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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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
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 Times, South Africa. 5 July 2009.
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. 5 July 2009.
A shot at a universal flu vaccine.
Protection from the swine flu, bird flu, and other viruses may evolve from one researcher's recent discovery. US News & World Report. 5 July 2009.
'100,000 fresh swine flu cases a day by August,' says Health Secretary.
Swine flu is spreading so rapidly that the Government cannot contain it any more. The number of new cases could reach 100,000 a day by the end of August, the Health Secretary Andy Burnham warned yesterday. London Independent, United Kingdom. 5 July 2009.
Flu virus resistant to Tamiflu verified.
A mutated form of the new swine flu virus that is resistant to the drug Tamiflu was confirmed in a woman in Osaka, health officials said Thursday. It was only the second detection of such a virus in the world, following one in Denmark in late June. Asahi Shimbun, Japan. 5 July 2009.
Swine flu death toll in Argentina climbs.
The death toll from swine flu in Argentina continued to rise as President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said she would not rule out closing major public venues where the virus could spread more quickly. New York Times. 5 July 2009.
Mass transit noise may threaten passengers' hearing.
Noise from public transportation, especially subways, may be loud enough to harm some passengers' hearing, a new study suggests. Reuters Health. 5 July 2009.
Ohio frog & toad calling survey tracks amphibians' range, population.
Half the planet's 6,000 amphibian species face the threat of extinction. In a worst-case scenerio, amphibians could go the way of the dinosaurs and simply vanish from Earth, said Geoff Hall, general curator at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio. 5 July 2009.
Spanish vintners look to higher ground amid climate change.
Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat. Agence France-Presse. 5 July 2009.
Mirrors and wildebeest could save the planet.
Covering the Sahara desert with mirrors and making livestock behave like herds of wildebeest were among the proposals put forward on Saturday as ways of helping to tackle climate change. London Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom. 5 July 2009.
U.S. greenhouse-gas bill should raise red flags in Canada.
As long as Barack Obama leaves Congress to do the heavy lifting, as he has on the U.S. economic recovery act and again on climate change, he's going to get bills with add-ons, exceptions and the sideswipe effects of protectionism. Montreal Gazette, Quebec. 5 July 2009.
Sound of crickets spreads in Britain.
Entomologists are reporting that crickets are spreading across the country thanks to the warming climate, making their distinctive mating call a common sound. London Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom. 5 July 2009.
Millions hungry as warming shifts seasons.
In a new report, global aid agency Oxfam says impoverished communities like Nassapir, Uganda are already being hit hard by the effects of global warming, including increased drought. Reuters. 5 July 2009.
Asheville's role in climate change grows.
In part by using an archive of weather records stashed in Asheville's Grove Arcade, the National Climatic Data Center is shifting its mission beyond a storehouse in the federal building to a cutting-edge research center that can confidently predict climate change. Asheville Citizen-Times, North Carolina. 5 July 2009.
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