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Why China’s Environmental Laws Have Been Useless in Stopping Pollution

photo: Charlotte Marillet via flickr It’s no secret that China’s economic growth has contributed to massive environmental problems in the nation; it’s also fairly well known that China has actually enacted some pretty strict laws trying to stop that degradation, in fact some are stricter than in the United States. The effectiveness of those laws is, in the words of Peking University

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Thousands of Students to be Trained as Citizen Journalists in Gulf (Video)

Photo via CFL Interview with STREAM founders Philippe Cousteau and Casi Calloway As anyone who’s followed our commentary of the BP Gulf spill (and how could you miss it?) knows, one of the primary difficulties in telling the story of the disaster was simply getting access to it. Incidents aplenty where journalists were turned away, blocked off, even threatened with severe fines for attempting to cover the impacted areas. And now, the mainstream media is fast losing interest in the story altogether, and moving on. But the problems in t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Majority of Americans Think BP Should Face Criminal Charges

Image via Twilight Earth It should come as no surprise that BP’s public image is in the midst of a meltdown: Between the gaffe-a-day CEO Tony Hayward creating a heartless public face for the company, a near-complete lack of transparency on how much oil has really been gushing from the Gulf, and the fact that the disaster is still going on, it’s no wonder that the vast majority of Americans view the company unfavorably . But a recent pol… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cameron Diaz Still Thinks It’s Halloween of the Day

I guess Cameron Diaz isn’t who or what I thought she was, unless my title is right and she still thinks it is Halloween….even though I don’t think the stupid eye make-up is really the only cause of the disaster that has happened on her face…I think that the eye make up may just be what she wants us to think is the cause of the disaster that is her face….when in reality it is probably bad botox, or aging, or scars from self mutilation after Justin Timberlake left her for being too old, cuz something isn’t right in these pictures and Cameron Diaz is far from the piece of ass I once thought she was and here are some pictures of the tragedy… Pics via Fame

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