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06/13/2009
Associated Press
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Locations of high-risk coal ash sites kept secret. - The Obama administration has decided to keep secret the locations of nearly four dozen coal ash storage sites that pose a threat ...
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06/13/2009
Louisville Courier-Journal
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U.S. vows strict mountaintop mine oversight. - The Obama administration promised tougher oversight of strip mining in Appalachia yesterday and will require case-by-case scrutiny of mining companies' requests to ...
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06/13/2009
London Financial Times
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Chevron fights Ecuador pollution lawsuit. - About 916 pits used by Texaco Petroleum and PetroEcuador are at the centre of what is shaping up to be the biggest ...
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06/12/2009
BBC
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France to pay nuclear test compensation. - Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to compensate people affected by the fallout. ...
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06/12/2009
Newark Star-Ledger
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N.J. scientists urge state to adopt strictest levels for cancer-linked chromium. - New Jersey scientists are urging the state to adopt the strictest levels ever for Chromium-6, the deadly carcinogen linked to lung cancer ...
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06/12/2009
Los Angeles Times
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EPA chemical database rules are a political hazard, critics say. - Obama promised to end political meddling in scientific decisions, but some critics say the White House botched an early test on a ...
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06/01/2009
London Daily Telegraph
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CO2 levels may cause underwater catastrophe. - The science academies of 70 countries called on world leaders to explicitly recognise the dangers posed to the oceans of rising CO2 ...
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06/01/2009
Natural Resources News Service
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Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science. - Call major environmental groups and ask them about Roger Bate. The reply is always: Who? Few know he's the man who spread ...
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06/01/2009
London Guardian
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Amazon rainforests pay the price as demand for beef soars. - A three-year survey by Greenpeace shows that western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is leading to ...
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06/01/2009
ENN
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55 whales die after mass beaching in South Africa - At least 55 whales stranded on a beach near Cape Town were put down or died after rescue teams failed to return ...
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05/02/2009
London Independent
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The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests? - You may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction ...
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05/02/2009
The Independent
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Christmas Island bat 'months from extinction' - Australia's rarest mammal, the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, is months away from extinction, and wildlife experts say the government is failing to ...
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05/02/2009
ScienceDaily.com
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Carbon Balance Of Terrestrial Ecosystems In China - During the 1980s and 1990s, China showed a net carbon sink of 0.19–0.26 Pg carbon (PgC), which is smaller than that in ...
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05/02/2009
Environmental Health News
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Big increase in ocean mercury found; study predicts more human threat from fish. - Mercury levels in the Pacific Ocean will rise by 50 percent within the next few decades as emissions from coal-fired power plants ...
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05/02/2009
Washington Post
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EPA seeks rules for utilities' polluted runoff. - Faced with new evidence that utilities across the country are dumping toxic sludge into waterways, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ...
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