Direct Carbon Fuel Cells Could Offer Hope for Coal
Laboratory researchers are pursuing technologies for skipping the burning of coal altogether, and producing electricity directly from carbon via fuel cells.
Source: ClimateWire, 08/27/2009
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"Cancer in Wildlife, Normally Rare, Can Signal Toxic Dangers"
"Wild animals normally are killed by cancer only in rare cases. But scientists are finding that some deadly cancers in animals--including Quebec's belugas, California sea lions and North Sea flounder--seem to be triggered or accelerated by environmental contaminants."
Source: EHN, 08/27/2009
"Water Shortage Threatens Two Million People in Southern Iraq"
"A water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq's civilisation is threatening to leave up to 2 million people in the south of the country without electricity and almost as many without drinking water."
Source: Guardian, 08/27/2009
"W.Va. Plant To Cut Storage of Deadly Chemical"
Bayer's plant at Institute, West Virginia, said that it would reduce by 80 percent its production of methyl isocyanate, the highly toxic chemical that killed thousands in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
Source: AP, 08/27/2009
Data Deficit Hampers Consumer Product Safety Commission
A new GAO report says Customs has refused to give the CPSC shipping-manifest information it has been requesting for years. The manifests are a way to track products imported into the U.S. which may have been recalled due to toxicity and/or safety issues.
Judge Orders USDA To Release Data on Wolf Program
The locations of conflicts in New Mexico and Arizona between livestock and Mexican gray wolves, which were reintroduced in 1998, will now be made public in hopes of identifying problem areas and taking preventive steps.
Info on Rare Orchid Handled Like Nuclear Secret
The Canby's bog orchid, not seen in Maryland for 20 years, has reappeared at the Nassawango Nature Preserve. A Washington Post reporter was allowed to see and write about it, but with unusual restrictions.
EPA Releases Raw TRI Data Early
The rawness of the data, which will be analyzed and revised by EPA at a later date, means that, for now, reporters will need to do more of their own ground-truthing in order to use it.
CDC Launches National Public Health Tracking Program
This data tool shows promise, but it currently tracks only non-infectious conditions and not others tied to environmental causes, such as neurological, endocrine, and reproductive disorders.
"BPA Found in Supposedly Safe Swiss Water Bottles"
Until last August, the Swiss-made reusable aluminum bottles that were an eco-icon, were lined with an epoxy containing trace amounts of BPA, which the Canadian federal government considers a toxic substance.
Source: Canwest, 08/26/2009
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