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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. BPA, phthalates tied to kids' weight, diabetes risk. Children exposed to two chemicals commonly used in food packaging are more likely to be obese or show signs of diabetes precursors than those with lower exposure, new research suggests. Reuters Why living in Shannon, Quebec, is bad for your health. Shannon, Quebec, for years has been plagued by abnormally high rates of certain cancers. Medical professionals have pointed the finger at the town's Valcartier military base, where TCE - a solvent which strips grease from metal - was used by a munitions manufacturer for more than 40 years. The Independent, United Kingdom. After Chernobyl, complexity surrounds local health problems. People who lived in the areas that received significant contamination from Chernobyl in 1986 have been the subject of many scientific studies. But researchers haven't looked much at health problems in the region's children who weren't yet born at the time of the disaster, said Scott Davis, epidemiologist at the University of Washington. CNN Study finds link between lead paint, discipline problems. A new study that analyzed medical and discipline data from Milwaukee Public Schools found young children who are exposed to lead are nearly three times more likely to be suspended from school by the fourth grade. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. Bat war calls for nuclear option. Forty-six bunkers in Maine that once stored bombs soon may provide hibernation sites for little brown bats, which are rapidly disappearing because of the cold-tolerant fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Portland Press Herald, Maine. Who's monitoring food additives? About 10,000 chemicals are added to Americans' food to make it taste better or look better, to thicken it, preserve it, or otherwise improve it. That's an awful lot of chemicals for the federal Food and Drug Administration to monitor. How do they do it? It turns out that, often, they don't. Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania. [Registration Required] China bans more New Zealand dairy products on new contamination scare. More New Zealand milk products sold to China have been banned after elevated levels of nitrates were found, raising further concerns over quality and testing in the world's largest dairy exporter in the wake of a contamination scare earlier this month. Reuters Farmers work to propel aquaculture in North Carolina. The bays and sounds of North Carolina once yielded hundreds of thousands of bushels of oysters a year, before pollution, overfishing , disease and other factors caused their populations to decline. Now a small group of scientists and growers is laying the groundwork to revive the industry. Raleigh News & Observer, North Carolina. Chefs stir the pot in hopes of influencing big food issues. Many chefs are considering how — and whether — they can make a difference on the issues that concern them most, such as USDA organic standards, GMO labeling, school nutrition and humane animal husbandry. Seattle Times, Washington. Toxic sludge from polluted rivers turned into art. Not everything to do with pollution is ugly. This abstract art was created using paints made from the metallic run-off collected from polluted rivers in Ohio. New Scientist Delaware makes big gambit over smog rule in contesting EPA. Delaware environmental regulators are arguing for the right to allow local power plants and factories to go outside the state to buy credits for pollution reduction, a practice that could lead to more pollution produced in Delaware. Wilmington News Journal, Delaware. Red Sea shore loses up to 70 percent of its fish stock to pollution. Environmental pollution on the Red Sea shore has caused the loss of up to 70 percent of its fishing wealth, according to Saudi Arabian officials. Jeddah Arab News, Saudi Arabia. Oil leaks from submerged Philippine ferry. Philippine authorities said Sunday they were unable to stop fuel leaking from a ferry that sank, as oil spread to coastal villages, fishing grounds and mangroves more than three miles away. Agence France-Presse Firefighters step up battle against Idaho blaze; resort towns menaced. Firefighters mounted on Sunday an all-out ground and air attack on an Idaho wildfire that has forced the evacuation of some 2,250 homes and threatened the world-class ski resort of Sun Valley, where snow-making water cannons were used to keep the flames at bay. Reuters Noise from seismic air guns could be skirmish before war over offshore drilling. The proposed use of “seismic air guns” to determine how much oil and gas lies beneath a vast swath of the ocean floor off the southeastern coast of the United States is provoking an early skirmish in a battle over oil drilling that is still years away. Washington Post [Registration Required] Trace metals debate. In 1905, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, the nonprofit standards-setting organization known as USP, introduced a method to check for heavy metals in U.S. pharmaceuticals. More than 100 years later, drug manufacturers still use the same chemistry to determine whether the level of 10 metal impurities is acceptable in their products. Chemical & Engineering News At school, fall is in the (cough) air. California officials say there's a definite connection between the start of the school year and levels of pollution. In particular, they say, drivers who idle their vehicles while waiting to pick up children after school are partly to blame for failure to meet an ozone-pollution standard in some regions. Stockton Record, California. Crews rush to clean up former California nuke lab. The sun was barely up at a former Cold War rocket test site when crews in hard hats, neon vests and steel-toe boots collected jars of dirt as part of a massive effort to clean up from a partial nuclear meltdown in California a half century ago. Parties that inherited the toxic mess face a 2017 deadline to restore the sprawling hilltop complex on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Associated Press California's San Luis Reservoir is 17 percent full, and causing Silicon Valley water problems. The shoreline of the San Luis Reservoir is a vast expanse of dried, cracked mud. Boat ramps end above the water's edge. Hills show erosion lines where the lake's surface once lapped in wetter years 168 feet higher than today. San Jose Mercury News, California. What's ailing America's cattle? A growing number of cattle arriving for slaughter at U.S. meatpacking plants have recently shown unusual signs of distress and scientists suspect a tie to weight-gain supplements called beta-agonists that have only recently become widely used. Wall Street Journal [Subscription Required] More news from today Shortcuts to stories from today about The good news, Avian flu, Climate, Children's health, Air pollution, Cancer, Reproductive disorders, Endocrine disruption, Birth defects, Learning and developmental disabilities, Immune disorders, Environmental justice, Superfund, Water treatment/sewage, Food safety, Integrity of science, Green chemistry. You can also read last weekend's news. Plus: If you were on vacation last week, don't miss last week's top stories... Would you like to display the news stories from EnvironmentalHealthNews.org on your own web site? Check out our RSS feeds. Compiled by Environmental Health Sciences | |
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