"Study Links Mountaintop Removal Dust To Cancer"
"A new West Virginia University study has found that dust from mountaintop removal coal-mining operations promotes the growth of lung cancer tumors."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 10/17/2014
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"Grid: Exploring the 'Insecure By Design' Blind Spot in Industrial Systems"
"While cyberattackers and defenders duel for advantage in ever-more-complex digital battlegrounds, a set of basic vulnerabilities affecting power grids, factories and pipelines has gone largely unaddressed."
Source: EnergyWire, 10/17/2014
"Air Pollution: EPA Targets Industry's Defense for 'off-The-Book' Emissions"
"Texas environmentalists faced off in court this year against a coal-fired power plant with more than 6,500 alleged exceedances of the federal Clean Air Act limits on opacity, an indicator of fine airborne soot."
Source: Greenwire, 10/17/2014
"Powerful Pacific Storm Churns Toward Hawaii"
"A powerful Pacific storm predicted to grow to hurricane force churned toward Hawaii, bringing with it heavy rains and potentially destructive winds that could begin hitting the state later Friday."
Source: AP, 10/17/2014
"NRC Staff: Yucca Mountain Could Meet Safety Needs"
"A long-awaited report issued Thursday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found the Yucca Mountain site — once considered by the government but halted by the Obama administration — could be safe to store nuclear waste."
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal, 10/17/2014
"Activists Use GPS To Track Illegal Loggers in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest"
"Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon"
Source: Guardian, 10/16/2014
"The Secret Chemicals in Perfume Are About To Be Unbottled"
"SC Johnson will be the first large company to disclose all fragrance ingredients in products. Could this be the end of trade-secret protection for the fragrance industry? "
Source: Guardian, 10/16/2014
"Former Workers, Whistleblowers Shed Light on Nuclear Site Safety Setbacks"
"Former employees at Hanford, the country's most contaminated nuclear waste site, discuss its disturbing safety culture"
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/16/2014
"Greens Launch Youth Voter Turnout Drive"
"Six organizations are teaming up to visit college campuses and encourage young people to vote in the name of environmental protection."
Source: The Hill, 10/16/2014
"U.S. Considers Climate Change Plan That Would Mandate Emission Cuts"
"The United States is considering a proposal to combat climate change that would require countries to offer plans for curtailing greenhouse gas emissions on a certain schedule but would leave it to individual nations to determine how deep their cuts would be, said Todd Stern, the nation’s chief climate negotiator."
Source: LA Times, 10/16/2014
