7,000 turkeys die when 62-year-old family farm burns
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1. 9 things that make air pollution bearable
2. Dilemma for Delaware beaches’ renowned water quality
4. Why does Europe hate genetically modified food?
With new European Union rules that now seek to clear up years of internal deadlock
that could, in theory, lead to widespread cultivation of GM foods, is Europe about to
change its mind?
5. Sauget Superfund cleanup draws in nearly 250 companies
6. UK NEWS: Diesel fumes choke Tox-ford Street
7. Great Lakes welcome rising water levels
Great Lakes are rising, and the tourism and shipping industries are celebrating
8. Billionaire Koch brothers are big oil players in Alberta
The ultra-right U.S. Koch brothers, little-known to Canadians, are major players in Alberta’s
oil patch, where they control at least 1.1 million acres.
9. Movement targets fossil fuel divestiture
Religious and liberal groups see environment as a ‘moral issue’
10. California rice farmers could get pollution credit
1. Dengue cases quintupled in one decade in Latin America
2. Obama lends support to EPA’s upcoming power plant rule
3. Lung-cancer risks sky high for smokers exposed to carcinogens
4. Environmentalists warn fire retardant may have toxic consequences
At least 141,000 gallons of fire retardant dropped
5. Exposure to smoke in cars may worsen asthma: study
6. $2 Billion Plan to Restore Everglades Stuck in Congressional Limbo
The plan aims to reverse much of the 20th-century draining of the Everglades.
7. Emissions:
Regulations 101 — a primer on EPA’s upcoming power plant rule
| Top 10 CO2-emitting power plants in the U.S. | |
| Power Plant | Annual CO2 emissions (Mt) |
| Plant Scherer Juliette, Ga. |
21,809,922 |
| James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant Quinton, Ala. |
18,552,161 |
| Rockport Generating Station Rockport, Ind. |
17,890,085 |
| Gibson Generating Station Owensville, Ind. |
16,900,459 |
| General James M. Gavin Power Plant Cheshire, Ohio |
16,634,356 |
| Bruce Mansfield Power Plant Shippingport, Pa. |
16,271,444 |
| Martin Lake Power Plant Tatum, Texas |
15,548,912 |
| Navajo Generating Station Page, Ariz. |
15,474,761 |
| Monroe Power Plant Monroe, Mich. |
15,212,909 |
| Paradise Fossil Plant Drakesboro, Ky. |
14,932,742 |
8. Hazardous level of trace metals in Hong Kong’s air as scientists warn of health crisis
Scientists warn of potential public health crisis, with Chinese breathing in up to 20 times the amount of dangerous particles found in the US
9. Light bedrooms ‘link to obesity’
11. One Key Question on Obama’s Push Against Climate Change: Will It Matter?
Many expectations—and many unknowns—surround new carbon standards due Monday.
12. Small Farmers’ Loss of Land Increases World Hunger
13. FDA taking another look at mercury in seafood
14. Pesticide maker agrees to phase out controversial poison
15. Obama Says Climate Change Growing Threat to Health
1. Flame retardant in old couches, carpets poses health risk to kids’ IQs
2. Lung illnesses more likely near Logan Airport
Study doesn’t find higher rates of heart disease, hearing loss
3. Planes’ exhaust could be harming communities up to 10 miles from LAX
4. Global health: Deadly dinners
Polluting biomass stoves, used by one-third of the global population, take a terrible toll. But efforts to clean them up are failing.
5. Rejected Pa. drilling waste brought to W.Va.
6. Texas oil and gas regulator says it can’t link water contamination to gas drilling
7. And The Biggest Power Polluter Is: American Electric Power Company
8. Corporate stranglehold of farmland a risk to world food security, study says
Small farmers are being squeezed out as mega-farms and plantations gobble up their land
9. How much is going clean costing China?
10. Toxins in the environment may accelerate aging, study finds
1. Archaeology’s poisonous past
Most U.S. ethnographic collections are contaminated with toxins. Will new cleaning methods help tribes reclaim artifacts?
2. How Washington farmers are moving to smarter water solutions
Old-time farmers knew about protecting water supplies, and new efforts build on their ideas to cope with changing conditions.
3. Study cites possible link between drilling, health
4. As Dairy Farms Grow Bigger, New Concerns About Pollution
5. Big stakes in debate over fish consumption in Wash. state
6. Killer drug threat to Scotland’s golden eagles
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