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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Tobacco poison surrounds child workers. A Sunday Times investigation in the southern African state of Malawi has uncovered an environmental travesty that is being inflicted by the tobacco industry on some of the continent’s poorest people. London Times, United Kingdom. New fears of 3M chemicals. Three new studies show a link between Scotchgard-type chemicals in ground water and high cholesterol in human blood. 3M says its studies have shown no such a link. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota. Frisco plant exceeds new limit on lead levels. Even with no expansion, airborne lead levels around the 45-year-old vehicle battery recycler owned by Exide Technology are among the highest measured anywhere in the country. Dallas Morning News, Texas. 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. 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. Falluja's babies: The difficulties of pinning the blame. War's effects on health can be much harder to identify than death and horrendous physical injuries. London Guardian, United Kingdom. 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 [Registration Required] What’s killing the bats? At least 1 million have died in the past three years from a mysterious disease, posing serious questions for our environment. But one Boston University biologist is leading the hunt for answers. Boston Globe, Massachusetts. Las Brisas testimony complex; decision likely to take months. Two judges have reams of testimony to consider in the Las Brisas Energy Center air permit case. At stake is a permit that would allow it to begin construction and eventually to emit pollutants such as mercury and particulate matter. Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Texas. Climate change catastrophe took just months. Six months is all it took to flip Europe’s climate from warm and sunny into the last ice age, researchers have found. The northern hemisphere was plunged into a big freeze 12,800 years ago by a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream that allowed ice to spread hundreds of miles southwards from the Arctic. London Times, United Kingdom. World leaders agree to delay a deal on climate change. President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month. New York Times [Registration Required] High stakes in Appalachia as greens battle Big Coal. The plan was painfully simple: save a mountain, turn a country, cool the Earth. And for the longest time, it seemed to be working here on Coal River Mountain, ground zero in the American debate over climate change. Toronto Star, Ontario. Uranium renaissance. The U.S. and several other countries are gearing up to build a potentially massive fleet of new nuclear reactors, in part to fight climate change. The boom will affect Wyoming's economy and environment. Gillette News-Record, Wyoming. Heavy metal - with dental fillings, it's a question of mercury amalgam vs. composite. About 10 years ago, Kay Meyer lost 60 pounds when she developed severe food allergies. She couldn't think clearly, suffered from severe headaches and chronic fatigue. Waterville Morning Sentinel, Maine. So you want a green career? Although the recession has emptied shopping malls and filled jobless centers, the call has only gotten louder for renewable energy, environmentally gentle products and eco-friendly practices -- and for people to make all of that happen. Los Angeles Times, California. [Registration Required] Fate of 'Easterly's pile' at ArcelorMittal remains unknown. The heaping mounds of metallic-gray, lumpy steelmaking waste and rusty metal pieces tower up to 35 feet in the air, spread across a 33-acre sandy area in the northeast corner of ArcelorMittal's Burns Harbor property. Merrillville Post-Tribune, Indiana. Battle lines forming between EPA, state environmental agency. By the end of the month, the federal Environmental Protection Agency will probably declare that Texas' air permitting program lacks adequate public participation and transparency. Austin American-Statesman, Texas. [Registration Required] US health agency to take 'fresh look' at Vieques. A U.S. agency has overturned its 2003 research that said no health hazards were caused by decades of military exercises on Vieques, a bombing range-turned-tourist destination off Puerto Rico's east coast. Associated Press Cold War missile sites targeted. Twenty-one Cold War era former Atlas missile sites and five former Nike missile sites in Kansas are part of the Formerly Utilized Defense Sites program sponsored by the Department of Defense to evaluate and remediate trichloroethylene contamination in groundwater and soil. Topeka Capital-Journal, Kansas. 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Sunday, November 15, 2009
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