Latest: Obama Administration To Continue Navajo Nation Uranium Cleanup
"The EPA has already spent $100 million to remediate decades of mining."
Source: High Country News, 08/01/2016
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"GMO Wheat Found In Washington State Could Affect US Trade"
"Genetically modified wheat not approved for sale or commercial production in the United States has been found growing in a field in Washington state, agriculture officials said Friday, posing a possible risk to trade with countries concerned about engineered food."
Source: AP, 08/01/2016
"Zika Cases in Puerto Rico Are Skyrocketing"
"The Zika epidemic that has spread from Brazil to the rest of Latin America is now raging in Puerto Rico — and the island’s response is in chaos."
Source: NY Times, 08/01/2016
"Who Is Polluting Rio’s Bay?"
"A major part of Rio’s winning Olympic bid was a plan to capture and treat 80 percent of the sewage that flows into Guanabara Bay, something organizers now admit will not happen — certainly not by August, if ever."
Source: NY Times, 07/29/2016
Brazil, Where a Food Revolution Is Changing the Way People Eat
"How the country challenged the junk-food industry and became a global leader in the battle against obesity."
Source: The Nation, 07/29/2016
"Environmentalists Take Aim At TransCanada Pipeline Project"
"Environmentalists are again taking aim at the company that proposed the Keystone XL pipeline — this time for another of its projects they fear would send hundreds of supertankers laden with crude oil down the Atlantic coast to refineries in Texas and Louisiana."
Source: AP, 07/29/2016
"Chernobyl’s Atomic Wasteland May Be Reborn With Solar Energy"
"Thirty years after atomic fallout from the Chernobyl meltdown rendered an area the size of Luxembourg uninhabitable for centuries, Ukraine is seeking investors to develop solar power near the defunct Soviet reactors."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/29/2016
"Federal Coal Ash Case Could Impact Cleanups Beyond Virginia"
"A federal judge in Virginia could soon decide a potentially landmark case determining whether power plants can be held accountable for contaminating surface waters with toxic chemicals that leached into the ground from coal ash pits."
Source: Bay Journal, 07/29/2016
"California Coastline Wildfire Is Big And Getting Bigger"
"A wildfire burning along California's Big Sur coastline keeps growing a week after it broke out, and looks to be a problem for the scenic region for weeks to come."
Source: AP, 07/29/2016
"Clinton Wants To End ‘Halliburton Loophole’ On Fracking, Adviser Says"
"Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton would push Congress to reverse a 2005 measure that exempts hydraulic fracturing from certain federal environmental standards, a top adviser said."
Source: The Hill, 07/29/2016
