"EPA Proposes Regulations To Cut Ship Pollution"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tougher rules to reduce air pollution from large oceangoing ships, including oil tankers and cargo vessels."
Source: AP, 07/02/2009
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Bill Seeks To Protect Drinking Wells from Fracking
"A bill introduced earlier this month would bring federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing fluids -- chemical mixtures pumped at high pressure into oil and gas wells in order to unlock deposits trapped deep underground."
Source: NYTimes, 07/01/2009
"Poisoned Patriots"
"From 1957 to 1987, hundreds of thousands of unprepared men, women and children who lived on or near Camp Lejeune, N.C., the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast, were the unwitting victims of a decades-long water contamination disaster that is still claiming lives."
Source: NRNS, 07/01/2009
Florida Lets Sewage Sludge Foul Everglades: Critics
Environmentalists say Florida officials are thwarting a 2-year-old law banning the spreading of sewage sludge on the Everglades.
Source: Orlando Sentinel, 06/30/2009
"Air Has Elevated Cancer Risk in 600 Neighborhoods"
"People living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: AP, 06/24/2009
"Tracing Mercury's Transit to Coastal Environments"
On a global average, the amount of mercury falling out of the sky has tripled since the Industrial Revolution, primarily because of the burning of fossil fuels. Although this atmospheric deposition has long been considered the key vector for the widespread contamination of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, some scientists are focusing on another potential source: subterranean flows of terrestrial groundwater.
Source: ES&T, 06/23/2009
"Ozone Solution Poses a Growing Climate Threat"
"A group of chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, long hailed as a substitute for gases that can destroy the ozone layer, are now seen as a growing greenhouse threat given their outsize ability to warm the atmosphere."
Source: NYTimes, 06/23/2009
Weed Killer 'Inert' Kills Human Cells
An inert ingredient in the popular weedkiller Roundup has been found to kill human cells.
Source: EHN, 06/23/2009
"DOD, Defense Contractors Lobby to Block Perchlorate Advisory"
"The Pentagon and the defense industry is lobbying the White House to prevent U.S. EPA from tightening a health advisory for a rocket-fuel chemical."
Source: Greenwire, 06/23/2009
BPA May Cause Heart Disease in Women
"A study released this week by researchers at the University of Cincinnati says that exposure to bisphenol A may increase heart disease in women."
Source: AlterNet, 06/22/2009
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