European Satellite Will Measure Polar Ice Melt
"The European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite will measure the effects of climate change on the size and thickness of the polar caps."
Source: Guardian, 03/31/2010
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"Farm Pesticides Linked To Deadly Skin Cancer"
"Workers who apply certain pesticides to farm fields are twice as likely to contract melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, according to a new scientific study."
Source: EHN, 03/31/2010
"Tomato Gardeners, Plant On! Late Blight Is Gone"
"Tomato plants throughout much of the Northeast were hit last summer with a devastating fungal disease called 'late blight.' ... But as the climate gets warmer this year, green thumbs probably won't face the same threat."
Source: NPR, 03/31/2010
Enviros Fight Two Quarries Atop Ontario's Niagara Escarpment
"The topmost peak of Ontario's most outstanding geologic feature, the Niagara Escarpment, is under threat from two proposed quarries. But now the quarriers must deal with the massed opposition of a national nonprofit organization, a provincial regulatory agency and two local community groups."
Source: ENS, 03/31/2010
"Second Radioactive Substance at Vermont Yankee"
"Test results have confirmed the presence of another, more dangerous, radioactive substance in the soil at Vermont's only nuclear power plant, officials said Tuesday, five days after announcing they had found and stopped tritium leaks at Vermont Yankee."
Source: AP, 03/31/2010
"Strapped Cities Struggling to Fund Water Treatment Upgrades"
The bad economy is thwarting municipalities trying to upgrade their sewage treatment plants to comply with the Clean Water Act. "Chris Hornback, senior director of regulatory affairs for the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), said factory closings typically hit smaller communities harder than larger communities where larger numbers of users can make up for lost revenue more easily."
Source: Greenwire, 03/31/2010
"E.P.A. Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits"
"The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January."
Source: NYTimes, 03/31/2010
"Greenpeace Unmasks Koch Industries' Funding of Climate Denial Industry"
"Koch Industries has 'become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition,' spending over $48.5 million since 1997 to fund the climate denial machine, according to an extensive report today by Greenpeace."
Source: Huffington Post, 03/31/2010
"UK 'Climategate' Inquiry Largely Clears Scientists"
"A parliamentary panel investigating allegations that scientists at one of the world’s leading climate research centers misrepresented data related to global warming announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence to support that charge."
Source: AP, 03/31/2010
"Obama To Clear Way for Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas"
"The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America's coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off Virginia's coast, administration officials said Wednesday."
Source: Wash Post, 03/31/2010
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