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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. The war on malaria: Mosquitoes gain ground as search for new weapons intensfies. A decade of blanketing Africa with pyrethroids has fueled resistance to this front-line chemical weapon in the war against malaria. Now immune mosquitoes are spreading quickly throughout the continent. Because of a lack of research, no new chemicals have emerged in more than 40 years. But now pesticide companies and public health agencies are trying to develop low-toxic and inexpensive – yet powerful and long-lasting – new insecticides. Environmental Health News Landmark California regulations under federal fire. Companies are going through Congress to fight California's stricter workplace, consumer and environmental laws. Gridlock and sympathetic Republicans in the House could work in their favor. Officials in Sacramento worry that some of the state's landmark laws may be in danger. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Does Lake Michigan's record-low water level mark beginning of new era for Great Lakes? Despite above-average precipitation, Lake Michigan has seen below-average water levels for 14 years running. Less ice cover and more dark open water may explain why. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. Ecobrews are a different kind of green beer. Breweries have hit upon a new ingredient for their beers: environmental messaging. Their labels sing the praises of Delaware Bay oysters, pay homage to the headwaters of the Brandywine Creek, and highlight an aquatic insect that survives only in clean water. Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania. [Registration Required] Is love affair with the car dimming among the young? Is America's love affair with the car over? Some key indicators - such as vehicle use, driver's license registration, and public-transit ridership - suggest that the 100-year-old Auto Age is waning. Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania. [Registration Required] Frac sand mining splits Wisconsin communities. Dotting much of western Wisconsin's rural landscape are new man-made tears in the hills where frac sand mining has exploded as a job creator and source of community tension. Now that mines have opened in communities, the question of whether they are a good idea is far from decided. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. Billions of gallons of sewage flow into New York waters. Billions of gallons of untreated sewage flow into New York waterways annually, but it remains difficult to tell when and where to avoid contact despite a new law mandating prompt public notice. Associated Press Sunoco set to take Pennsylvania land for pipeline. Several property owners could lose land from a pipeline company's use of eminent domain -- all because of William Penn and the Duke of York. The pipeline's last half-mile is key, because it involves interstate commerce and that gives Sunoco the power to take the land. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pennsylvania. Some say industry arrogance fueled fracking anger. Some experts say arrogance, a lack of transparency and poor communication on the part of the drilling industry have helped fuel public anger over the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Associated Press Lac-Mégantic train explosion: A regulatory failure? Railways once were run under the watchful eye of federal inspectors, but government regulators have stepped back in recent years, passing the responsibility for safety over to companies. These changes went little noticed by most Canadians. Until Lac-Mégantic. Toronto Star, Ontario. Green shift backfires as German pollution jumps. Germany’s air pollution is set to worsen for a second year, the first back-to-back increase since at least the 1980s, after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to shut nuclear plants led utilities to burn more coal. Business Week Scientists collect water near site of blown well. Scientists from several universities are working to learn whether a gas well that blew wild last week off the Louisiana coast is polluting the Gulf of Mexico. Associated Press Expansion of drilling prompts deep fears. A new environmental fight looms over a huge natural gas harvesting project opponents claim will industrialize Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula forests and drain billions of gallons of water from aquifers that feed treasured trout streams. Detroit News, Michigan. Thailand resort beach blackened by oil spill. Black waves of crude oil washed up on a beach at a popular tourist island in Thailand's eastern sea despite continuous attempts to clean up the oil up over the weekend after it leaked from a pipeline, officials said Monday. Associated Press Trash in Kerala. India's fast and rising salaries bring more consumption, and much more trash. In south India, a village chosen as the site of a trash disposal facility has rebelled. It refuses to accept any more garbage from a nearby city. Living On Earth India supreme court probes contaminated milk. Food safety in India has come under the microscope in recent days after the deaths of 23 children who ate a poisoned school lunch in Bihar in eastern India earlier this month. Now the quality of milk on sale across the country is under scrutiny. Wall Street Journal [Subscription Required] Conservationists call for quiet: The ocean is too loud! There was a time when a blue whale calling off the coast of Massachusetts could be heard by other blue whales straight across the Atlantic Ocean. But ever since the advent of the propeller engine 150 years ago, that's changed. All Things Considered, NPR. Seeking support, biotech food companies pledge transparency. With pressure growing to label genetically modified foods, the developers of biotechnology crops are starting a campaign to gain support for their products by promising new openness. 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