David Roberts, a regular contributor to Grist, a prominent environmental news and commentary blog site, carried the denier Holocaust theme even farther.
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In environmental news, Xinhua flags up a survey by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences showing that only 22.2%of shallow groundwater in the North China Plain is drinkable because of pollution.
Environmental group WWF Scotland also welcomed news of the funding package to help develop a test centre.
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The Green Room is a series of opinion pieces on environmental issues running weekly on the BBC News website.
The Beijing News notes that progress on environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the white paper.
The Beijing News and internet users criticise environmental officials in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, for promoting their achievement in a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper.
She has written about environmental health, climate, radiation, energy and other issues for numerous publications including Miller-McCune Magazine, High Country News, SELF, and Environmental Health Perspectives.
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Beijing News reports an appeal from environmental groups for residents to light fewer firecrackers and fireworks - an important tradition - in order to keep the air clean.
"Many African countries are feeling the effects of population growth, and are finding they'll need to deal with it in order to continue developing as well as to address their environmental issues, " he told BBC News.
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The environmental group Friends of the Earth tentatively applauded the news of a new food safety agency.
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Val Cameron, head of environmental health, said it was "particularly good news".
"This is going to be a major problem, " Professor Gordon Hamilton of the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies at the University of Maine told BBC News Online.
One more thing: if the best news we're getting on the environmental front is stick-on solar fans, it's sad we're not seeing the same emphasis on making cars, trucks and SUVs that are kinder to the lungs of millions stuck gasping at the crosswalk.
Most Americans would celebrate the news, but the Sierra Club and other environmental activist groups are protesting it.
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The Dallas Morning News reported that West Fertilizer had told the Environmental Protection Agency that it presented no risk of fire or explosion.
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On Saturday, Biden and the seven heads of state will explore the financial crisis and environmental issues in a round table discussion, the Mercopress news agency reported.
"Certainly from the EU side, what we want to see is a system where we have the highest environmental integrity that is possible, " he told BBC News.
Why are environmental journalists so obsessed with horror stories and so repelled by good news?
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The good news is that entrepreneurial energy can help to remedy some environmental harms (and not just with masks and bottled water) if the incentives are drawn right.
However, Dr Day from the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, told BBC News Online that horticulturalists and gardeners in Northern Ireland should not panic... just yet.
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That and environmental concerns make the Arctic more problematic for Americans, he told BBC News.
Now the bad news: many Americans still view solar as a solution to environmental woes rather than high utility bills.
Facebook launched the green page as a resource for people who not only want to know what the company is doing to go green, but also to share green news from around the Web, according to CNET and the Environmental Leader.
John German, manager for environmental and energy analysis at Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ), described his company's pioneering development of natural gas passenger vehicles and how that development might bloom.
Environmental lawyer Wang Canfa, who runs a pollution aid centre in Beijing, told the AFP news agency that it was the first time the "cancer village" phrase had appeared in a ministry document.
She told BBC News that the study's target audience included people who had not engaged with environmental issues in the past because it had "all been a bit guilt-filled and full of doom and gloom".
The good news is that well-regulated countries have done something about the industry's poor environmental performance.
She also anchored TWC's weekly news program, 'Forecast Earth', traveling the U.S. interviewing environmental pioneers and leaders in sustainability.
Oriental Daily News says villagers attacked a fellow villager in Pailian, Zhejiang, after he had offered an environmental official money to swim in a polluted river.
Professor Roger Baker, an expert in panic disorders and a clinical psychologist based at Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust, told BBC News Online that it was likely that panic attacks were caused by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors.
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