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"Hot and Getting Hotter: Heat Islands Cooking U.S. Cities" [1]

"Cities are almost always hotter than the surrounding rural area but global warming takes that heat and makes it worse. In particularly days over 90°F, are associated with dangerous ozone pollution levels that can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks, and otthe future, this combination of urbanization and climate change could raise urban temperatures to levels that threaten human health, strain energy resources, and compromise economic productivity."

Source: Climate Central [2], 08/21/2014

"Elephant Slaughter, African Slavery And America's Pianos" [7]

"For the better part of a century, from 1840 to around 1940, the U.S. was the world's biggest buyer of ivory. Hunters killed hundreds of thousands of elephants, and uncounted numbers of Africans were enslaved to carry the tusks to ships bound for America. Most of that ivory went to a tiny town in Connecticut — a town that's now grappling with this dark part of its past."

Source: NPR [8], 08/20/2014

"Latino Group Sides With EPA on Climate Rule" [11]

"A board member at a major Latino environmental group joined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Gina McCarthy in promoting the agency’s rule to limit carbon emissions from power plants."

Source: The Hill [12], 08/20/2014

"EPA to Require Air Pollution Measurements in Black Communities" [15]

"WASHINGTON -- For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency may require oil refineries to regularly measure the air quality at their perimeters. These fence line measurements will give surrounding communities – largely low-income communities of color – data on the level of pollution they are exposed to each day."

Source: NNPA [16], 08/20/2014

"Growing Number of Biosafety Labs Raises Public Health Concern" [17]

"Since the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and raised the specter of bioterrorism in the United States, the number of high-level biosafety labs operated by governments, universities and others to study potentially lethal pathogens has been expanding rapidly. According to a 2013 report to Congress, the number of these labs grew by almost 10 percent, from 1,362 to 1,495, between 2008 and 2010 alone."

Source: Center for Public Integrity [18], 08/20/2014

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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hot-and-getting-hotter-heat-islands-cooking-us-cities [2] http://www.climatecentral.org/news/urban-heat-islands-threaten-u.s.-health-17919 [3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/western-gulf-lease-sale-attracts-110-million-high-bids [4] http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/08/western-gulf-lease-sale-attracts-110-million-in-high-bids.html [5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nc-legislators-reach-compromise-coal-ash-bill [6] http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/08/19/5115948/legislators-revive-coal-ash-bill.html#.U_XF2GMXOcl [7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/elephant-slaughter-african-slavery-and-americas-pianos [8] http://www.npr.org/2014/08/18/338989248/elephant-slaughter-african-slavery-and-americas-pianos [9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/seeing-purpose-and-profit-algae [10] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/science/not-letting-algae-just-float-around.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0 [11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/latino-group-sides-epa-climate-rule [12] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/215520-latino-group-sides-with-epa-on-climate-rule [13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/michigan-landfill-taking-other-states-radioactive-fracking-waste [14] http://www.freep.com/article/20140819/NEWS06/308190016/fracking-radioactive-waste-michigan [15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-require-air-pollution-measurements-black-communities [16] http://www.blackpressusa.com/2014/08/epa-to-require-air-pollution-measurements-in-black-communities/#sthash.MmDLSLn3.XHB18GJC.dpbs [17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/growing-number-biosafety-labs-raises-public-health-concern [18] http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/20/15307/growing-number-biosafety-labs-raises-public-health-concern [19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/report-nuke-regulator-hacked-three-times-three-years [20] http://thehill.com/policy/technology/215488-report-nuke-regulator-hacked-three-times-in-three-years [21] https://www.sej.org/search_results [22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3295 [23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3292 [24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3293 [25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3294 [26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3297 [27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3298 [28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3299 [29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3300 [30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4969