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| Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. 9/11 responders outside New York seek compensation. They weren't exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit, and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and health benefits being given to New Yorkers. Associated Press Chippewas, Wisconsin governor battle over mine. While laughing children bob in kayaks along the sandy shores of Lake Superior, their somber parents hunch over picnic tables talking about their wild rice, their water, their fish and their way of life. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians worry about what is to become of their lake, a life source for their people. USA Today In new battleground over toxic reform, American Chemistry Council targets the states. Industry — fueled by the American Chemistry Council, a $100-million-a-year advocacy group glittered with Fortune 500 partners — is flexing its muscles from statehouse to statehouse to beat back efforts to disclose harmful chemicals or remove them from the shelves. Center for Public Integrity Best of friends: Baltimore mayor, chemical lobbyist. The American Chemistry Council’s influence is so deeply entwined with local and state government, it sometimes feels like a marriage. Sometimes, it is. Center for Public Integrity New finding: Even when Lake Erie’s algae leaves, health threat remains. Scientists are getting uneasy about the harmful blue-green algae known as microcystis arriving earlier and staying later as the climate warms. But what they’ve recently discovered is what it leaves behind: toxins capable of damaging your central nervous system. Great Lakes Echo, Michigan. In South Florida, a polluted bubble ready to burst. On wind-whipped days when rain pounds this part of South Florida, Lake Okeechobee, with its vulnerable dike and polluted waters, had become a giant environmental problem far beyond its banks. New York Times [Registration Required] The President and the pipeline. On the day of his second Inauguration, in January, Barack Obama delivered an address of unabashed liberal ambition and promise. And he seemed determined to take on even the most complicated and ominous problem of all: climate change. New Yorker New Orleans considers a new approach to flooding, sea rise. Several sites have been picked for an ambitious $6.2 billion plan to re-imagine New Orleans as a watery metropolis instead of a drained fortress keeping lakes, rivers and the ocean at bay. Some areas would be parks during dry times, and "detention ponds" during storms. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Louisiana. Small islands make big statement on climate change. Sometimes, the biggest ideas come from the smallest of places. In other times, desperation pushes individuals, groups or nations to bite off more than they can chew. In the case of the Marshall Islands, both of the above statements may be true. Vancouver Sun, British Columbia. Tens of thousands protest Mexican oil reforms. Tens of thousands of Mexicans jammed the center of their capital city Sunday to protest President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plan to allow foreign firms to invest in and collaborate with the state-run oil company, whose independence from outside influence has been a source of national pride for decades. Los Angeles Times [Registration Required] Cyanide pollution fears: Thousands of Romanians protest 'biggest in Europe' gold mine. Massive protests are gripping Romania against the government's controversial decision to pave the way for a Canadian firm to build Europe's largest opencast gold mine -- which many fear may lead to an environmental disaster. Moscow RT, Russia. South Korean nuclear industry faces protests. Asia's fourth-largest economy faces possible power blackouts this winter and next summer, as cable safety issues and protests that are holding up completion of an ultra-high-voltage power line threaten to keep more nuclear reactors offline. Reuters Former EPA chief Lisa Jackson returns to familiar hot seat. Jackson is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is holding a hearing on the same criticisms about executive branch secrecy that the panel’s Republicans repeatedly lobbed at EPA during her tenure at the agency. Politico Greening California schools a ‘win-win’ for students, districts. In the last few years, a broad drive toward sustainability has reached into the classroom, with green schools sprouting up across the country. Green schools are lauded as a win-win proposition – cutting energy costs and creating healthier environments that studies show boost academic performance. New America Media It’s not easy being green. The concept of green chemistry arose in the 1990s and has increasingly been integrated into the chemical enterprise. Meeting sustainable production challenges and ensuring that useful synthetic chemicals are benign add up to a tough challenge ahead for chemists. Chemical & Engineering News USDA pilot program fails to stop contaminated meat. A meat inspection program that the Agriculture Department plans to roll out in pork plants nationwide has repeatedly failed to stop the production of contaminated meat at American and foreign plants that have already adopted the approach, documents and interviews show. Washington Post [Registration Required] Commission sinks Connecticut's lobster industry. On Friday, Norwalk lobsterman Mike Kalaman was pulling his traps around buoy 11b off Eatons Neck, in the deepest waters in the western end of Long Island Sound. After 37 years hoisting traps, Kalaman says he cannot believe it has come to such extreme measures. Norwalk Citizen News, Connecticut. 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