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President Rene Preval Assesses Haiti’s Quake Recovery

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PBS NewsHour‘s Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. There are many lessons from this. One is that while NGOs‘ independent work is essential immediately after the disaster, their working in co-ordination with the government is essential as time passes. I …

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11th Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants

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Image via Wikipedia Dr. Arlene Blum (Executive Director, Green Science Policy Institute) provided this report from the 11th Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants. This is a topic that that deserves more of our attention than it currently gets. Dear All, I am just back from an informative and fun Brominated Flame Retardant meeting in …

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