Abandoned Texas Oil Wells Seen As "Ticking Time Bombs" Of Contamination
"Texas is among several states grappling with a surge of abandoned drilling sites and dwindling funds to clean them up."
Source: Texas Tribune, 12/23/2016
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"EPA Turns Away from CAFO Water Pollution"
"Federal inspections of cattle and hog feedlots, turkey houses, and other animal feeding operations dropped for a fourth consecutive year, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data. The number of fines and orders to change management practices for those same facilities fell for a fifth consecutive year."
Source: Circle of Blue, 12/23/2016
"New Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection"
"In a scientific triumph that will change the way the world fights a terrifying killer, an experimental Ebola vaccine tested on humans in the waning days of the West African epidemic has been shown to provide 100 percent protection against the lethal disease."
Source: NY Times, 12/23/2016
Calif. City Wins $22 Million Vs. Shell Oil Over Toxic Drinking Water
"The city of Clovis won its more than three-month-long civil trial against chemical manufacturing giant Shell Oil Co. over the cleanup of a toxic chemical found in drinking-water wells around the city of 108,000 people."
Source: Fresno Bee, 12/23/2016
Climate Scientists Launch Anonymous Hotline To Report Trump Meddling
"The Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has established a hotline for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees to report political meddling. There’s currently concern among NOAA scientists about who Trump’s pick to head the agency will be."
Source: Quartz, 12/23/2016
"New Mexico Officials Approve Re-Opening Of Nuclear Waste Site"
"New Mexico has given its approval to resume operations at the nation's only permanent nuclear waste disposal site after state inspectors found the facility safe to reopen for the first time since a radiation leak there nearly three years ago, officials said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 12/23/2016
"What You Should Know About Environmental Racism"
"Fighting for the environment and fighting against racism and classism are sometimes the same exact fight."
Source: Teen Vogue, 12/22/2016
New Test Spots Human Form of Mad Cow Disease with 100 Percent Accuracy
"Blood screening technology may be able to diagnose infections before symptoms emerge".
"Eating beef from an animal infected with mad cow disease can lead to an untreatable condition that attacks the brain and is universally fatal, but symptoms can take decades to emerge. Thankfully, a new blood-screening technology can spot the condition, known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with 100 percent accuracy, perhaps years before it attacks.
Source: Scientific American, 12/22/2016
"Energy Dept. Offers $2B Loan To Louisiana. Carbon-Storage Project"
"The Energy Department said Wednesday it is offering a conditional, $2 billion loan guarantee to capture and store carbon dioxide at a planned Louisiana methanol plant, the latest element of President Obama’s strategy to slow global warming."
Source: AP, 12/22/2016
"Jury Orders DuPont To Pay $2M In C-8 Case"
"A federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, has ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to Kenneth Vigneron, concluding exposure to a toxic chemical from the company's Parkersburg, West Virginia, plant caused his testicular cancer."
Source: Wilmington News Journal, 12/22/2016
