Daily Happenings from poetsareangels

1. Portland boil water alert: Advisory is cancelled, but questions persist

2. Upgrading Sacramento’s wastewater treatment could cost $2 billion

3. State may intervene in Long Beach’s case against BNSF rail yard project

4. Dan River cleanup stirs ingenuity

5. Frisco residents say odor, dust from industrial plants ruining neighborhood

6. Oregon counties ban genetically modified crops

7. Fifty-two countries join ‘March against Monsanto’

Over 400 cities in 52 countries joined the March Against Monsanto yesterday with as many as a million people, or more, joining the global protest.

8. Henderson now ‘a lot smarter’ after era of toxic production

9. Polluted groundwater seeping into the Bound Brook, posing costly cleanup challenges

10. Rosedale train explosion still being felt by local businesses one year later

Millions of dollars in damages claimed in litigation tied to CSX derailment

11. Soccer coach: Could artificial turf be causing cancer?

12. Your Food Is Poisoning You

For years, an underground movement has claimed that the very food we eat—by virtue of the pesticides and herbicides we so commonly use—is poisoning us. Until now, they’ve been (at best) ignored and (more often than not) mocked. Suddenly though, it looks like the joke has been on us all along.