"French Nuclear Power Plant Explosion Heightens Safety Fears"
"An explosion sparked a fire at a French nuclear power station on Saturday, just two days after the authorities found 32 safety concerns at the plant."
Source: Guardian, 07/06/2011
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"White House Study Explains Why GOP Targets EPA"
"The Environmental Protection Agency has become a target of House Republicans and of GOP presidential hopefuls. They say its rules are job killers. A new White House report finds air pollution rules from the EPA cost far more than other government regulations. But they also result in far more benefits than other government mandates."
Source: NPR, 07/06/2011
"Imported Fish with Banned Chemicals Reaching U.S. Consumers"
"Tons of imported fish laced with chemicals banned from the U.S. food supply, including carcinogens, are routinely showing up in this country and, state officials say, winding up on American dinner plates."
Source: FairWarning, 07/06/2011
"Battling an Ancient Scourge, With Satellites And Sari Cloth"
"The world has seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to have come to stay. Rising temperatures and a stubbornly persistent, toxic bacteria strain appear to have given the disease the upper hand."
Source: Daily Climate, 07/06/2011
"Fukushima Residents Dump Radiated Soil in Absence of Clean-Up Plan"
"More than three months after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear meltdown at a nearby power plant, Fukushima residents are scrambling to cope with contamination on their own in the absence of a long-term plan from the government."
Source: Reuters, 07/05/2011
"Two Scouts Want Palm Oil Out Of Famous Cookies"
"A lot of adult environmentalists have been trying for years to focus attention on tropical rain forests in southeast Asia, but it took two teenagers to get the issue on the front page of a national newspaper and on the network news."
Source: NPR, 07/05/2011
"Los Alamos Evacuation Order Lifted; 12,000 Go Home"
"Honking horns and waving to firefighters, residents of a New Mexico city threatened by a massive wildfire rolled back into Los Alamos nearly a week after flames forced an evacuation and the closure of a nearby major nuclear weapons laboratory."
Source: AP, 07/05/2011
"Huge Rare Earth Deposits Found In Pacific: Report"
"Vast deposits of rare earth minerals have been discovered on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean amounting to 1,000 times those on land, media reported on Monday citing a study by Japanese researchers."
Source: Reuters, 07/05/2011
UCSF, Stanford Autism Study Shows Environmental Factors Key
"Environmental factors play a more important role in causing autism than previously assumed and, surprisingly, an even larger role than genetics, according to a new study out of UCSF and Stanford that could force a dramatic swing in the focus of research into the developmental disorder."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/05/2011
Drought in East Africa Prompts Calls To Address Humanitarian Emergency
"Aid agencies have launched multimillion-pound appeals to address a mounting humanitarian emergency in east Africa, where severe drought and high food prices have left 10 million people requiring assistance."
Source: Guardian, 07/05/2011
