Lead Paint: "Still 'A Silent Scourge'"
"BENTON HARBOR -- While inspecting a house for lead contamination, Steve Weldert came across a child's toy dump truck in a window sill filled with paint chips."
Source: St. Joseph Herald Palladium, 08/26/2013
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"Canadian Documents Suggest Shift on Pipeline"
"OTTAWA -- Ever since President Obama said in June that a litmus test for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada was whether it would 'significantly' worsen global warming, Canadian government officials have insisted it would not."
Source: NY Times, 08/26/2013
"Where Sand Is Gold, the Reserves Are Running Dry"
"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- With inviting beaches that run for miles along South Florida’s shores, it is easy to put sand into the same category as turbo air-conditioning and a decent mojito — something ever present and easily taken for granted."
Source: NY Times, 08/26/2013
Fracking Health Project Suggests Air Pollution May Be Bigger Concern"
"PITTSBURGH -- A project examining the local health impacts from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people who may be affected, and the results challenge the industry position that no one suffers but also suggest the problems may not be as widespread as some critics claim."
Source: AP, 08/26/2013
"News Study Finds U.S. Chemical Safety Data Wrong About 90 Percent"
"Even the best national data on chemical accidents is wrong nine times out of 10."
"A Dallas Morning News analysis of more than 750,000 federal records found pervasive inaccuracies and holes in data on chemical accidents, such as the one in West that killed 15 people and injured more than 300."
"In fact, no one at any level of government knows how often serious chemical accidents occur each year in the United States. And there is no plan in place for federal agencies to gather more accurate information.
Source: Dallas Morning News, 08/26/2013
"OSHA Proposes To Halve Silica Dust Exposure Limit"
"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Obama administration officials on Friday proposed to update the federal government's 42-year-old exposure limits for silica dust, a move the Labor Department said would prevent 700 deaths and 1,600 new cases of silicosis every year. The proposal would provide new protections for 2.2 million American workers, cutting in half the legal limit for dust exposure on the job."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 08/26/2013
"Massive Rim Fire Continues To Reshape Lives And Topography"
"The blaze, now 134,000 acres, pushes into Yosemite National Park. Each day, what it does depends on the wind."
Source: LA Times, 08/26/2013
"Limit Urged for Cancer-Causing Chromium in California Drinking Water"
"California public health officials suggest limiting hexavalent chromium in drinking water to 10 parts per billion. Environmentalists say that's not nearly strict enough."
Source: LA Times, 08/23/2013
Drought Brings Tough Times for Texas Rice Farms and Visiting Ducks
"Ronald Gertson usually plants about 3,000 acres of rice each year on his family farm in Wharton County, Texas. But because of emergency water regulations set in 2012 due to central Texas' painfully persistent drought, Gertson could plant about 40 percent of that land."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/23/2013
"Bringing Back the Night: the Fight Against Light Pollution"
"As evidence mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet."
Source: YaleE360, 08/23/2013
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