"Dreams Dashed on Contaminated Land"
City leaders celebrated the ground-breaking for New Bedford High School in 1970, apparently not knowing the risks of building it on a toxic dump.
Source: South Coast Today, 12/21/2009
Search results
"Toxic Flame Retardant Will Be Phased Out by 2014"
"The two U.S. producers of the toxic flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) ... and the largest U.S. importer of this chemical ... today announced commitments to phase out the chemical in the United States."
Source: ENS, 12/21/2009
Puget Sound Sewage Spill Raises Issues
"Experts say the 10 million gallons of untreated wastewater that poured into Puget Sound off Magnolia last week, while unacceptable, pales when compared with the toxic insults legally funneled into the Sound every day."
Source: Seattle Times, 12/21/2009
"Autism Numbers Are Rising. The Question is Why?"
"One in 110 American children are considered to fall somewhere along the autism spectrum, according to the latest report released by the federal government. The new figure, which was released initially in October, comes from the most comprehensive set of data yet on the developmental health of eight-year-olds."
Source: TIME, 12/21/2009
"A Year After Tenn. Disaster, Fight Over Coal-Ash Rules Just Beginning"
"Today, as the anniversary of the Kingston mess approaches, the battle over potential new rules to protect coalfield communities and the environment from the dangers of toxic coal ash is just getting started."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 12/21/2009
"Fear of Violence Grows in Mountaintop Mining Fight"
"It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack."
Source: AP, 12/21/2009
"An Air of Frustration for Europe at Climate Talks"
"COPENHAGEN — By early Saturday morning, the atmosphere at the European Union pavilion at the Bella Center had turned funereal."
Source: NYTimes, 12/21/2009
"Climate Summit Hopes Less Is More"
"When two weeks of climate negotiations finally wound to an overtime finish in Copenhagen, the goal of a new binding treaty to combat global warming still looked elusively far away. And, even for climate activists, the question was: 'Is that so bad?'"
Source: LA Times, 12/21/2009
"A Grudging Accord in Climate Talks"
"After two weeks of delays, theatrics and last-minute deal-making, the United Nations climate change talks concluded here early Saturday morning with a grudging agreement by the participants to “take note” of a pact shaped by five major nations."
Source: NYTimes, 12/21/2009
"As Patent Ends, a Seed’s Use Will Survive"
"Facing antitrust scrutiny over its practices in the biotechnology seed business, Monsanto has said it will not stand in the way of farmers eventually using lower cost alternatives to its genetically modified soybeans."
Source: NYTimes, 12/18/2009
Advertisement 
