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Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Street farmer. Like others in the good-food movement, Will Allen asserts that our industrial food system is poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and stuffing us with bad calories, and advocates eating locally. But to Allen, local means 14 greenhouses crammed in a working-class neighborhood on Milwaukee’s NW side. New York Times [Registration Required] Pollution worries? EPA assesses high cancer risk, but many residents are unconcerned. On June 24 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment showing one neighborhood in Granite City had the second-highest cancer risk in the country. St. Louis Suburban Journals, Missouri. In N.C., a dozen coal-ash ponds threaten lives. Six months after a dam burst near a power plant in Tennessee, spilling more than 5 million cubic yards of ashy sludge across the countryside, much of the disaster's nastiness still lingers. Raleigh News & Observer, North Carolina. Marine spouse battles navy over contamination at naval base in Japan. Shelly Parulis, wife of a retired Marine Master Sergeant, is engaged in a running battle with the Navy over dioxin and other contaminants at a US naval facility in Atsugi, Japan, where she and up to 70,000 others were exposed to the exhaust plume of a waste incinerator. Salem News, Oregon. EPA temporarily bans pesticides near S.F. Bay Area endangered species habitat. The US EPA last week announced a tentative settlement agreement to temporarily ban the use of 74 pesticides in habitat set aside for 11 imperiled species in eight San Francisco Bay Area counties. Contra Costa Times, California. SoCal Asian communities aim to weed out toxic fish. The white croaker has become a popular catch in local Asian communities. But when reeled in off a stretch of California's coastline southwest of Los Angeles, the fish has been laced with cancer-causing contaminants stored from decades of chemical dumps near the scenic shore. Associated Press Refiners target countries with lax environmental laws. Sprawling, polluting and less lucrative than oil and natural gas wells, refineries have been seen as necessary but unsavoury. As concerns over climate change grow, the industry is under fire for its high greenhouse gas emissions. Abu Dhabi National, United Arab Emirates. T. Boone Pickens fueling clean-energy efforts. Last July, T. Boone Pickens, the oilman-turned-environmentalist, proposed a seemingly simple plan: Convert cars, especially big fleets operated by companies and municipalities, from gasoline to domestic natural gas. And start generating more electricity from wind. Dallas Morning News, Texas. Wind power has its own environmental problems. Wind power generation is expected to be a clean and environmentally friendly natural energy source, but a new kind of environmental problem has surfaced as infrasonic waves caused by windmills are suspected of causing health problems for some people. Osaka Daily Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan. It was tough going green. Oregon, the state that invented the bottle bill, couldn’t get an ambitious expansion through the Legislature this year, and the governor’s grand plans for creating a Western carbon market to combat global warming flopped. Associated Press Cañon City residents fear risk of former mill's radioactivity. Under pressure from Coloradans, the US EPA has launched a review of radon emission standards at uranium-processing facilities. The EPA will reassess the health risks of radon emissions and consider tightening the national standard. Denver Post, Colorado. Family members facing asbestos charges. Four members of a Utica family have become ensnared in a U.S. Attorney’s Office investigation of questionable asbestos removal procedures, illegal dumping, and fraudulent paperwork in many locations, including homes, schools and a medical center. Utica Observer-Dispatch, New York. Disinfecting could make you sick. Advertisers cashing in on a newly germ-phobic nation may be doing more harm than good, say public health officials. Disinfectants, sanitizers, and other products promising to rid homes of "99.9% of bacteria" could actually be exposing us to nastier bugs, experts say. Auckland Sunday Star Times, New Zealand. Wayne Metal cleanup inches nearer. Nearly five years after toxic chemicals were found moving toward a middle school, the company causing the contamination has a plan to clean it up. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Indiana. California water plan could help Puget Sound orcas survive. A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches from California to Alaska. Bellingham Herald, Washington. Lack of biodiversity may make us sicker. With ecological collapse, the rapid proliferation of disease agents is only half of the gruesome picture; the other is the demise of nonthreatening species. Newsweek Kruger Park’s gorge of death. Kruger National Park authorities and environmental scientists are racing against the clock to identify the cause of a disease killing the reserve’s crocodiles. Researchers analysed water, sediments, and fish and crocodile tissue for potential toxins and chemical compounds. Johannesburg Sunday Times, South Africa. Coping with a toxic world. There are some 80,000 man-made chemicals in the industrial environment, but only a handful of them - lead, mercury manganese, acrylamide, organophosphates, heavy metals and organic solvents - have been fully tested for potential health risks, toxicology experts warned. Jerusalem Post, Israel. More news from today Shortcuts to stories from today about The good news, Avian flu, Katrina, Climate, Children's health, Air pollution, Cancer, Reproductive disorders, Endocrine disruption, Birth defects, Learning and developmental disabilities, Immune disorders, Environmental justice, Superfund, Water treatment/sewage, Food safety, Integrity of science, Green chemistry. You can also read last weekend's news. Plus: If you were on vacation last week, don't miss last week's top stories... Would you like to display the news stories from EnvironmentalHealthNews.org on your own web site? Check out our RSS feeds. Compiled by Environmental Health Sciences | |
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