"Iowa Utilities Board Approves Huge Wind Energy Project"
"The Iowa Utilities Board has approved a wind turbine operation it says will be the nation's largest wind energy project."
Source: AP, 08/29/2016
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"CSB: Mission Impossible -- Deadly Accidents, No Answers"
"Early on a Saturday morning, deep inside a chemical plant in La Porte, Javier Ortiz took his last sip of coffee."
Source: Houston Chronicle, 08/29/2016
Wisconsin: "High Rate Of Tumors Found In Fish"
"Scientists led by researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey have found an elevated number of cases of skin and liver tumors in white suckers in the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers — a discovery that suggests more work will be needed to remove contaminants from the waterways."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 08/29/2016
"Coal Country Is Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Pledge to Help"
"As Kevin Widener was growing up on his family’s tobacco farm in the rolling hills of southwest Virginia in the 1990s, lawmakers and lawyers in Washington were waging a war on smoking."
Source: NY Times, 08/29/2016
"Tropical Depression Swirling Off Florida Threatens Heavy Rain"
"Florida was getting set for a soaking as a tropical depression brewing off its southern coast looked likely to strengthen into tropical storm later Monday or early Tuesday."
Source: NBC News, 08/29/2016
"All Donated Blood in U.S. Should Be Tested for Zika, F.D.A. Says"
"The Food and Drug Administration on Friday took steps to safeguard the nation’s blood supply from the Zika virus, calling for all blood banks to screen donations for the infection even in states where the virus is not circulating."
Source: NY Times, 08/29/2016
"Streams On Speed Altering Aquatic Food Web"
"Study finds a cocktail of legal and illegal drugs in Baltimore's Gwynns Falls, most likely from city's leaking sewers".
Source: Bay Journal, 08/26/2016
"Report Details Lead Contamination In Water At St. Louis Schools"
"ST. LOUIS -- Water samples from 16 schools in the city school system contained lead levels that exceeded those most commonly found in homes in Flint, Mich., after a contamination crisis there, according to results released Thursday by an environmental engineering company."
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 08/26/2016
"Health And Neighborhood Are Too Often Linked." Change Effort Mounted
"Across the U.S. people are trying to reduce inequities in how environment affects physical well-being".
Source: Ensia, 08/26/2016
Environmentalists Sue Interior Over Oil, Gas Leasing on Federal Lands
"Environmental groups launched a broad assault today on federal oil and gas leasing, accusing the Obama administration of ignoring the climate impacts from leasing on hundreds of thousands of acres since early 2015."
Source: Greenwire, 08/26/2016
