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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Kettleman City toxic landfill fight might turn on finances. At the doorstep to the largest hazardous waste landfill in the West, Kettleman City has some of California's biggest pollution burdens, the state Environmental Protection Agency says. Yet a different state agency is poised to allow expansion of the hazardous waste landfill. Fresno Bee, California. Foundation's funds continue flow to fracking critics. Since early 2012, an Ithaca-based philanthropic fund has poured over $2 million into grants for groups who are opposed to or critical of hydraulic fracturing and unafraid to be vocal about it. And their grants appear to be having an impact. Gannett News Service Chemical in Indian school deaths was five times regular strength, experts say. Forensic experts investigating poisoned food that killed 23 children at an Indian school found traces of a chemical compound five times stronger than its level used in commercial pesticide, the chief of police in Bihar state said Saturday. Wall Street Journal [Subscription Required] Mining company deploys more masked militiamen against "eco-terrorists." Debate over a proposed open-pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin went from heated to outright bizarre last week when masked guards brandishing assault rifles showed up at the site in the remote and scenic wilderness of Penokee Hills. Mother Jones Pesticides may be at the root of bee, bat and amphibian die-offs. Waves of emerging wildlife diseases that are killing huge numbers of insect-eating animals could all be linked to the use of a new class of pesticides, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Immunology and Toxicology. Summit County Citizens Voice, Colorado. FAO tackles toxic waste disposal. United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that half a million tonnes of obsolete pesticides are scattered throughout the developing world. These toxic chemicals, often stored in leaking containers, are seeping into the soil and water, causing serious health and environmental concerns. Dar es Salaam Daily News, Tanzania. Obama finds unlikely ally in climate change battle: China. President Barack Obama has stumbled on an unusual partner in his quest to combat climate change: China. The world’s two biggest emitters of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are finding common cause in efforts to reduce global warming. Japan Times, Japan. The war on coal Obama isn't fighting. Big Coal and Republican lawmakers are pushing to expand mining operations on federal lands in the Powder River Basin, which straddles eastern Montana and Wyoming and holds the bulk of the country’s coal stocks. Nation Dust bowl blues. A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities – and sending a warning about climate change. Water scarcity here is starting to seem like something other than a passing concern. It’s a troubling sign of a long-term trend, a problem exacerbated by drought but more complex than annual precipitation. Nation Climate disruption and sea level rise. New research from Germany's climate research center, the Potsdam Institute, finds that for every degree Celsius the temperature increases, sea levels will rise about 7 feet. Living On Earth Reach for the sun. Compost is but one of the materials that can be used to produce biochar, a substance that a small but growing number of scientists and private companies believe could enable extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a meaningful scale. Slate Farmers warn of fire risk to crops as heat goes on. Crops and heathland across Britain now face the threat of devastating fires as Britain continues to swelter in record-breaking heat. Farmers have urged travellers to take considerable care not to trigger blazes through carelessness over the next few days. London Observer, United Kingdom. Newark revival wears orange along the river. Perhaps few places in America represent the urban trauma of the 1960s more than Newark, NJ. But a quiet upheaval is turning Newark's Passaic River, polluted as it may be, into a front line of reclamation. New York Times [Registration Required] 426 Joplin yards test high for lead levels after being disturbed by tornado. If you thought Joplin got all of the lead out, think again. Chunks of it -- some the size of tennis balls -- have turned up in residential yards that were disturbed two years ago by the tornado. Joplin Globe, Missouri. Breath of fresh air. Cherokee County is in close proximity to one of the largest coal fire power plants in the nation, considered among the worst pollutants in the country by some, with Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen just miles away in neighboring Bartow County. Canton Cherokee Tribune, Georgia. Phosphate giant pumps from Florida's aquifer to dilute its pollution. Last year, the world's largest phosphate mining company was granted a permit to pump up to 70 million gallons of water a day out of the ground for the next 20 years. Some of that water is being used to dilute polluted waste so it can be dumped into creeks without violating regulations. Tampa Bay Times, Florida. Homeowners near New Mexico site say cleanup is too slow. Water, and plenty of it, helped convince Milt and Jonnie Head to buy land in 1975 within sight of a huge tailings pile from a uranium mill. They were excited about the water on the site. “There’s still plenty of water,” Jonnie Head said. “You just don’t want to use it.” Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico. Fracking moratorium remains in place. The effort to lift the state’s fracking moratorium has died a quiet death, one of several casualties resulting from a House-Senate compromise on the state’s energy policy. Charlotte Observer, North Carolina. San Francisco sewer work must navigate around buried ships. On the surface, San Francisco is in a growth spurt. But below the streets lies an older San Francisco, one filled with buried ships, abandoned tunnels and hundreds of miles of aging sewer pipes on the brink of failure. San Francisco Chronicle, California. 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