• A U.S. EPA program that evaluates the effect of chemicals on children is basically defunct.

• Strip-mined Appalachian mountains are being planted with chestnut trees.

• A Montana dam is breached to clean up toxic sediment.

• Snorting cocaine is bad for the environment.

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• Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, and Costa Rica race to be the first to be carbon neutral.

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