Environmental Health News
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Environmental Health News
  • Radioactive waste contaminating Canadian water supply: Report.
    Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating local Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released on Friday.

  • Work on water treatment plant begins.
    Town residents are about a year away from the completion of a new water treatment facility. The official ground-breaking ceremony was held Tuesday, Nov. 17, on a picture perfect day at the plant's future site at 500 Route 107.

  • Is electro smog causing your headache?
    Swindon will become Britain's first Wi-Fi town, and no doubt many other towns will follow. But these new grids will add immeasurably to the amount of electromagnetic radiation in the air - with potentially disastrous consequences for the nation's health.

  • Australian uranium to China, a worry for many reasons .
    Whistleblowers are being punished for raising legitimate concerns about nuclear contamination and slack environmental and workplace safety practices. It is into this world that Australia has just sent its second shipment of uranium.

  • Harvesting gas from the dairy air.
    A California utility is aggressively developing power sources cleaner than coal--natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar...and now even cow manure. But Pacific Gas & Electric isn't turning green totally on its own. It's the law.

  • Odds stacked against new German power stations.
    Power generators looking to expand must grapple with public opposition to coal over its carbon emissions, and delays to a defined future for nuclear energy's as the new government starts to work out its energy policy.

  • Climate change plan 'could ruin Australia.'
    Australia will go broke and become the laughing stock of the world if politicians ignore basic science on climate change, a leading global warming sceptic says.

  • Containing risk.
    The ad-hoc proliferation of high-security biological labs must be controlled, and should be tied in more closely to broader research and public-health goals.

  • Enterprise is not the enemy.
    There is no incompatibility between private enterprise or capitalism and the environment. The success of capitalism in raising living standards has been used by some Greens to equate it with environmental degradation.

  • Nuclear regulatory system needs restructuring.
    The separation of promotion and regulation of atomic energy use is a fundamental rule of nuclear power administration and an internationally accepted concept.

  • Wake up, Greens, and savour the organic pork belly.
    It's clear, as long as green parties allow themselves to be identified as socially radical they'll remain as unelectable as carrot coleslaw.

  • Senate to put off climate bill until spring.
    Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring--in a sign of weakening political will to tackle a long-term environmental issue at a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty.

  • Electricity-hungry Vietnam looks to join nuclear club.
    Vietnam is expected to take a key step towards meeting its burgeoning appetite for electricity by paving the way for its first nuclear power plant, but debate is still raging over the controversial project.

  • Coal towns remain the heartbeat of China's economy.
    Amid the glowing reports of new wind farms and investment in solar photovoltaics throughout China, it's easy to forget that cities like Datong, the coal capital of China, are still the heart of this country.

  • Md. nuclear power plant criticized.
    As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation's race to reduce pollution.

  • District 18 plays down radon test results.
    Nine rooms in the Stanley School Complex have tested positive for radon levels higher than what's considered acceptable by Health Canada.

  • Sulfide mining issue subject of initiative.
    Proponents of a Michigan ballot initiative currently being circulated say it will protect water without causing the loss of jobs, while opponents say it will effectively end mining in the state.

  • Bad septic system can poison wells.
    Most Star Valley residents get their water from a well, flush their toilets into to a septic system and have never tested their groundwater.

  • S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter.
    Thanks to yet another of Gavin Newsom's pre-governor's-race-dropout "green" programs, San Francisco taxpayers have actually paid to greenwash a major toxic polluter.

  • Are cell phones, grid the next cigarettes?
    Like cigarettes, unfortunately, there may be a dark side to cell phones.


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