating a gallon of ethanol consumes about 100 gallons of freshwater. In some regions, ethanol production can take three or more times that amount.
- About 10% of energy consumption goes toward raising, distributing, processing and preserving crops and animals used in the American food system.
- 69 percent of global freshwater is stored in glaciers and ice caps.
- A piece of A5 paper has a water footprint of 3 gallons, but amounts vary depending on wood.
- Producing 2.2 pounds of beef takes enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for twenty days.
- In 2010, 14.5 percent of American households and 20 percent of households with children were food insecure at some point.
- Natural gas is the largest source of energy produced in the US followed by coal, oil, renewable and nuclear. (As of 2011)
- Organic farms use as much as one-third less fossil fuels than their conventional counterparts, and can sequester carbon!
- In February 2012, financial speculation added an extra $.56 per gallon of gasoline at the pump.
- Animal agricultural operations produce nearly 73% of all ammonia air pollution in the US.
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