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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Doctors, environmental groups want tighter emissions limits on coal plants. Expecting Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings to file bankruptcy soon, doctors and environmentalists will try Wednesday to force pollution cuts at the company’s oldest coal plants — either through costly upgrades or replacement with cleaner energy sources. Dallas Morning News, Texas. Pennsylvania officials attempted to suppress controversial study that criticized shale gas. StateImpact Pennsylvania has obtained a copy of the original draft climate report and internal DEP emails, which reveal an attempt by its Policy Office to suppress controversial research that questions the benefits of natural gas. StateImpact Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Exide to begin testing for dangerous metals buildup. California officials have ordered a Vernon battery recycler to begin testing dust and soil in the neighborhood around its plant to determine whether dangerous metals have accumulated and are posing a health risk to the community. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Report unveils hidden costs of litter clean-up in California cities. California communities spend close to half a billion dollars each year trying to prevent litter from mucking up the sensitive ecosystems of rivers, lakes and coastal waters, according to a report to be released Wednesday. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] E-cigarettes are as harmful as cigarettes and could cause cancer, claims study. Electronic cigarettes contain carcinogenic chemicals that make some as harmful as normal tobacco, a new French study has claimed. The report comes after government plans announced in May this year to ban electronic cigarettes from public places in France. London Daily Mail, United Kingdom. Shampoos still contain carcinogens, lawsuit claims. An Oakland watchdog group has sued four companies and plans to sue dozens more for allegedly manufacturing or selling shampoos, soaps and other care products without attaching labels warning consumers that they contained high levels of a carcinogen. San Francisco Chronicle, California. Will Enbridge Energy's new pipeline in Michigan be safer? A new oil pipeline is going underground in Michigan. Enbridge Energy says this new pipeline will be bigger - it will pump more oil to the Marathon refinery in Detroit - and they say the pipeline will be safer. Michigan Public Radio, Michigan. Gulf council expected to approve initial restoration plan on Wednesday. An initial comprehensive plan for restoring the Gulf Coast’s ecosystem and economy is set to face a vote Wednesday by a federal-state council overseeing the spending of likely billions of dollars in Clean Water Act fines from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Louisiana. Yosemite fire impacts Nevadans more than 100 miles away; hazardous, unhealthy air warnings. The giant wildfire burning at the edge of Yosemite National Park has not only destroyed buildings and threatened water supplies, electricity and sequoias, it has also unleashed a smoky haze that has worsened air quality more than 100 miles away in Nevada. Associated Press African dust creates haze, health issues. Each summer, microscopic dust particles kicked up by African sandstorms blow thousands of miles across the Atlantic to arrive in the Caribbean, limiting airplane pilots’ visibility to just a few miles and contributing to the suffering of asthmatics trying to draw breath. Florida Times-Union, Florida. New coal-fired power stations in Guangdong ‘will kill thousands’. Emissions from new coal-fired power stations planned in Guangdong could cause as many as 16,000 deaths in the next 40 years, research by an air-pollution specialist indicates. South China Morning Post, China. Chemical attack evidence lasts years, experts say. Scientists have discovered that sarin, a deadly nerve agent, can be detected long after its use on the battlefield. In one case, forensic experts went to a Kurdish village in northern Iraq four years after Iraqi warplanes had dropped clusters of bombs there. The experts found a unique chemical signature of the lethal toxic in contaminated soil from bomb craters. New York Times [Registration Required] Stash of PCBs shocks Quebec town. Quebecers should be worried that it took 15 years for officials to clue into the fact that a Pointe-Claire company had a yard full of toxic materials, says one environmental expert, and the public should be demanding more transparency in the wake of the discovery. Montreal Gazette, Quebec. Groups sue Ottawa over lack of review for pesticides banned in Europe. The federal government is facing a series of lawsuits over its refusal to review three pesticides banned in Europe, as well as its delays in deciding what to do about other chemicals that those countries consider too hazardous to use. Canadian Press Nuclear accident evacuees to sue government, TEPCO for damages. Residents of Fukushima Prefecture and other areas who evacuated after the onset of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are planning to file lawsuits in district courts in the Kansai region against the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. Asahi Shimbun, Japan. Fonterra products didn't have botulism bacteria after all, New Zealand tests show. Dairy giant Fonterra's products at the center of a global contamination scare this month did not contain a bacteria that could cause botulism, and posed no food safety threat, New Zealand officials said on Wednesday. Reuters Spices’ link to food ills prompts changes in farming. The United States Food and Drug Administration will soon release a comprehensive analysis that pinpoints imported spices, found in just about every kitchen in the Western world, as a surprisingly potent source of salmonella poisoning. New York Times [Registration Required] What's killing bottlenose dolphins? Experts discover cause. The hundreds of bottlenose dolphin deaths along the U.S. East Coast are likely due to a disease outbreak called cetacean morbillivirus, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries announced today. National Geographic News Smarter food: Does big farming mean bad farming? Size, as they say, isn’t everything. As shorthand, the big-equals-bad equation is convenient. But it obscures an inconvenient truth: Plenty of small farmers do not embrace sustainable practices and some big farmers are creative, responsible stewards of the land. 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