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updated Apr 03, 2009 by sean foley

Environmental Health News Updates

Environmental Health News ( Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org )
Activists fight green projects, seeing U.N. plot. Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.
Obama proposes rollback of shale plans for Rocky Mountain West. The Interior Department today announced plans to significantly downsize a George W. Bush administration plan to develop oil shale in the West, a move likely to spark fury among Capitol Hill Republicans.
US to require disclosure of fracking fluids on public land. The U.S. government will require natural gas drillers to disclose which chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing on public lands, according to draft rules crafted by the Interior Department.
Scientists win historic battle over oilsands monitoring. While the Canadian and provincial governments at first proposed that a plan to implement monitoring of oilsands extraction be controlled by the government and conducted, in part, by an industry-financed operation, a group of scientists insisted that the monitoring be independent and include aboriginal participation. The scientists prevailed.
Nuclear waste fracas that just won't go away. Like a science fiction fantasy, the Yucca Mountain repository was intended as a permanent store for a small mountain of lethal waste accumulated in more than half a century of American nuclear activity, civilian and military.
Keystone pipeline lobbied on by nearly everyone. It’s no surprise that oil companies, labor unions, environmental groups and an association of pipe manufacturers would want to lobby Congress about the Keystone XL pipeline. But Quakers? The American Jewish Committee? The makers of John Deere tractors?
Volunteers gathering mussels to gauge health of shoreline waters. The tiny black bivalves dislodged on a frigid afternoon were too puny for any self-respecting chef to serve up on a steaming plate. No, these mussels were headed for an eventual trip to a Texas lab where scientists plan to sample their tissues for more than 100 contaminants.
Scientists say contamination of ocean fish minimal so far. The massive radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has sparked fear in seafood lovers and commercial fishermen both at home and abroad, and some worry the contamination could pass through and even become more concentrated in the ocean food chain.
Traffic-related asthma costs two cities big money. Traffic pollution may cost two California cities millions each year in managing children's asthma, a new study suggests.
Clean air measure faces uncertain future. The future air quality in Allegheny County may be determined by pending federal standards concerning air pollution that crosses state lines.

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