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...Water Act of 1972 and halt the burying of streams with coal debris, which would block further contamination. The EPA does not have the authority to regulate mountaintop mining, but it is responsible for preventing the practice from affecting water quality, said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson at the National Press Club in Washington. The EPA will "try to minimize, if not end, any environmental degradation to the water" caused by mining, she said. "We fight for clean water under the Clean Water Act. So our role is limited to ensuring that these [mining] projects, if they're approved...
...apply. Since the British handover in 1997, the former colonial entrepôt has been governed as a special administrative region (SAR) of China under the principle of "one country, two systems," and it looks a lot more like a democracy than the mainland. It has a free press, independent bewigged judges (a legacy of the British) and regularly scheduled elections - although there are no direct elections for the SAR's Chief Executive or for half of the legislature, which has seats reserved for "functional constituencies" representing various professions. Hong Kong is no Potemkin village...
Dodson, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, will share the rotating committee chair position next year with Chris McAuliffe, Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne, according to a press release from the Australian National University...
Dodson told the Australian Associated Press that he plans to examine why Native Americans have a longer life expectancy than Australian Aboriginals during his time at Harvard...
...will also be a good opportunity to find out more about some of the work being done in the US that I can bring back to Australia,” Dodson said in the ANU press release. “Indigenous peoples from around the world have much to gain from sharing knowledge about their individual efforts to win full rights and recognition...