Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT http://www.envirolink.org en Copyright 1992-2009 The EnviroLink Network The EnviroLink News Service compiles the most relevant news stories of interest to the global environmental community from sources around the Internet. newsdesk@envirolink.org support@envirolink.org http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906131403030.85467 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT The Obama administration has decided to keep secret the locations of nearly four dozen coal ash storage sites that pose a threat to people living nearby. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906131403220.665981 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT The Obama administration promised tougher oversight of strip mining in Appalachia yesterday and will require case-by-case scrutiny of mining companies' requests to fill streams with rock blasted off mountains EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906131403130.453131 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT About 916 pits used by Texaco Petroleum and PetroEcuador are at the centre of what is shaping up to be the biggest environmental lawsuit in history, with $27bn in potential damages sought against Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906120928450.644944 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to compensate people affected by the fallout. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906120928530.984954 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT New Jersey scientists are urging the state to adopt the strictest levels ever for Chromium-6, the deadly carcinogen linked to lung cancer and which contaminates more than 200 former industrial properties in Hudson County. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906120928290.0261023 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT Obama promised to end political meddling in scientific decisions, but some critics say the White House botched an early test on a key question of public health: how to assess the danger of industrial chemicals. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906012035050.350278 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT The science academies of 70 countries called on world leaders to explicitly recognise the dangers posed to the oceans of rising CO2 levels, which they warn are irreversible and could cause severe damage by 2050, or even earlier, if emissions carry on as they are. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906012034570.147518 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT Call major environmental groups and ask them about Roger Bate. The reply is always: Who? Few know he's the man who spread the myth that environmentalists, by fighting to ban DDT, have heartlessly caused millions of malaria deaths worldwide. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906012035260.169621 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT A three-year survey by Greenpeace shows that western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is leading to intensified deforestation of the Amazon. Cattle ranching poses the biggest threat to the original Amazon forest. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200906012036040.418197 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:12 EDT At least 55 whales stranded on a beach near Cape Town were put down or died after rescue teams failed to return them to the ocean, a sea rescue institute said on Sunday. EnviroLink