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		<title>Our Mountains Are Under Siege‏</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fauzia Rafiq</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Judd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mountaintop removal coal mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My home is being destroyed.
I grew up in Kentucky, and like everyone from Appalachia, just seeing our beautiful mountains and valleys tells me I am home. Our mountains are our heritage and our legacy to future generations. But big coal companies are using explosives to literally blow the tops off the mountains, extract the coal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthpoems.wordpress.com&blog=3696953&post=308&subd=earthpoems&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save Our Waterways! Speak for the Rivers!‏</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fauzia Rafiq</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill C-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian waterways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Save Our Waterways!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speak for rivers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tell the Senate not to leave us up the creek without a paddle.
The federal government has included drastic and harmful amendments to the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA), in Part 7 of the Budget Implementation Act, Bill C-10. The bill is now going to the Senate.
Please take a moment to take action at
org2.democracyinaction.org
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		<title>Doctors and environmentalists warn against &#8217;sri pai&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fauzia Rafiq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Hazard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Punjab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acetylene and Oxygen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City District Government Lahore (CDGL)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Engineering and Technology (UET)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Abdul Manan
LAHORE: People throughout the city are eating the unhealthy and potentially hazardous ‘sri pai’, as these are prepared by burning off the hair of goats with highly toxic gases, doctors and environmentalists told Daily Times on Saturday.
There are two ways to cook sri pai- it can either be cooked by properly mixing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthpoems.wordpress.com&blog=3696953&post=299&subd=earthpoems&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hairspray linked to birth defect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fauzia Rafiq</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hypospadias]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect, BBC reported on Friday.
Citing a study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the report said that Imperial College London scientists talked to women who had babies with hypospadias, where the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthpoems.wordpress.com&blog=3696953&post=296&subd=earthpoems&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PHA refills Manto Park lake without repairs</title>
		<link>http://earthpoems.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/pha-refills-manto-park-lake-without-repairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fauzia Rafiq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool City Lahore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Punjab]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minar-e-Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHA refills Manto Park lake without repairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safe drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seepage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Afnan Khan

LAHORE: The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has allowed the refilling of the artificial lake in Manto Park without repairing its base and boundary walls.
The PHA emptied the one-kilometre-long lake more than a month ago with a view to construct a concrete base and walls of the ancient lake as the constant water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthpoems.wordpress.com&blog=3696953&post=292&subd=earthpoems&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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