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Atty: Non-poultry sources could have tainted water.
A scientist testified that runoff from fields spread with poultry manure accounted for a major portion of phosphorus pollution in a sensitive northeastern Oklahoma watershed. Associated Press. 19 November 2009.
Women central to adaptation, mitigation.
Poor women will bear the greatest ‘climate burden’, says the United Nations Population Fund. The report emphasises that climate change is more than an issue of energy efficiency or industrial carbon emissions; it is also an issue of population dynamics, poverty and gender equity. Inter Press Service. 19 November 2009.
Doctors prescribe government action for climate change.
Senior physicians from New Zealand Climate and Health on Thursday presented MPs with a giant prescription for action on climate change for long-term health and introduce an emissions trading scheme that is not subsidised by taxpayers. New Zealand Press Association, New Zealand. 19 November 2009.
Company withdraws plans to burn toxic waste from Mexico.
A disposal company has withdrawn its controversial plan to import toxic wastes from Mexico and burn them at its incinerator just outside Port Arthur. Houston Chronicle, Texas. 19 November 2009.
Climate change deal must aim to help women.
Women bear the brunt of drought, rising seas, melting glaciers and other effects of climate change but are mostly ignored in the debate over how to halt it, the United Nations Population Fund said on Wednesday. Scientific American. 18 November 2009.
Obama, Hu pledge cooperation.
President Obama met with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, for wide-ranging talks on the challenges facing their two countries. The two discussed pursuing a more balanced economic strategy and cooperating on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. All Things Considered, NPR. 18 November 2009.
Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets.
The US and China, the world's two biggest polluters, today said they aimed to set targets for easing greenhouse gas emissions next month, potentially breathing new life into the flagging Copenhagen climate negotiations. London Guardian, United Kingdom. 18 November 2009.
Manila warned on population.
The United Nations has reiterated its warning to countries with rapid population growth such as the Philippines to adopt reproductive-health policies to prevent their populations from suffering a harsher impact of disasters linked to climate change. BusinessMirror, Philippines. 18 November 2009.
The economics of ecosystems.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity report for Policymakers belongs to a broader, ongoing effort to correct what ecological economists say is a failure in most cost-benefit analyses to adequately account for the very real value of living systems. Christian Science Monitor. Opinion, 17 November 2009.
Dumping ash, and cash, on Perry County.
About a mile north of Ruby Holmes' house, a long line of open container railroad cars caterpillared into a 1,000-acre landfill site. Many days, 85 or 110 cars bring in coal ash from Kingston, Tenn., each carrying 105 tons of moist ash sealed in thick plastic material. Birmingham News, Alabama. 15 November 2009.
Ecuador's Amazonians sue Chevron over poison waterways.
Tens of thousands of Ecuadoreans living in the Amazon rainforest are suing Chevron, the US oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental lawsuits in history. London Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom. 15 November 2009.
Forest people may lose home in Kenyan plan.
Officials are gearing up to evict tens of thousands from the Mau Forest, in a government conservation effort that has raised suspicion. New York Times. 15 November 2009.
Superfund lawsuit near settlement.
More than 20 years after contaminated water first was discovered in 10 homeowners’ wells, a consent agreement that outlines the final phase of the cleanup of a former waste oil disposal site has been filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor. Bangor Daily News, Maine. 14 November 2009.
Adult smoking rises in U.S. for first time since 1994.
Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent. Associated Press. 13 November 2009.
Expert: Recreation on Illinois River has declined.
About 30,000 fewer people floated in the Illinois River watershed in 2007 compared with two years earlier, a professor testified Tuesday, suggesting that decades of chicken manure pollution may have made one of the state's top recreational areas less attractive to the public. Associated Press. 11 November 2009.
Settlement reached St. Maries creosote Superfund cleanup.
More than $12 million is expected to be spent to clean up a Superfund site near the town of St. Maries, in Northern Idaho. Federal officials for two agencies released plans for the cleanup project on Tuesday. Idaho Business Review, Idaho. 11 November 2009.
Report casts doubt on MD's claims about Alberta reserve's cancer rates.
He's one of Alberta's most famous whistleblowers, but a new report casts doubt on Dr. John O'Connor's crusade to expose unusually high rare cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, a small community downstream from the province's massive oil sands. Toronto Globe and Mail, Ontario. 9 November 2009.
Mexican environmentalists outraged over ruling on Cancun beach restoration.
Nonprofit groups said a ruling by a Mexican judge that required environmentalists to post a $1.1 million bond will make it hard or impossible for them to defend environmental causes in court. Associated Press. 8 November 2009.
Rail yard held hidden peril.
Like a Trojan horse, the San Bernardino rail yard carried a hidden peril. Diesel soot from locomotives and big rigs converging on the 165-acre site brought toxic chemicals and dangerous particles that penetrate deep into the lungs. Riverside Press-Enterprise, California. 8 November 2009.
Salinas Valley schools perched near pesticide-sprayed farmland.
While the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner's office often restricts pesticide use near sensitive locations, such as schools, beyond what the law requires, some worry the limits aren't enough. Salinas Californian, California. 7 November 2009.
Sounding the trumpet.
It takes a lot to frighten Albertha Hasten, a campaigner for poor citizens of Louisiana, and fellow African-Americans, who suffer disproportionately from contaminated air, water and soil. She fears that this group is going to be threatened again by rising sea levels and hurricanes as a result of climate change. Economist. 7 November 2009.
Judges exclude all evidence about economic impact from Las Brisas hearing.
Judges threw out all evidence about Las Brisas Energy Center’s economic impact Friday after a contentious morning of testimony in which a local physician debated the subject with the proposed plant’s lead attorney. Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Texas. 7 November 2009.
Dominican town blames U.S. power company AES for birth defects.
A civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware charges that toxic levels of coal ash waste generated by Virginia-based AES Corp. and dumped at the Arroyo Barril port in the Dominican Republic has resulted in miscarriages and babies with cranial deformities, organs outside their bodies, and missing limbs. Miami Herald, Florida. 6 November 2009.
Climate insurance is in the cross hairs in negotiations for Copenhagen.
The United States is being accused of trying to "kill" a prominent global warming provision that would create a massive insurance program for countries that face rising destruction from natural disasters. It would cost the U.S. and other developed nations billions every year. ClimateWire. 6 November 2009.
'You will not be forgotten,' Obama tells tribal leaders.
President Obama told hundreds of tribal leaders at an Interior Department summit today that he knows what it means to feel ignored and forgotten, pledging to work with them on issues including energy development and climate change. Greenwire. 6 November 2009.
Public may not get a say at oil leak inquiry.
An inquiry into the 10-week West Atlas oil rig spill will have the same powers as a royal commission, but there is no guarantee of public hearings. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 6 November 2009.
Water use stirs passions in Bolivia.
Turmoils brew in Bolivia as a group of Quechua Indians demand to be paid for water that runs off their land, but is the main water source of the impoverished country's fourth-largest city. Reuters. 6 November 2009.
Climate migration will grow as changes take hold - experts.
As the effects of climate change take hold around the world, countries, research institutions and international agencies are debating how to handle what is expected to become a trickle and perhaps eventually a flood of climate migrants. Reuters. 5 November 2009.
Green beliefs win legal protection.
Employees who raise concerns about their company's environmental practices won the right to legal redress yesterday after a judge ruled that green beliefs deserved the same protection in the workplace as religious convictions. London Independent, United Kingdom. 5 November 2009.
Trying to rebuild after 40 frozen years.
A 1966 ban on development in a disputed tribal area left many Navajo living in third-world conditions--or forced them out entirely. When the freeze ended, many residents didn't know where to begin. Los Angeles Times, California. 5 November 2009.
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