NewsRack: 'Impacts' news in 'Sustainability-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Living Close To Major Road Could Be Bad For Your Kidneys	18.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
People who live close to a major road may have less healthy kidneys than people who live farther away, according to a new study. Researchers...
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After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action	18.5.2013	NPR News
Proposals for chemical plants to use "inherently safer" design practices have been blocked by industry executives and their allies in Congress, despite deadly accidents and the risk of a potential terrorist attack that could harm an entire community or city.
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Obama Tries Hard To Change The Subject	17.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening...
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Are Recessions Good for Your Health?	17.5.2013	Yahoo: Politics
With the recovery underway, things are starting to look up. Consumer confidence rose to a six-year high on Friday, the housing sector is improving, the economic gears are turning. But there may also be a less-welcome rebound: fatalities could rise.
OAS drug study eyes decriminalization	17.5.2013	World
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A new Organization of American States study commissioned in response to calls by some Latin American leaders for rethinking the drug war discusses possible decriminalization of consumption of marijuana as part of a public health approach.
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Yuck! What's in your pool water	17.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
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.
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Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts	17.5.2013	American Prospect
This week, the Senate and House committees in charge of agriculture passed farm bills —mammoth bills that will last for five years if passed and signed—and sent them to their chamber floors. The bills handle farm policy, but the vast majority of their spending goes to a program that has proven a rich target for a Washington drunk on spending cuts—the food stamp program. The House bill would lower benefits across the board, cutting a fourth of the program’s $80 billion budget . The Senate bill would trim $4.4 billion from food stamps. Many of the cuts in both bills come from getting rid of a program that allowed states to streamline the ways they provide assistance to the poor. In true bureaucratic fashion, the program has an unwieldy name: “Categorical Eligibility.” Conservative lawmakers call it “automatic eligibility” to make it sound as though people who aren’t poor are finding food stamp cards in their mailboxes. In reality, the federal government is allowing states to be more generous ...
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Experts Affirm the Benefits and Importance of California's Clean Energy and Climate Leadership	17.5.2013	Switchboard, from NRDC
Stefanie Tanenhaus, MAP Energy Fellow, San Francisco: In the face of daunting challenges, California stands strong as a national leader on climate action, according to experts who testified today at a state Senate committee hearing on climate change and implementation of the state’s clean energy law, AB...
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New study: fracking hasn't polluted Arkansas water	17.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new study says natural gas drilling, or fracking, hasn't contaminated drinking water wells in Arkansas but researchers say the geology there is more of a natural barrier to pollution than in other areas where drilling takes place.
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Granting Corporate America a License to Kill	16.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
David Reingold Regulations stink, right? Lots of politicians run on promises that they’ll get rid of them to make way for an economic boom. Well, have you ever considered what our world would look like without regulations? read more
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License to Kill	16.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
David Reingold Regulations stink, right? Lots of politicians run on promises that they’ll get rid of them to make way for an economic boom. Well, have you ever considered what our world would look like without regulations? read more
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Food supply under assault as climate heats up	16.5.2013	MSNBC
Food supply under assault as climate heats up
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Lisa Borden: 50 Simple Things I Do To Reduce	16.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
I must admit, I would have never guessed that reducing would have been a hobby of mine, but, once I started, I realized that I was good at it, and it felt good too. I hope that what I've done (so far, because it's a work in progress) inspires you on your own path of living a little bit lighter.
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Clashes as Palestinians mark 65 years since displacement	16.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Nation
Clashes as Palestinians mark 65 years since displacement
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Morrison: Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD	15.5.2013	LA Times: Opinion
As head of the L.A. County Department of Public Health, he's responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands). If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" twice). Dr. Jonathan Fielding heads L.A. County's Department of Public Health , which is bigger than some states' health departments. A pediatrician by training and the head of the county's health programs since 1998, Fielding is such a believer that he and his wife, Karin, turned savvy investments into a $50-million gift last year to UCLA's School of Public Health. Here he takes the temperature of the medical and political aspects of his work.
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Palestinians rally to commemorate their displacement in 1948 Mideast war	15.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Thousands of Palestinians mark 65 years since displacement	15.5.2013	Iraq
By Noah Browning RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday during demonstrations to mark 65 years since what they call the Nakba (Catastrophe) when Israel's creation caused many to lose their homes and become refugees. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to return to the region on Tuesday in another bid to revive peace talks frozen since 2010. ...
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Naqba — Commemorating a Self-Inflicted Tragedy	15.5.2013	American Spectator
Today, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over the years, mark what they call the naqba (Arabic for catastrophe). It was on this day 65 years ago that Israel came into existence upon the expiry of British rule under a League of Nations mandate. That juxtaposition of Israel and naqba in not accidental. We are meant to understand that Israel’s creation caused the displacement of hundreds of thousand of Palestinian Arabs. But the truth is different. A British document from early 1948, declassified only weeks ago, tells the story : “the Arabs have suffered a series of overwhelming defeats…. Jewish victories … have reduced Arab morale to zero and, following the cowardly example of their inept leaders, they are fleeing from the mixed areas in their thousands.” In other words, Jew and Arabs, including irregular foreign militias from neighboring states, were already fighting and Arabs fleeing even before Israel had sovereign existence. Thus, on May 15, what ...
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Palestinians mark their 1948 displacement	15.5.2013	Mideast Conflict
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians are rallying in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to mark the 65th anniversary of their displacement in the war that followed the creation of the state of Israel. ...
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International Day of Families - 15th May	15.5.2013	Earth Times
Family-related provisions are usually important components of UN policy decisions since they form part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development. UN International Day of Families has been celebrated on 15th May every year since 1995. It can be celebrated in many ways, but whatever the emphasis might be, it is important to remember that the family unit has great value and is something that should be cherished.
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