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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Unfair share: How oil and gas drillers avoid paying royalties. Income from oil and gas production in the United States doesn’t always trickle down to landowners, as companies find ways to minimize the share they pay in royalties. Manipulation of costs and other data by oil companies is keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of private and government landholders, an investigation by ProPublica has found. ProPublica Gov. Scott says Florida will sue Georgia over water. Gov. Rick Scott, saying it's time to fight for the economic future of the Apalachicola Bay region, announced Tuesday that Florida will file a lawsuit against Georgia over its consumption of freshwater in a river system that serves three Southeast states. Associated Press Study shows high pollution at Canada train crash site: One carcinogen 394,444 times above limit. Tests conducted by an environmental group suggest last month’s Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, train disaster had a devastating impact on water quality and soil in the affected area. Canadian Press Chipotle is keeping its meat antibiotic-free after all. For a few hours Tuesday, it appeared that Chipotle Mexican Grill had softened its hard line against antibiotics in meat production. However, Chipotle has made no such change in its policies, according to a company spokesman. National Public Radio Silence of the hives. America’s honeybees are dying in droves, and colony collapse disorder is the least of our worries. Pacific Northwest Inlander, Washington. Ten years after the blackout, how has the power grid changed? The 2003 power outage was also an industry wake-up call. The voluntary operating standards utilities had been using were no longer good enough, so Congress beefed up regulations, ultimately giving some teeth to an organization called the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Morning Edition, NPR. Coal mine fight embodies an economic struggle in rural Australia. Bulga, a hamlet nestled in the verdant hills of the wine country north of Sydney, is at the center of a legal dispute that could reshape the regulatory environment of a national economy heavily dependent on natural resource extraction. New York Times [Registration Required] Large US coal power plants getting life extensions. The nation’s big coal-burning power plants are not ready to go the way of the dinosaurs. Utilities are making substantial investments to keep their largest coal generating stations operating for decades — and emitting millions of tons of carbon dioxide annually. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota. After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up. The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 metric tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Reuters Nuclear agency violating law at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, court says. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is "flouting the law" by not conducting a licensing review of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Governor: At least 12 homes destroyed in Utah fire. A wildfire destroyed at least a dozen homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds of others near a Utah resort town Tuesday as lightning-sparked blazes devoured dry grass and brush across the West and burned to the edges of small communities in several states. Associated Press Heat wave continues to bake Japan. The severe heat wave continued Tuesday to engulf wide areas of Japan, with temperatures in one western city reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the fourth day in a row, the Meteorological Agency said. Kyodo News, Japan. Sediment tests will show if Mayflower residents saved their treasured lake from oil spill. Firefighters and public works employees used dump trucks and backhoes to dam a sudden river of crude flowing toward the lake. Did oil still seep through? Inside Climate News Energy firm makes costly fracking bet—on water. Antero Resources Inc., an energy company backed by New York private-equity firms, plans to spend more than half a billion dollars on a pipeline. But the 80 miles of pipe won't transport oil or gas: They will carry water from the Ohio River to fracking sites in West Virginia and Ohio. Wall Street Journal [Subscription Required] Baltimore housing agency pays $6.8 million to lead paint victims. Using funds meant to help poor families find affordable places to live, Baltimore's public housing agency has paid nearly $6.8 million in long-standing court judgments for lead poisoning suffered by six former residents when they were young children. Baltimore Sun, Maryland. Questions linger after company spreads toxic chemicals on northern Michigan roads. Earlier this summer, a Kalkaska company spread industrial waste on roads in Benzie County. The toxic contaminants were mixed with brine from oil wells - it's used to keep down dust on gravel roads. The pollutants tested way above what’s allowed for human contact. Michigan Public Radio, Michigan. California to send more inmates to fungal-infected prisons. Just weeks after a federal judge ordered California to remove inmates from two prisons that have been plagued by a deadly fungal infection, state officials are planning to send in more inmates who may be susceptible to the disease. East Bay Express, California. Study: Sugar even at moderate levels toxic to mice health, reproduction. Sugar, even at moderate levels, could be toxic to your health - or at least to your sex life, a new study says. Just the equivalent of three sugary sodas a day had significant negative effects on life span and competition for mates in mice. Washington Post [Registration 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. 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