Czech Environment Ministry approves renovation of country’s biggest coal-fired power station

Earlier this year Micronesia called on the Czech Republic not to refit its biggest coal-fired power station, Prunéřov, saying the pollution it will produce threatens the tiny state’s future. The matter also proved controversial in the Czech Republic itself, leading to the departure of one cabinet minister.

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Czech environment ministry gives green light to power plant renovation opposed by Micronesia

PRAGUE – The Czech Republic’s environment ministry has approved the controversial renovation of a power plant.

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Iowa environment ‘mixed bag’: DNR chief

URBANDALE — The state of Iowa’s environment is a mixed bag with fishing and camping activities surging to record numbers, problems with deer herds and water quality improving, and air quality and the state’s pheasant population on the decline.

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Do more to save the environment

MALAYSIA launched a nationwide campaign on Feb 23, Earth Day, to plant 26 million trees — one tree for every Malaysian — by 2014. It was a symbolic gesture to mark our appreciation for the environment.

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The evolution of a nation’s business environment

SUCCESSFUL economic development is a process of successive upgrading, in which a nation’s business environment evolves to support and encourage increasingly sophisticated and productive ways of competing within the private sector.

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Security breaches cost UK businesses billions in worst-ever threat environment, says PwC

Security breaches cost UK businesses billions in worst-ever threat environment, says PwC A new wave of security breaches is costing UK businesses billions…

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ePolitix election focus: energy and environment

Today ePolitix.com and our stakeholders examine the political parties’ plans for climate change, energy and the environment.

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NBC Partners with Prince Charles for New TV Special on Environment

NBC is teaming up with Prince Charles for a new TV special about the environment. Harmony , which is slated to air in November, stems from Prince Charles’ three decades of work fighting climate change and searching for new solutions to the worldwide environmental crisis…

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Girls make environment focus of Scouting award

BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Reduce, Reuse and Recycle may very well be the three R’s that are the best way to help protect the environment. For four Jackson Girl Scouts, those three R’s are the elements contained in their Girl Scout Silver Award project called “Rescue Our Resources.” read more

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Nick Clegg launches Liberal Democrat environment manifesto

The Liberal Democrats have set out radical plans to protect the environment and set the economy on a path to a zero carbon Britain.

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