Rich must cut emissions for poor to develop (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Rich countries like the United States must reduce their carbon footprint to support poor nations who have no choice but to increase their emissions if they are to lift themselves out of poverty, a leading environmentalist said. [News Source]

Sudden surplus arises as threat to ethanol boom. The ethanol boom of recent years — which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America — may be fading. [News Source]

Can a dairy be big and organic? It's not exactly Old MacDonald's farm. [News Source]

Health Highlights: Sept. 30, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: [News Source]

A week with no wheels.

It’s easy to blame environmental problems on somebody else.

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Lynn School of Nursing building at fau certified as ‘green.’ After many months of effort, Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing in Boca Raton was been LEED certified. [News Source]

Are biodefense labs a blessing or a curse? Critics point to recent events at Texas A&M University, where researchers failed to report that a student fell ill after a lab exposure to the bacteria Brucella, as proof that not all institutions studying dangerous diseases are up to snuff when it comes to safety. [News Source]

Coal fired plants, a national Catch-22. Coal-fired power plants are the powerhouse of our power grid, but they're also a major source of the country's air pollution. [News Source]

Boston goes green to clean. It's a dirty business, but companies need to start using safer cleaning products, activists say. [News Source]

Bush’s EPA is pursuing fewer polluters. The Environmental Protection Agency's pursuit of criminal cases against polluters has dropped off sharply during the Bush administration, with the number of prosecutions, new investigations and total convictions all down by more than a third. [News Source]

Pollution aggravates heart ailments.

City dwellers across India are bearing the brunt of pollution, which in addition to making you wheeze and cough can actually affect your heart.

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