"Salmonella Stays With Chickens, From Birth To Kitchen"
Salmonella bacteria are pervasive in much U.S. chicken, and sicken an estimated 1 million people a year.
Source: Wash Post, 10/03/2011
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"Tainted Water Flows From Taps of Rural Valley Homes"
For many poor families in California's rural San Joaquin Valley, the drinking water that comes from the tap is unhealthful -- often polluted by the same large-scale agriculture that gives them jobs. Pollution of private wells is a problem that spreads nationwide.
Mark Grossi reports for the Fresno Bee October 1, 2011.
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Source: Fresno Bee, 10/03/2011
"TransCanada Pipeline Foes Allege Bias in U.S. E-Mails"
"With the Obama administration about to decide whether to green-light a controversial pipeline to take crude oil from Canada’s oil sands to the United States Gulf Coast, e-mails released Monday paint a picture of a sometimes warm and collaborative relationship between lobbyists for the company building the billion-dollar pipeline and officials in the State Department, the agency that has final say over the pipeline."
Source: NY Times, 10/03/2011
"Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales"
The multi-billionaire Koch brothers have financed a big part of today's conservative surge in U.S. politics, and they have a penchant for secrecy. As a result the U.S. news media have reported their opposition to government regulation -- but not the fact that Koch companies have used bribes to win business in Africa, India, and the Middle East, and that they have "sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/03/2011
"The Daily Caller Quadruples-Down on Its Wrongness"
"Earlier this week, I published a post pointing out that the Daily Caller's claim that the EPA plans to hire 230,000 employees to enforce new climate regulations is false. Since then the Daily Caller has quadrupled-down on the claim, despite a number of other outlets -- first Politico, then Greg Sargent's Washington Post blog -- also pointing out that it was flat-out wrong. Now the Caller has published an editor's note that, rather than reasserting the claim, attempts to reframe their entire argument."
Source: Mother Jones, 09/30/2011
"The Trouble With Health Problems Near Gas Fracking"
Many people have told stories of getting severely sick near natural gas wells, especially ones using the controversial fracking technique. One of the biggest barriers to determining whether the gas production is causing illness is the gas industry's resistance to disclosing the toxic emissions and hazardous wastes they generate.
Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz originally reported the story for ProPublica September 16, 2011.
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Source: ProPublica, 09/30/2011
Reports of Property Damage from Longwall Coal Mining Mount in Pa.
"WAYNESBURG, Pa. -- A surge in mining damage to waterways, houses and roads has sparked a fierce debate in southwestern Pennsylvania's coal region about whether regulations are strong enough to protect property and natural resources."
Source: Greenwire, 09/30/2011
"Grim Predictions Say 9 More Years Of Texas Drought Possible"
"A devastating Texas drought that has browned city lawns and caused more than $5 billion in damages to the state's farmers and ranchers could continue for another nine years, a state forecaster said on Thursday."
"'It is possible that we could be looking at another of these multiyear droughts like we saw in the 1950s, and like the tree rings have shown that the state has experienced over the last several centuries,' State Climatologist John Nielson-Gammon told Reuters.
Source: Reuters, 09/30/2011
"Industrial Solvent TCE Even More Dangerous To People"
"EPA finds trichloroethylene causes kidney and liver cancer, lymphoma and other health problems. The decision could raise the cost of cleanups nationwide, including in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys."
Source: LA Times, 09/30/2011
Cleanup Planned for Largest Abandoned Uranium Mine on Navajo Nation
"SANTA FE -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan for the clean up of the largest and highest priority abandoned uranium mine on the Navajo Nation."
Source: ENS, 09/30/2011
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