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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. National data on chemical safety is right only about 10 percent of the time, study finds. Even the best national data on chemical accidents is wrong nine times out of 10, with a Dallas Morning News analysis of more than 750,000 federal records finding pervasive inaccuracies and holes in data on chemical accidents, such as the one in West that killed 15 people and injured more than 300. Dallas Morning News, Texas. Yosemite fire swallowing everything in its path. The fastest-growing wildfire in the nation is now raging in parts of Yosemite National Park. At nearly 200 square miles, the massive fire is swallowing everything in its path, threatening more than 4,500 homes, buildings and campsites and burning more than 125,000 acres. CBS News New Mexico residents demand action on coal ash. Waterflow resident R.G. Hunt Jr. says that he was diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning in 1982 and believes that it was caused by drinking water contaminated by heavy metals leeching from coal ash at San Juan Generating Station and San Juan Mine. Farmington Daily Times, New Mexico. Livelihood concerns: Fisher folk take to streets. Hundreds of fisher folk, residents of 129-km long Karachi coastline, took to the streets on Saturday to record their protest against increasing levels of marine pollution, which they say is "destroying the means of their livelihood." Lahore Daily Times, Pakistan. Golden Rice: Lifesaver? Golden Rice is being developed by a nonprofit group with the aim of providing a new source of vitamin A to people in the Philippines and eventually in many other places where a lack of the vital nutrient causes blindness in a quarter-million to a half-million children each year. New York Times [Registration Required] Can UN scientists revive drive against climate change? A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change. Agence France-Presse Where sand is gold, the reserves are running dry. Constant erosion from storms and tides and a rising sea level continue to swallow up chunks of beach along Florida’s Atlantic coastline. Communities have spent the last few decades replenishing their beaches with dredged-up sand. New York Times [Registration Required] Coal contributors back Ohio GOP legislators, governor. Coal interests that a veteran environmental regulator says played a role in his forced resignation have contributed about $50,000 to Republican Gov. John Kasich since he took office – a fraction of the well-funded politician's re-election campaign haul. Associated Press Oil sands pipeline avoids Keystone XL scrutiny. The most valuable piece of farmland in Shelby County this summer isn’t growing soybeans or corn, it’s holding a hardier crop — steel pipe. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri. Fracking: The great debate. It's either the answer to our energy supply problem, according to David Cameron. Or a toxic threat to the environment, if you believe Caroline Lucas. So which of them is right? The Independent, United Kingdom. Solar-powered travel: Opening up new routes across sky, sea and land. A new generation of solar-powered vehicles is making extraordinary journeys around the world and pushing the boundaries of technical knowledge. London Observer, United Kingdom. India: How climate change worries have affected mental health of Sunderbans residents. A number of environmental threats including that of climate change and man-animal conflict are driving villagers in Sunderbans islands towards madness and even suicide. Press Trust of India, India. Another delay for US decision on Keystone. A decision on the controversial and much-delayed oil sands pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast could be pushed into 2014 as a U.S. watchdog examines whether contracts tied to the Keystone XL review process were wrongfully awarded and regulatory safeguards fully adopted. Globe and Mail, Ontario. Water fix nearing for Tulare County? Many of the seven towns in northern Tulare County, California, have experienced delays in getting healthy water. The region's underground water is tainted with nitrates, a chemical resulting from farm fertilizers, septic systems, dairy waste, waste treatment plants and rotting vegetation. Fresno Bee, California. Someone has to maintain San Francisco's sewers. Ten feet below the surface of Tiffany Avenue just south of the Mission district, there is a 3-by-5-foot brick pipeline that carries waste, stormwater and sewage downhill to the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant for treatment. The tunnel was built in 1886. San Francisco Examiner, California. Foreclosures fueling illegal dumping in Clay County. A walk in the woods of Clay County may lead to the ruined remnants of someone’s dream home turned foreclosure nightmare. Illegal dumping is an ongoing problem in the county, and residential and commercial foreclosures are contributing to the problem. Florida Times-Union, Florida. Making some effort, but North Texas continues to run the water. On the northern edge of Dallas, known for excessive water use, where residents have been subject to watering restrictions for more than a year, a cozy home on less than half an acre has one of the greenest lawns in town. Texas Tribune, Texas. Nuclear accident? Take a pill. State health officials in Massachusetts supplied communities across the Cape and Islands with 1.7 million potassium iodide pills this week — more than enough to protect the thyroids of residents and visitors should a radioactive release occur at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Cape Cod Times, Massachusetts. Group pitches Mississippi for nuclear waste storage. The Mississippi Energy Institute is making a pitch to politicians and business leaders that Mississippi get into the used nuclear fuel storage business. Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi. Tobacco proposal for TPP trade talks sparks backlash. The Obama administration is facing a furore over its latest tobacco proposal in trade talks with 11 Pacific Rim countries, with critics charging it will boost smoking in the region and business groups fighting back. Financial Times, United Kingdom. Measles outbreak linked to Tarrant County megachurch. Tarrant County health officials have linked 11 measles cases to a megachurch near Eagle Mountain Lake. Some media reports said the church was opposed to vaccinations because of a reported link to autism. But a representative of the church said it does not have a stance on immunization. About 200 members have been vaccinated over the past week. Dallas Morning News, Texas. 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