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Sunday, February 14, 2010

environmental news story sunday

for the news that won't be seen on today's infotainment talking head shows...but news that we need to know...and discuss. to quote a canadian comedian (funny how many canadian comics are out there...) " i'm getting verklempt. talk amongst yourselves."

weed killer in the crosshairs. - in recent years, questions have surfaced about atrazine’s safety, especially after monitoring programs picked up the chemical in drinking water and lab studies demonstrated the pollutant’s ability to emasculate - if not deform - amphibians and fish. - science news

bernalillo’s water treatment system dumps sludge into drinking water. - a year after the town of bernalillo spent at least $4.9 million to equip its two active wells with new arsenic filtration systems designed by bernalillo-based ars-usa, residents started complaining about a white residue in their tap water. - new mexico independent

manchin to epa: leave our coal ash alone. - gov. joe manchin has thrown in with the coal operators and power companies who oppose any move by the u.s. environmental protection agency to declare toxic ash from coal-fired power plants to be a hazardous waste - charleston gazette

keep food and farms safe: ban use of sludge. - sludge stinks. it's been one of my soapbox issues since 1994, when i wrote about a greenwich township farmer who was forced to give up his plan to apply sewage sludge to two fields. Scary words appeared in my research. pathogens. carcinogens. heavy metals. - reading eagle

do what it takes to get arsenic out of the water. - here we are, a decade after epa's new arsenic standard was set and four years after the deadline to take action, and we still have thousands of east valley residents at risk. - palm springs desert sun

tritium: vermont's nuclear nightmare. - what happens next will be defined by fierce grassroots activism crashing into a flood of corporate money in support of a rickety old reactor being operated with increasing recklessness. - pacific free press

spent ammo's harm to environment is debated. - lead in paint, gasoline and drinking water is prohibited as dangerous for health and the environment. but tons of lead from ammunition can accumulate on the ground over years. no federal law addresses lead containment at outdoor shooting ranges - nashville tennessean

feinstein water plan puts boxer in a bind in central valley. - sen. dianne feinstein has just complicated sen. barbara boxer's search for san joaquin valley voters. by announcing plans to override scientists and boost irrigation deliveries, feinstein gratified valley farmers and the region's farm-friendly lawmakers - fresno bee

water-gulping companies' risk disclosures run dry: report. - most publicly traded companies that depend on water do not adequately disclose their financial risks to droughts and future regulations, even as water scarcity problems mount, according to a report released on thursday. - reuters

report: 38 per cent of land faces desertification. - over a third of the world's land could be turned into desert, according to a new report published in the international journal of life cycle assessment that warns increased rates of desertification could have a huge impact on global food and water supplies - london business green

bark beetles' song could save forests. - researchers at northern arizona university think they may have found an environmentally safe and readily available weapon against the tree-eating armies of bark beetles. - phoenix arizona republic

n.j. environmental groups accuse gov. christie of 'raiding' funds for clean air, water. - state environmental groups today accused gov. chris christie of attacking the environment by "raiding" the state’s clean energy fund, the highlands council budget and other coffers dedicated to clean air and water protections. - newark star ledger

marine base's ex-residents – many ill – only now learning of toxic water. - some estimates are that over a 30-year period, as many as 1 million people were exposed to well water that contained trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, benzene and vinyl chloride. - mcclatchy

washington's snowstorms, brought to you by global warming. - can you sit in a snowstorm and imagine a warming world? if you're a senator, can you come back to work and pass a bill that blunts the pace of climate change? if the answer is no, then we're really in a world of trouble. - wapo

microsoft co-founder gates tackling climate change. - microsoft co-founder bill gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease to take on another threat to the world's poor -- climate change. - afp

pollution creating acid oceans. - the world's oceans are becoming acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the last 65 million years, threatening marine life and food supplies across the globe, according to a new study - london daily telegraph

algae to solve the pentagon's jet fuel problem. - a cheap, low-carbon fuel would not only help the us military, the nation's single largest consumer of energy, to wean itself off its oil addiction, but would also hold the promise of low-carbon driving and flying for all - london guardian

olympics 2012 site may be built on top of radioactive waste. - the entire 2012 olympics site has been built on top of a thin plastic sheet less than 3 feet ­beneath the surface to separate the soil from the ground below that could be heavily ­contaminated with asbestos and radioactive materials - london daily express

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