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Environmental Health News
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Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
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Environmentalists gird for battle with Bush over rule changes.
Environmentalists are bracing for a final battle with the Bush administration over its efforts to weaken clean water, air and toxic waste regulations before a new president moves into the White House.
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Lead damages lawsuit settled.
One of Baltimore's biggest ground rent owners has agreed to a $1.53 million settlement of a lawsuit that accused him of living lavishly from ground-rent income, while claiming he was too poor to compensate former tenants harmed by exposure to lead paint.
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Study: Some sunscreens overpromise on protection.
The Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based nonprofit, has released an investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreens that says four out of five don't adequately protect consumers and may contain harmful chemicals.
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Greenpeace: Game consoles rank ?dirtiest? among electronic gadgets.
The United Nations estimated that 50 metric tons of electronic waste are produced every year, making e-waste the fastest growing waste stream in the world.
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Home dangers: Harmful to your kids.
From plastic water bottles to shower curtains, author Libby McDonald says they're filled with environmental toxins; but her new rule book may be too long for some moms to handle.
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Water lab studies ecosystems.
Water is set to become this century's oil. As we celebrate Canada Day this week, Sun Media takes a look at a national heritage Canadians jealously guard, but don't fully understand.
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Soil tests now done.
Soil test results for chemical contamination at Petrolia's community centre are now complete, but neither the town nor Ontario's Environment Ministry are prepared to release them.
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Banning uranium exploration pleases mayor of N.B. village.
High uranium prices and lax exploration rules have been fueling strong exploration activity in New Brunswick in recent months.
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New provisions added to lead law.
New provisions in Vermont's existing law to prevent lead poisoning took effect earlier in the week.
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Clean water, at a cost.
The township wants to help several homeowners with arsenic-contaminated wells hook up to a public water system without getting a bill in the mail.
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Lake sediment safe, tests show.
After running a plethora of tests on Avis Mill Lake here, officials say results reveal that lake sediment is not toxic and will be dredged to increase the depth of the waterway.
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Where will this testing lead?
After 789 sources of water in the Jersey City public schools were tested for lead starting in May, a total of 22 sources showed elevated levels of the toxic element and have been shut off, with results being continuously released including as late as this past Thursday.
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Bowling Green State University program helps people, institutions get rid of mercury.
The program was founded in 1998, several years after a staff geologist at the university saw mercury dripping through the ceiling of his laboratory while the floors above him were being renovated.
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Leadville Superfund case settled.
A settlement was filed in Denver's federal district court Wednesday over environmental damage in an 18-square-mile area in and around Leadville, which was mined for 150 years.
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Newport residents petition DEQ about discharge from Georgia-Pacific plant.
Three years after coastal residents took their worries to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality about the wastewater Georgia-Pacific pumps into the ocean, the agency soon might be ready to take action.
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Mind That Child.
In most cases it is the same street children that we see eating from garbage cans that visit dumpsites.
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'Energy minutemen' not who Hatch thinks they are.
Sen. Orrin Hatch needs a history lesson. America's minutemen were our defenders on the front line--and oil shale development is front line only as a means of destroying Utah's remaining wild land.
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Will Richmond, Ca, stand up to Chevron?
The City of Richmond may be the first to stand up the Chevron this month if it turns down the company?s effort to refine dirty crude oil. If not, the city will be far more polluted than it already is, and a serious health problems, for all.
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Along with beauty, fireworks create a beastly mix of pollutants.
When the rockets and the bombs burst in the air tonight, spectators will experience more than a spectacular show celebrating America's birthday.
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Mayor, Falk decry proposed power plant's effect on Dane County.
Operating Alliant's proposed 300-megawatt, largely coal-fired power plant along the Mississippi River would worsen air quality in Dane County, which is already in violation of federal standards for particulate and ozone pollution.
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