Health and Environment
Jay Yarow; Aug. 8, 2009, 7:35 PM; New York Times The military analysts the Times spoke to say that climate issues could destabilize regions, increase terrorism, and destroy governments. With extreme weather comes displacement. As people have to leave their homes, the government steps in with aid. Further, as new groups of people are forced to live together there’s a risk of warfare. CONTINUE
TRACY DAUB, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Scientists are unsure how the toxic components of BFRs sprayed onto consumer products enter into the environment and into animal and human systems. What is certain, however, is that these chemicals are building up in humans, especially in breast milk, at a rate that concerns toxicologists. In response to increasing concerns about the safety of these compounds, many countries have begun to regulate. . . CONTINUE
WWF’s Dr. Neil Hamilton on Global Warming in the Arctic the Director of the International Arctic Program ice thickness has decreased dramatically since 2003: It’s now about half as thick. In its report “Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air,” the Union of Concerned Scientists slammed ExxonMobil for lying: “underwriting the most sophisticated disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry,” as well as for “funneling about $16 million between 1998 and 2005. . . CONTINUE
Think Tank Led By Former U.N. Secretary General Also Says World Loses $125B Annually From Global Warming May 29, 2009 (CBS/AP) A think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says that around 300,000 people die each year from disasters related to climate change. The Global Humanitarian Forum also estimates that global warming seriously affects 325 million people and causes $125 billion in economic losses each year. Annan says. . . CONTINUE
EPA against limiting rocket fuel ingredient in water — CNN September 22, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there’s no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. EPA reached the conclusion in a draft regulatory document not yet made public but reviewed Monday by The Associated Press. Jeremy Symons, who represented the Environmental. . . CONTINUE
Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US by 3 degrees in 50 years By SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer, September 4, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday. These. . . CONTINUE
More evidence of global warming. By Charmaine Noronha | The Associated Press, September 4, 2008 TORONTO – A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer weather is changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf. . . CONTINUE
Arctic sea ice at second lowest level in 30 years By Seth Borenstein and Dan Joling, The Associated Press, August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON – More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming “tipping point” in the Arctic seems to be happening before our eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years. With about three weeks left in the. . . CONTINUE
July 25 2008 A new study by researchers at Columbia University’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) concludes that shutting down coal-fired power plants has a direct, positive impact on infant brain development. The study, published in the July 14th edition of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, tracked the development of two groups of children in China – one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in. . . CONTINUE
The health of thousands of Americans compromised to protect the EPA administrator’s corporate “friends”; (confirmed by EPA’s inspector general)* “far more contaminated than many Superfund sites, where respirators and moon suits are mandatory” Worse, this proves to be Bush’s universal mission – carried out by all his appointees, all his administration and starting in late June 2008, he is dragging McCain into it! from Crimes Against Nature, a book by. . . CONTINUE
10 July 2008 In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), former White House official Jason Burnett revealed that Vice President Cheney’s office deleted portions of the testimony of Center for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding, who testified last year about the consequences of climate change on public health. In a press conference yesterday, Boxer charged that White House spokesperson Dana Perino had ‘lied’ about the rationale behind the editing. . . CONTINUE
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer, June 3, 2008 LOS ANGELES – Seven endangered California condors — about 20 percent of Southern California’s population — have been found with lead poisoning. The birds started turning up sick about a month ago during random trappings at Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge in the San Joaquin Valley. One of the birds died during treatment at the Los Angeles Zoo and four others. . . CONTINUE
February 8th, 2008 Court Rules EPA Violated the Law by Evading Required Power Plant Mercury Reductions The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rebuked EPA for attempting to create an illegal loophole for the power generating industry, … EPA unlawfully decided to remove power plants from the most protective requirements of the Clean Air Act, “This decision is a victory for the. . . CONTINUE
