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(Français) Quand les ex-usines deviennent des « serial killers »

27 May 2013

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(Français) Ethylotest : sanction obligatoire pour l’environnement

1 Mar 2013

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(Français) Champagne ! (avec modération …)

24 Jan 2013

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(Français) Le décret éthylotest à la poubelle !

15 Nov 2012

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(Français) Gestion responsable des éthylotests usagés

12 Jul 2012

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Ban on Perchlorethylene : a fake measure

29 Jun 2012

The Ministry for Ecology has put together a plan confirming the use of perchlorethylene, a solvent that is toxic for humans and the environment, until 2028. As a result, all Laundromat owners buying dry cleaning equipment containing perchlorethylene until the deadline of January 1st 2013 will be able to use it for fifteen years.

The text is so complicated and tangled that the members of the High Council for Technological Risks Prevention, on their June 26th 2012 meeting, only discovered this deadline after two and a half hours of debate.

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Seineland

13 Dec 2011

”It’s about offering people living in Paris and around a major public space, several hectares in size, for new economic, cultural and sporting zones.” With lounges, exhibitions, restaurants, businesses, recreation areas, the Tour de France, event complexes and night clubs, the project is destined to welcome a mixture of entertainment and a crossbreeding of lucrative concessions. Short of land, the Mayor of Paris found in the global holdings of UNESCO some golden hectares, which will not stop city hall, if the project is ratified, to hunt the aid for public institutions like the Seine-Normandy Water Agency or ADEME to sensitize users to the handling of their cigarette butts and shot glasses.

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(Français) L’avenue de la créosote cancérogène

7 Oct 2011

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Cover Your Eyes!

8 Sep 2011

The 3D battle rages on. The manufacturers see it clearly. The future of the market of screens passes to 3 Dimensions and the journalists who serve as guinea pigs transmit to the consumer brief traces of dismay. The latest example is a special envoy of the newspaper Le Monde to the electronics convention IFA Berlin said after being positioned in front of a Toshiba 3D screen without glasses that “a blurry impression goes away when one turns the head”.

Following the request for an inquiry in February 2011 from Robin des Bois on the health and ocular effects in particular of the Nintendo 3DS (1), ANSES (2) and the NGO have estimated together that the questions concerning the potential health effects of this game console merit being asked to the entire line of 3D technology (cinema, television, cell phones…).

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(Français) Pêche à pied : 108, 112, 116, les coefficients du déferlement

25 Aug 2011

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