"EPA Delays Release of Final Ozone Standards"
"U.S. EPA won't meet its goal of releasing new nationwide standards for ground-level ozone this month, the agency told a federal court Friday."
Source: NYTimes, 08/24/2010
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"Court Upholds Protections for Pacific Steelhead, Rebuffs Farmers"
"A federal appeals court panel on Friday ruled that wild steelhead remain an endangered species and rebuffed Central Valley irrigators' efforts to relax federal government protections on the Pacific salmon."
Source: LA Times, 08/24/2010
"Warming Could Endanger Va.'s Mountain Wildlife"
As species in many parts of the world move uphill in response to global warming, they get stranded on "mountain islands" where there very existence could be endangered.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, 08/24/2010
"U.S. Farmers Oppose EPA's Proposed Dust Standard"
"American farmers have been ridiculing a proposal by U.S. regulators to reduce the amount of dust floating in rural air."
Source: Reuters, 08/24/2010
"Could High Level Nuclear Waste Be on Its Way To Utah?"
"A Federal judge recently struck down a ruling that is keeping high level nuclear waste from being stored on an Indian reservation in Tooele County. It's a judicial move that could make it easier to bring the highly toxic waste into the state of Utah where it will be stored."
Source: ABC 4 News, 08/24/2010
"Nuclear Plant's Use of River Water Prompts $1.1 Billion Debate"
"Just beneath the wind-stippled surface of the Hudson River here, huge pipes suck enough water into the Indian Point nuclear plant every second to fill three Olympic swimming pools. And each second they take in dozens of organisms -- fish and crabs, but mostly larvae -- that are at the center of a $1.1 billion debate: should the plant have to put in cooling towers that would vastly reduce the intake of water?"
Source: NYTimes, 08/24/2010
California Watch
A project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch covers the state's environment, health, money and politics, education, and public safety. Find story ideas and reporting tips, a blog, recommended bookmarks, and databases to download, such as California wildfire history and top greenhouse gas polluters.
Strengthening Mexico's Legal Framework to Address Climate Change
Participants in this week-long series of meetings between Mexican federal legal officials and U.S. climate change experts, facilitated by the Environmental Law Institute, will discuss their observations and insights and the climate change legal framework in Mexico.
"Website Publicizes Cancer Map, Environmental Data"
"BINGHAMTON -- A pair of [New York] state legislators on Wednesday showed an improved version of a website mapping cancer instances statewide as well as buildings and other facilities holding chemicals, gases or producing air emissions."
Source: Binghamton Press, 08/20/2010
"ADHD Risk May Be Tied To Pesticide Exposure Before Birth"
"Children whose mothers were exposed to widely-used pesticides such as malathion during pregnancy may be at increased risk of developing an attention disorder by age 5, a new study shows."
Source: MSNBC, 08/20/2010
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