"Pollution Takes Heavy Toll on Bay Area Children With Asthma"
"OAKLAND -- The pediatric inpatient unit was quiet, except for the deep, relentless coughing. It was the sound of asthma -- asthma out of control."
Source: Oakland Tribune, 02/11/2013
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"Do Soaps With Triclosan Do More Harm Than Good?"
"Critics call on FDA and EPA to review popular anti-microbial's safety in light of new science."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 02/11/2013
"NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite"
"If the weather holds, NASA will launch its newest Earth-observing satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California late Monday morning."
Source: Climate Central, 02/11/2013
"Minnesota Is a Hotbed for Radioactive Gas Radon"
"Officials are alarmed at the lack of awareness about the invisible gas that invades homes."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 02/11/2013
"Genetically Modified Apples Raise Concerns"
"Neal Carter wants to bring some interest and excitement to those big displays of apples in the local supermarket."
Source: Yakima Herald, 02/11/2013
"Horsemeat Scandal Blamed on International Fraud By Mafia Gangs"
"Organised criminal gangs operating internationally are suspected of playing a major role in the horsemeat scandal that has seen supermarket shelves cleared of a series of products and triggered concerns about the contamination of the UK's food chain."
Source: Guardian, 02/11/2013
"Interior Department To Investigate Coal Exports"
"The Interior Department will investigate whether mining companies are gaming the federal government by skirting royalty payments, a pair of senior senators announced Friday."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 02/11/2013
"Reflecting on an Asteroid’s Really Close Encounter with Earth"
"Amid all the progress on this planet -- declining losses from terrible diseases and war, rising literacy and the rest -- there remain plenty of planet-scale risks requiring serious focus, from pandemic flu to centuries of locked-in climate change to, yes, collisions with space rocks."
Source: Dot Earth, 02/11/2013
Farmer’s Use of GM Soybeans Grows Into Supreme Court Case
"SANDBORN, Ind. -- Farmer Hugh Bowman hardly looks the part of a revolutionary who stands in the way of promising new biotech discoveries and threatens Monsanto’s pursuit of new products it says will 'feed the world.'"
Source: Wash Post, 02/11/2013
State of Union 2013: on Climate, Which Obama Will Speak Tuesday Night?
"President Barack Obama’s annual addresses to Congress offer a glimpse at a leader whose rhetoric on energy and the environment has changed dramatically over the past four years -- from his calls to pass sweeping climate legislation in 2009 to a full-throated embrace of natural gas last year."
Source: Politico, 02/11/2013
