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Environmental Health Fri, 17 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/live-near-major-road-kidneys-health-air-pollution_n_3294117.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Amanda L. Chan 2013-05-17T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/obama-jobs_n_3292743.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening... Environmental Health Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/obama-jobs_n_3292743.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Reuters 2013-05-16T18:30:00Z http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/17-6 <div class='node-body'><p>U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy is holding a hearing today to review a bill that would eliminate any requirement to update federal waste disposal regulations, including regulations that are long overdue for coal ash, one of the largest industrial waste streams in the country.</p></div><p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/17-6" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Environmental Health Fri, 17 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/17-6 jacob 2013-05-17T18:30:00Z http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/health/cdc-pool-water/index.html Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized. Environmental Health Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/health/cdc-pool-water/index.html 2013-05-16T18:30:00Z http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56320603-78/utah-epa-pollution-guardians.html.csp by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 02:59PM MDT WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court in Denver on Wednesday, saying the agency failed to uphold the Clean Air Act and to protect Utahns’ health by not making the state clean up fine-particle pollution. Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ climate and energy program director, said state regulators are putting the public health behind the interests of polluters. “Clean air delayed is clean air denied,” Nichols said in a news release.... ... Environmental Health Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56320603-78/utah-epa-pollution-guardians.html.csp 2013-05-16T18:30:00Z http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmcfeeley/obama_administration_caves_to.html Matthew McFeeley, Attorney, Washington, D.C.: This afternoon, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released new proposed rules to govern fracking on publicly owned lands managed by the federal government. This includes wild places like National Forests and National Wildlife Refuges. But it also includes... Environmental Health Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmcfeeley/obama_administration_caves_to.html Matthew McFeeley 2013-05-16T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/gina-mccarthy-senate-epa_n_3286749.html?utm_hp_ref=green WASHINGTON -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, sending the... Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/gina-mccarthy-senate-epa_n_3286749.html?utm_hp_ref=green Lucia Graves 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/fecal-contamination-pool-public-e-coli_n_3287087.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green There's a lot of grossness going on in public pools. A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that more than half of... Environmental Health Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/fecal-contamination-pool-public-e-coli_n_3287087.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Amanda L. Chan 2013-05-16T18:30:00Z http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/05/16/cdc-3-of-5-pools-tested-positive-for-fecal-contamination/ <img width="150" height="112" src="http://cbsminnesota.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/pool-e1289479905396.jpg?w=150" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="pool, generic, swimming" />The Centers for Disease Control estimate that nearly 3 of 5 public swimming pools are contaminated with fecal matter. The figures from their tests of polls conducted during last summer's swim season showed about 58 percent of the samples tested positive for E. coli.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minnesota.cbslocal.com&#038;blog=15909630&#038;post=359013&#038;subd=cbsminnesota&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Environmental Health Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/05/16/cdc-3-of-5-pools-tested-positive-for-fecal-contamination/ Eric Henderson 2013-05-16T18:30:00Z http://www.nrdc.org/media/2013/130516.asp WASHINGTON (May 16, 2013) – The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, sending her nomination for consideration to the full Senate.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.nrdcfeeds.org/~ff/NRDCPressReleases?a=671sZ3GsWJU:vmYFnh3ybvg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NRDCPressReleases?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.nrdcfeeds.org/~ff/NRDCPressReleases?a=671sZ3GsWJU:vmYFnh3ybvg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NRDCPressReleases?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.nrdcfeeds.org/~ff/NRDCPressReleases?a=671sZ3GsWJU:vmYFnh3ybvg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NRDCPressReleases?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NRDCPressReleases/~4/671sZ3GsWJU" height="1" width="1"/> Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.nrdc.org/media/2013/130516.asp 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/16-1 <div class='node-body'><p>The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, Ferro Corporation, American Electric Power, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Southern Company top the list of the most hazardous polluters of U.S. surface water, according to a report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food &amp; Water Watch and the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (PERI).</p></div><p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/16-1" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/16-1 jacob 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56320603-78/utah-epa-pollution-clean.html.csp by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 07:53AM MDT WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court in Denver on Wednesday, saying the agency failed to uphold the Clean Air Act and to protect Utahns’ health by not making the state clean up fine-particle pollution. Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ climate and energy program director, said state regulators are putting the public health behind the interests of polluters. “Clean air delayed is clean air denied,” Nichols said in a news release.... ... Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56320603-78/utah-epa-pollution-clean.html.csp 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/54080 In its last term, the Barnett government introduced legislation that would curtail the rights of people with mental illness. This forum will discuss these proposals and the conditions facing people with mental illness and the services meant to support them, in WA. Speakers Sandra Boulter (Mental Health Law Centre (WA)), Sinead (Perth Inner City Youth Service), Nicole (Socialist Alliance), Sanna Andrew (Socialist Alliance, community mental health worker). Activist Centre, 15/5 Aberdeen St, Perth (next to McIver train station). Organised by Socialist Alliance Perth. Ph 9218 9608. Event date: Wed, 12/06/2013 - 6:00pm Event time: Sat, 12/01/2013 - 6:00pm Email: Phone: 08 9218 ... Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/54080 PerthGLW 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23251725/suncor-spill-still-taints-south-platte-proves-benzene Suncor spill still taints South Platte, proves benzene a tough mop up Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23251725/suncor-spill-still-taints-south-platte-proves-benzene <b>By Bruce Finley</b><br><i>The Denver Post</i> 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_23248826 Scientists at Stanford and San Francisco State believe they have discovered Typhoid Mary of the frog world: a flat, feral creature thought to have transmitted a deadly fungus from Africa to California's ponds and puddles through global trading. Environmental Health Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_23248826 editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Lisa M. Krieger<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:lkrieger@mercurynews.com'>lkrieger@mercurynews.com</a><br /></p><p class="bylinecopyright">) 2013-05-15T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adrianna-quintero/cut-carbon-pollution_b_3270451.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Climate change -- and the hotter temperatures that come with it -- only make smog worse. For children, the elderly, outdoor workers, and those without health insurance in the Hispanic community, these conditions can be deadly. Environmental Health Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adrianna-quintero/cut-carbon-pollution_b_3270451.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Adrianna Quintero 2013-05-14T18:30:00Z http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020984881_apusgreatlakeshealth.html?syndication=rss A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday. Environmental Health Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020984881_apusgreatlakeshealth.html?syndication=rss 2013-05-14T18:30:00Z http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2020984881_apusgreatlakeshealth.html A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday. Environmental Health Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2020984881_apusgreatlakeshealth.html 2013-05-14T18:30:00Z http://www.nrdc.org/media/2013/130514.asp NRDC Report: Federal Government Spent More Taxpayer Money on 2012 Extreme Weather Cleanup than on Schools or Roads Environmental Health Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.nrdc.org/media/2013/130514.asp 2013-05-13T18:30:00Z http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514821/game-theory-and-the-treatment-of-cancer/ <p>Thinking about cancer as an ecosystem is giving biologists access to a new armoury of mathematical tools for tackling it, such as evolutionary game theory</p><p><img style="vertical-align: baseline;" src="https://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/Cancer%20ecosystems.png" alt="" width="313" height="161" /></p><br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b5b118b2cdf1cdcf35c7a1ef0119b3b0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b5b118b2cdf1cdcf35c7a1ef0119b3b0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://tags.bluekai.com/site/5148"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://insight.adsrvr.org/track/evnt/?ct=0:8pyu3gz&adv=wouzn4v&fmt=3"/> Environmental Health Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514821/game-theory-and-the-treatment-of-cancer/ 2013-05-13T18:30:00Z http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/aquintero/latinos_agree_time_for_preside.html Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco: It&#8217;s been nearly three months since President Obama&#8217;s strongly worded State of the Union address, in which he vowed to tackle climate change if Congress failed to do so. U.S. Latinos cheered this commitment, knowing that they stood to suffer... Environmental Health Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/aquintero/latinos_agree_time_for_preside.html Adrianna Quintero 2013-05-13T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/west-nile-virus-deaths_n_3268946.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green NEW YORK &mdash; U.S. health officials say last year was the worst ever for West Nile virus deaths. The final tally reported Monday was 286... Environmental Health Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/west-nile-virus-deaths_n_3268946.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green AP 2013-05-13T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-spataro/dr-jill-stein-gets-person_b_3262973.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Stein made a full recovery, but she was never the same when it came to how she wanted to run her life. She transitioned from trying to make change as a non-partisan educator and physician to a full-fledged advocate. Ten years later, she entered politics with the Green Party. Environmental Health Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-spataro/dr-jill-stein-gets-person_b_3262973.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Joanne Spataro 2013-05-13T18:30:00Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/eat-insects-obesity-united-nations-report_n_3266136.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green By Catherine Hornby ROME (Reuters) - The thought of eating beetles, caterpillars and ants may give you the creeps, but the authors of a U.N.... Environmental Health Sun, 12 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/eat-insects-obesity-united-nations-report_n_3266136.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green Reuters 2013-05-12T18:30:00Z