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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. Mercury fingerprint of Pacific fish points to Asia coal power plants. Mercury found in high levels in deep Pacific Ocean fish such as swordfish has a chemical fingerprint, and it implicates coal-burning power plants in Asia, according to a new study. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Florida pledges $90 million for bridge to help Everglades. Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday pledged $90 million for a new bridge along historic Tamiami Trail, a project that promises to restore natural water flow to part of the Everglades and ease — at least eventually — unnatural Lake Okeechobee releases now fouling two coastal rivers. Miami Herald, Florida. Loons sound alarm on mercury pollution. Loons have enjoyed unprecedented population growth over the last 30 years. They outlived DDT and a time when people used to shoot loons for sport. But a study of loons finds if not for persistent mercury pollution, things could have been even better. Adirondack North Country Public Radio, New York. Pesticide makers challenge EU neonicotinoid ban in court. Two agrochemical companies are fighting back against an EU-wide ban on three common neonicotinoid pesticides. Syngenta Crop Protection, which manufactures and sells one of the compounds in Europe, announced yesterday that it has brought a legal case earlier this month before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Science World Bank approves loan to sugar plantation amid concerns about kidney disease. Despite growing alarm over a mysterious kidney disease that is afflicting Central American agricultural workers, the World Bank approved a new loan to expand a sugar plantation in Nicaragua, renewing its support for an industry whose workers have been devastated by the disease. Center for Public Integrity Fukushima crisis new blow to fishermen's hopes. A sliver of hope emerged for fishermen near the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant after recent sampling results showed a decline in radioactivity in some fish species. But a new crisis spawned by fresh leaks of radioactive water from the Fukushima plant last week may have dashed those prospects. Associated Press Fukushima Watch: Previous experiments with ice walls. The 1.4-kilometer-long subterranean ice wall that Japan is proposing to create around the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi may well be the biggest such structure yet, if it’s completed and switched on as planned. But it’s not completely without precedent. Wall Street Journal [Subscription Required] EPA sued for scrapping livestock data collection. Environmental and animal welfare groups sued the EPA on Wednesday, alleging the federal agency unlawfully scrapped a rule that would have authorized it to collect information from large-scale livestock confinement farms. Associated Press Post-Katrina New Orleans a story of modern pioneering. It's been 8 years to the day since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. To mark the anniversary, NPR revisits neighborhood activist and curator Ronald Lewis, a New Orleans resident who Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep regularly checked in with in the months after the storm. Morning Edition, NPR. Oil industry contributions drive Jindal's opposition to lawsuit. Local environmental groups on Wednesday charged that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's receipt of more than $1 million in contributions from the oil and gas industry is behind his opposition to a lawsuit aimed at getting them to restore coastal wetland damage. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Louisiana. A strong voice for environmental action in Louisiana's Cancer Alley. Wilma Subra, a diminutive grandmother, has long challenged the corporate polluters in one of the nation's most toxic regions. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] On fracking rules, it’s states vs. feds. How can you be in a relationship with someone who doesn't want to be in a relationship with you? That's the challenge facing Interior Secretary Sally Jewell when she recently visited with oil executives here and sought to explain why the federal government thinks it's necessary to regulate drilling operations. National Journal Around oil and gas fields in Texas, water supplies run thin. Jack Watts has been drilling water wells in the countryside for decades. And in the last five years he has seen something he says he’s never seen before. Customers around the natural gas fields atop the Barnett Shale are turning on their taps to find their wells have run dry, Dallas Morning News, Texas. Cooling Pacific has dampened global warming, research shows. Cooling waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean appear to be a major factor in dampening global warming in recent years, scientists said on Wednesday. The Guardian, United Kingdom. Up to 98 percent of the UK's fresh food carries pesticides. A massive proportion of the UK's food is contaminated with pesticide, with up to 98 percent of some fruits carrying traces of the chemicals. Overall, the proportion of supermarket foods with pesticide residues has almost doubled in a decade. London Daily Mail, United Kingdom. GMO corn failing to protect fields from pests. Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn, a combination of measures that are supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report. Reuters Secrets of Semipalatinsk: How nuclear theft was averted in Central Asia. More nuclear material remains at the former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, but collaboration between the United States and Russia has locked down most of it. 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