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One Shot Left | Monbiot

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 25th November 2008
George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by the time the bastards kick him out. [...]

Polluters liable, even if they follow the rules, top court says

Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008
OTTAWA – Industrial polluters can be forced to pay damages if they excessively annoy nearby residents, even if companies comply with regulations governing emissions, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday in a decision that stresses environmental protection.
The unanimous judgment ends a [...]

NEW STUDY | Benefits of Meeting Clean Air Standards

California Loses $28 Billion Yearly Due to Health Effects of Pollution. By Louis Sahagun, LATimes, November 13, 2008. “The California economy loses about $28 billion annually due to premature deaths and illnesses linked to ozone and particulates spewed from hundreds of locations in the South Coast and San [...]

REPORT | Effects of industrial air pollution on the respiratory health of children

By E. E.  Nkwocha; R. O. Egejuru;
Courtesy of International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
Originally published Sep. 2008
Full Report:effects-of-industrial-air-pollution-on-the-respiratory-health-of-children

There is growing concern regarding to the possible effects of air pollution on respiratory health of children in Eleme industrial area of Port-Harcourt Nigeria. A total of 250 children were sampled from six primary [...]

Drive-thrus are bad for you, city argues

Vaughan

November 06, 2008 08:26 PM
Bank drive-thru approved, but sparks debate about merits
By: Caroline Grech

If you like to get your coffee or do your banking at a drive-thru, you might have to change your ways if some Vaughan councillors get their way.
An application by York Major Holdings [...]

Mike Ivey’s Business Beat: DQ drive-through sails through

Mike Ivey —  11/12/2008 11:07 am
The last time Madison was arguing over drive-through windows at fast-food restaurants, it turned into a national brouhaha fed by Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report.
This time it barely hit the local radar screen.
I’m talking about the approval last week of a new [...]

Tim Hortons Refuses to be Environmentally Responsible … As Per Usual

PACKAGING
Tim Hortons gets a reprieve on new waste rules
Coffee chain and fast-food outlets reach a compromise with the city, but grocery retailers and bottled-water makers are not included
JENNIFER LEWINGTON AND JEFF GRAY
Bert Marotte
November 13, 2008
Tim Hortons and other fast-food outlets yesterday won a five-month reprieve – but grocery retailers and bottled-water makers did not – [...]

Tim Hortons | Lobbying against Environment | Conundrum

INFLUENCING CITY HALL
City watchdog set to probe coffee giant over lobbying
Firm’s spokesman argues he’s on city registry

JEFF GRAY
November 11, 2008

Toronto’s lobbyist watchdog is investigating whether doughnut chain Tim Hortons – battling the city over a proposed environmental ban on its coffee cups – is following city hall’s [...]

A New RWDI Report as Commissioned by the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

This was discovered while reading a new report on Ontario’s Undervalued Water: 2007/08 Annual Report – Getting to K(No)w
Here is a report (full report is attached) presented to Gord Miller, Ontario Environmental Commissioner:
“Predicting Air Quality at Street Level – A State-of-Science Review Study – 08 April 2008 Project [...]