"A Small Town's Battle With Dioxin Pollution"
Nitro, West Virginia, is still struggling with the toxic legacy of a long-shuttered Monsanto weedkiller plant that has polluted soil and water with dioxin.
Source: U.S. News & World Report, 04/29/2010
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Vets Group Says Climate Change a Security Threat
A group of veterans is touring the country with the message that climate change is destabilizing countries that harbor terrorists, and that the dollars Americans spend on foreign oil are funding terrorists.
Source: Florence Morning News, 04/29/2010
"Report: Most Americans Still Live in Unclean Air"
"Six in 10 Americans -- about 175 million people -- are living in places where air pollution often reaches dangerous levels, despite progress in reducing particle pollution, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday."
Source: AP, 04/29/2010
Climate Skeptics Charged With Science Fraud, Error
"University of Newcastle researchers relied on 'spurious' results in claiming to debunk evidence that global warming is worsening Australia's droughts, a rival team of scientists contends in the latest battle of the climate wars."
Source: Australian, 04/29/2010
"Cape Wind, First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm, Approved"
"The first U.S. offshore wind farm, a giant project 5 miles off the Massachusetts coast, was approved on Wednesday after years of opposition involving everyone from local Indian tribes to the Kennedy family."
Source: Reuters, 04/29/2010
5 Times as Much Oil Spewing into Gulf as First Thought
"As a sheen of oil moved closer to the Louisiana coast Wednesday, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revised their estimates of the amount of oil that has been leaking from the oil well from 1,000 barrels a day to up to 5,000 barrels a day."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/29/2010
Surefire Stories Near You: Start with Superfund Data Tools
US EPA's "National Priorities List" includes about 1,280 of the nation's worst sites. But there are tens of thousands of sites not on the NPL, and finding them is fairly easy.
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Boaters and Fishers Pay Taxes, Get Rewards
Dept. of Interior/US Fish and Wildlife Service awards $12 million for construction of docks, boat slips, and other recreational boating facilities at 13 locations in 10 states.
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Several More States and Provinces Hit by Fatal Bat Disease
Bat losses can have major impacts on ecosystems, as they routinely consume large quantities of insects and themselves provide food and nutrients for other plants and animals. There also are economic impacts as caves close to recreational use, in an effort to combat the spread of the disease.
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Mines in 21 States Outed for Habitual Safety Violations
The 48 mines are also linked by the fact that most of their owners have been legally delaying action on the violations through appeals of the citations. The Mine Safety and Health Administration is faced with a backlog of approximately 16,000 appeals.
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