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252 princ.i.p.al source of human-caused mercury in the environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Mercury: Basic Information," February 7, 2012, http://www.epa.gov/hg/about.htm.
253 include at least some amount of methyl-mercury
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "What You Need To Know About Mercury in Fish and Sh.e.l.lfish," June 20, 2012, http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishsh.e.l.lfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm#isthere.
254 cancellation of 166 new coal plants
Mark Hertsgaard, "How a Gra.s.sroots Rebellion Won the Nation's Biggest Climate Victory," Mother Jones, April 2, 2012.
255 1,200 new coal plants are now planned in 59 countries
Ailun Yang and Yiyun Cui, Global Coal Risk a.s.sessment: Data a.n.a.lysis and Market Research (Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: World Resources Inst.i.tute, 2012).
256 65 percent in the next two decades
International Energy Agency, "World Energy Outlook: Executive Summary," 2011, http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/publications/weo-2011/.
257 the CO2 emissions would continue destroying the Earth's ecosystem
Kurt Kleiner, "Coal to Gas: Part of a Low-Emissions Future?," Nature, February 28, 2008.
258 70 to 75 percent of the carbon in coal for each unit of energy produced
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Air Emissions," December 2007.
259 more expensive to produce and carry even harsher impacts
Bryan Walsh, "There Will Be Oil and That's the Problem," Time, March 29, 2012.
260 three quarters of the amount in the atmosphere
Rattan Lal, "Carbon Sequestration," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, February 2008.
261 his successor has made policy changes that are reversing
Jeffrey T. Lewis, "Pace of Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Falls," Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2012.
262 dramatic "dieback" of the Amazon at mid-century
Justin Gillis, "The Amazon Dieback Scenario," New York Times, Green blog, October 7, 2011.
263 Indonesia and Malaysia-in order to establish palm oil plantations
Brad Plumer, "EPA Faces Crucial Climate Decision on Diesel Made from Palm Oil," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, April 27, 2012.
264 peatlands contain more than one third of all the global soil carbon
Reynaldo Victoria et al., United Nations Environment Programme, "UNEP Yearbook: The Benefits of Soil Carbon," 2012.
265 80 percent of global forest cover is in publicly owned forests
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, "Global Forest Resources a.s.sessment 2010," 2010, p. xxiv, http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2010/en/.
266 Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, "State of the World's Forests 2011," 2011, http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2000e/i2000e00.htm.
267 especially cattle ranching
Doug Boucher et al., Union of Concerned Scientists, "Solutions for Deforestation-Free Meat," 2012, http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/forest_solutions/solutions-for-deforestation-free-meat.html.
268 as much as 22 percent of all carbon stored
Sharon Oosthoek, "Boreal Forests Ignored in Climate Change Fight," CBC News, November 12, 2009, http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2009/11/11/boreal-carbon-climate-change.html.