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"EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking"

"Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing."

Source: ProPublica, 08/27/2009

"Farm to Hub to Table: New Nonprofit Feeds Appetite For Local Food"

The Local Food Hub in the Charlottesville, Va., area is an example of a new trend: nonprofit distribution enterprises that aggregate food produced by small-scale local farmers and move it quickly to local customers such as restaurants, schools, and retirement homes.

Source: Wash Post, 08/27/2009

"For Early Man, It Wasn't Easier Being Green"

"Archaeologists who study early hunter-gatherer societies are discovering that even the simplest cultures altered their environments, whether they meant to or not."

Source: NPR, 08/27/2009

"An Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Repellent?"

One key chemical tool used to control mosquito-spread malaria in the developing world -- DDT -- has harmful environmental consequences. Now a new article in the journal Nature tells of research on chemicals that may promise to be effective mosquito repellants by blocking the insects' ability to detect carbon dioxide.

Source: NYTimes, 08/27/2009

Direct Carbon Fuel Cells Could Offer Hope for Coal

Laboratory researchers are pursuing technologies for skipping the burning of coal altogether, and producing electricity directly from carbon via fuel cells.

Source: ClimateWire, 08/27/2009

"Cancer in Wildlife, Normally Rare, Can Signal Toxic Dangers"

"Wild animals normally are killed by cancer only in rare cases. But scientists are finding that some deadly cancers in animals--including Quebec's belugas, California sea lions and North Sea flounder--seem to be triggered or accelerated by environmental contaminants."

Source: EHN, 08/27/2009

"Water Shortage Threatens Two Million People in Southern Iraq"

"A water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq's civilisation is threatening to leave up to 2 million people in the south of the country without electricity and almost as many without drinking water."

Source: Guardian, 08/27/2009

"W.Va. Plant To Cut Storage of Deadly Chemical"

Bayer's plant at Institute, West Virginia, said that it would reduce by 80 percent its production of methyl isocyanate, the highly toxic chemical that killed thousands in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

Source: AP, 08/27/2009

Data Deficit Hampers Consumer Product Safety Commission

A new GAO report says Customs has refused to give the CPSC shipping-manifest information it has been requesting for years. The manifests are a way to track products imported into the U.S. which may have been recalled due to toxicity and/or safety issues.

Judge Orders USDA To Release Data on Wolf Program

The locations of conflicts in New Mexico and Arizona between livestock and Mexican gray wolves, which were reintroduced in 1998, will now be made public in hopes of identifying problem areas and taking preventive steps.

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