"Industrial chemicals dumped long ago still haunt Minden, W.Va., a community beset by cancer and fear. Like her father, physician Ayne Amjad is trying to track the links."
"In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence that these public sites boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to documents the department released this month and retracted a day later."
This International Association for Impact Assessment Special Symposium in Malaysia will examine the competing challenges of sustainability and economic development, with issues around income and social inequality, a growing gap between rich and poor, and continued environmental degradation across developing Asia — and how voluntary impact assessment tools and techniques could help achieve sustainable development goals.
"For 45 years, young interns with Audubon's Project Puffin have summered on remote islands in Maine, making a real impact on the species' recovery. Today, their work may be more critical than ever."
"Three days since an underground steam pipe burst in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, spewing asbestos-laced muck across several blocks, many residents were still barred from their homes on Sunday, coping not only with sudden homelessness, but fear about what the exposure could do to their health."
"On Saturday, hundreds of teen-agers—loud, pensive, stubbornly determined—marched through Manhattan. They represented a movement that other teen-agers had started, last year, called Zero Hour. "
"The Endangered Species Act, which for 45 years has safeguarded fragile wildlife while blocking ranching, logging and oil drilling on protected habitats, is coming under attack from lawmakers, the White House and industry on a scale not seen in decades, driven partly by fears that the Republicans will lose ground in November’s midterm elections."
"The way the Food and Drug Administration assesses safety has long favored industry studies over independent science."
"When acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announces a weakening of Obama-era clean car standards next week, it will be the first major rule rollback proposed on his watch."
"Then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's staff sought to protect him from exposure to toxic formaldehyde from an office desk last year, emails show — just months before his top political aides blocked the release of a report on health dangers from the same chemical."
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