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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Fracking health project puts numbers to debate. A project examining the local health impacts from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people who may be affected. The results challenge the industry position that no one suffers but also suggest problems may not be as widespread as some critics claim. Associated Press Yosemite, San Francisco water supply still in path of unchecked Rim Fire. With scant cooperation from Mother Nature, fire crews waged a battle with few gains Sunday against the giant Rim Fire, which voraciously consumed dry brush and trees as it marched toward the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park. San Jose Mercury News, California. Air board will start monitoring pollution next to Southern California freeways. Air quality regulators will begin monitoring pollution levels near major Southern California traffic corridors next year, for the first time providing data important to nearly 1 million Southern Californians who are at greater risk of respiratory illness because they live within 300 feet of a freeway. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Millions spent on California water-storage plan that leaks. More than two decades ago, two water distributors came up with a tantalizing idea to increase reserves in parched Southern California: create an underground lake so vast it could hold enough to blanket Los Angeles — all 469 square miles — under a foot of water. But it leaked, the water disappeared and groundwater levels dropped sharply. Washington Post [Registration Required] Lead still 'a silent scourge' in poor Michigan community. Officials in Michigan's Berrien County used a $2 million federal grant to remove the lead from 124 area houses, including 100 in Benton Harbor, which is the second-worst spot in the state for lead contamination. But it remains "a silent scourge," the health department warns. St. Joseph Herald-Palladium, Michigan. Proposed rules could give copper mines free reign to pollute water. A New Mexico water quality commission will soon vote on a proposed copper mining rule that some experts say violates state law, could upend New Mexico’s long efforts to protect groundwater and would give other industries in the state a loophole to pollute aquifers. Santa Fe New Mexican, New Mexico. Toronto's clean little secret: The fishing is healthy. The return of big fish to the Toronto waterfront is part of a bigger, often overlooked story: the rebound of the city’s natural environment. The city’s air and water are the cleanest they have been in decades. Globe and Mail, Ontario. Students press schools to drop fossil fuel stocks. The effect of fossil fuels on global temperatures is rousing a new generation of student activists to press their schools to drop coal, petroleum and natural gas investments from campus endowments. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Russia's Arctic: Mission to protect wildlife. Russia is planning huge oil and gas developments in the Arctic Ocean off its northern coast - drilling that could threaten pristine wildlife habitats. BBC Rising levels of acids in seas may endanger marine life, says study. Rapidly rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are causing a potential catastrophe in our oceans as they become more acidic, scientists have warned. The Guardian, United Kingdom. Acidizing could rival fracking in Monterey Shale. Fracking hasn't unleashed an oil production boom in California, at least not yet. Could acid? San Francisco Chronicle, California. Alberta government releases long-awaited study into safety of pipelines. A long awaited report on pipeline safety commissioned by the Alberta government has taken an overall positive view of the province's regulations, but was quickly dismissed by critics as lacking in substance as it failed to draw lessons from specific spills in recent years. Canadian Press Environmental woes give rise to "cancer villages" in China. Nanmen is one of more than 400 areas in China so polluted by waste and factory runoff that its citizens are in danger of contracting the deadly disease. The villages are part of the dark underside of China’s industrial might. State College Centre Daily Times, Pennsylvania. Fukushima radiation leaks prompt government 'emergency measures.' Radioactive water spills at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant have forced Japan’s government to lay out what it called “emergency measures,” signaling that it’s taking control of the disaster recovery from the plant’s heavily criticized operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Bloomberg News Fears of food and water poisoning after Damascus gassings. Days after a suspected poison gas attack killed hundreds of people in crop-growing suburbs, residents of the Syrian capital say they are afraid their food and water supplies may be contaminated. Reuters Pakistan floods affect 1.5 million, officials say. Floods and heavy monsoon rains have now killed 178 people and affected 1.5 million across Pakistan in the last three weeks, disaster management officials said Sunday in updated figures. Agence France-Presse San Jose poised to adopt landmark plastic foam ban. After flirting with the idea for years, San Jose is poised to become the largest city in California, and perhaps the nation, to approve a ban on plastic foam food containers. San Jose Mercury News, California. 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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