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EPA Makes Chemical Inventory Freely Available
Search and sort 84,000 selected chemicals manufactured, used, or imported into the US — minus 17,000 still hidden from the public due to claims of business confidentiality.
Money Flows As Elections Loom
The newly upgraded and expanded MAPLight.org will help you make connections between lobbying and campaign contributions and the actions of members of the US House and Senate, including their votes on specific bills and issues.
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
"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
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