From our correspondent Christine Heinrichs:
Toxic waste pits overflow, this one into Denton Creek in Texas, which is a watershed for the Metroplex. Blogger Sharon Wilson, http://txsharon.blogspot.com/, created this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GXwdNDL7w on the situation in which one farm family finds itself.
After the video was posted, Aruba sent a truck out and sucked up all [...]
The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found.
The report comes amid growing concern that no one is made to pay for [...]
Scientists report that dolphins suffer from diseases similar to those found in humans, and the mammals’ experiences could shed light on the effects that contaminated water and seafood have on people.
Researchers from the Marine Animal Disease Lab at the University of Florida have found at least new 50 viruses in dolphins, most of which [...]
For years, the battle over airboat noise has raged in Alachua County as the boats grew more popular and lakefront property grew more populated. That’s not unique in Florida, where Brevard, Citrus, Lake, Osceola and Polk are among the counties that have enacted airboat curfews because of noise complaints.
via For years, the battle over airboat [...]
Like Murkowski and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln is demonstrating a shocking disregard for her state’s interests, the health of her constituents, and a misunderstanding of why America has been losing jobs to China and India. Her support for the Dirty Air Act is an act of allegiance to polluters…
Lincoln has taken nearly a million [...]
Litigation Against Koppers Pollution Town Hall Meeting
Mon., Jan. 18th @ 6:30 pm Paramout Plaza Hotel, 2900 SW 13th Street.
Cabot-Koppers Gainesville Superfund Site Litigation Group see: gainesvillesuperfundlawyers.com organized by Stephen Foster Neighborhood Protection Grp./Gainesville’s United Neighborhoods, rsvp Maria Parsons 352-682-1878
Public Meeting!
Protect Gainesville’s Citizens, Inc. is holding two Community Involvement meetings in January. The purpose of these meetings is to solicit input from our community about how we would like to use the EPA’s TAG grant. In specific the purpose of the TAG grant is to provide funds to contract with independent technical advisor’s to interpret [...]
Living on Earth, NPR, talks with Joe Mangano of Radiation and Public Health about radiation from Nuclear Power Plants. I did a story on children with cancer living in the shadow of a nuclear power plant for E Magazine in 2004.
“We found that close to nuclear plants the levels of strontium-90 are considerable higher [...]
Another interesting story from science journalist DeLene Beeland:
“…Leaf litter is piled up in drifts on the cave floor. The camera zooms in, and suddenly you realize these are not leaves… they are bats: hundreds and hundreds of dead bats. The footage is all the sadder because this cave houses the largest colony of hibernating bats [...]
Thinking of moving? Check this map before you make a deposit on the new place to make sure you’re not landing in an environmentally toxic neighborhood. Oddly, the Koppers Superfund site in Gainesville, FL does not appear on the map, so I question its validity:
“The EPA has released a new interactive map that lays out [...]
