"Unexploded Bombs Lurk Off US Coast"
"Disposed World War II explosives and munitions in the Gulf of Mexico pose a threat to offshore oil drilling, according to Texas oceanographers."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/01/2012
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"Swift Action Needed To Save World's Declining Fisheries -- Study"
"Swift action is required to save many of the world's fisheries that are declining faster than expected, a study in a leading scientific journal shows."
Source: Reuters, 10/01/2012
"Resort’s Snow Won’t Be Pure This Year; It’ll Be Sewage"
"FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He has chained himself to excavators; he has faced down bulldozers. For 10 years, the soft-spoken activist has fought a ski resort’s expansion plans in the San Francisco Peaks that include clear-cutting 74 acres of forest and piping treated sewage effluent onto a mountain to make snow."
Source: NY Times, 09/28/2012
"Rats Harmed By Great-Grandmothers' Dioxin Exposure, Study Finds"
"Pregnant rats exposed to an industrial pollutant passed on a variety of diseases to their unexposed great-grandkids, according to a study published Wednesday."
Source: EHN, 09/28/2012
"EU Wind Capacity Hits 100 Gigawatt Mark: Industry"
"Installed EU wind capacity has reached the 100 gigawatt mark - the equivalent of power generated from 39 nuclear plants or a train of coal stretching from Buenos Aires to Brussels - but financial risk threatens growth, industry body EWEA said."
Source: Reuters, 09/28/2012
"Sewage Pollution Still Fouling Waterways As Clean Water Act Turns 40"
"BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- With each steady stroke, John Lipscomb inched the canoe deeper into an infamous urban waterway. The water surrounding the boat grew increasingly murky; the sulphuric stench more offensive."
Source: Huffington Post, 09/28/2012
"Carson's 'Silent Spring' Spurred Environmental Movement"
"Rachel Carson wasn't someone you'd expect to spark a movement. She was a quiet, petite woman who grew up poor, lived most of her life with her mother and relished solitary walks along the beach, watching birds and fish. Yet 50 years ago Thursday, this marine biologist published Silent Spring, widely credited with spurring the modern environmental movement."
Source: USA TODAY, 09/28/2012
"Environmentalists Get Vocal on Obama, Romney Silence on Climate Change"
"A handful of environmental groups are amplifying calls Thursday for President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to speak up on climate change after a summer of devastating drought, fires, storms and heat."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 09/28/2012
Utah Mine Operator Settles $949,000 in Fines for Fatal 2007 Collapse
"SALT LAKE CITY -- The operator of the Utah mine that collapsed in 2007, killing nine people, has reached a $949,351 settlement with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration over safety violations."
Source: AP, 09/28/2012
"Vt. Begins Shipping Radioactive Waste To Texas"
"MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Nearly 20 years after the Vermont and Texas Legislatures first agreed to have Vermont ship low-level radioactive waste to the Lone Star State, the first shipments of waste have been made."
Source: AP, 09/28/2012
