Thousands of Rwandans have taken the day off work to pick up plastic bags as part of a government attempt to clean up the environment.
When it comes to paying to clean up the environment, 70 percent of teens were willing to pay up to 50 cents more a gallon for clean gasoline.
"You are not seeing the value that we should be seeing for the clean-up and the environment, " said Pollet, who heads Heart of America Northwest.
The fields have been operated for roughly 12 years by Pluspetrol, the country's biggest oil and natural gas producer, and it will be obliged to clean up the contamination, said Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal.
Chemicals specialists were called in, with the Environment Agency carrying out the clean-up.
The council said its team along with the Environment Agency and aided by the Health Protection Agency were monitoring the clean up.
The message to the East Europeans from Margot Wallstrom, the European commissioner for the environment, is blunt: clean up, or stay out.
According to Pascal Luciani, the technical adviser to the French Environment Minister, results are encouraging but could have been achieved earlier if the clean-up operation had not been hindered by the bombing.
They added the firm's "no-expense-spared clean up" of the River Lark demonstrated its ongoing commitment to the local environment.
Environment Minister Zoltan Illes told the BBC the clean-up would take at least one year and probably require technical and financial assistance from the European Union.
On the environment, Capuano will push for more money to clean up superfund sites and will oppose efforts to roll back air and water pollution standards.
"It is apparent that many people still have complete disregard for the way they dispose of litter and waste, meaning expensive costs for the taxpayer in clean-up fees and staff having to work in a dangerous environment, " he said.
Together, setting a market for and incentivizing clean energy, we have the ability to take the steps we need to lessen our dependence on foreign oil and to help clean up our environment.
One has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment (and a future up cycle is likely too) and keep in mind that this will limit the ability for these companies to raise equity financing in the future.
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