"Four Years After Deadly Blast, Tesoro Mostly Unscathed"
"It was the state’s worst industrial accident in nearly 50 years."
Source: KUOW/NPR, 07/09/2014
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"Going, Going, Almost Gone: A Worm Verges On Extinction"
"Guinea worm is about as close to a real-life Alien event as you can get — a parasitic worm mates inside a person's abdomen, grows up to 3-feet long and then exits (painfully) from a blister. But the worm's final chapter is near: The world is closer than ever to wiping the parasite off the face of the Earth."
Source: NPR, 07/09/2014
"Six Vials of Smallpox Discovered in Laboratory Near Washington"
"Scientists said Tuesday that six glass vials found in a storeroom in a government laboratory outside Washington contained the smallpox virus. It was the second incident in a month that revealed government mishandling of potentially deadly infectious agents."
Source: NY Times, 07/09/2014
"Iraq Tells UN 'Terrorist Groups' Seized Former Chemical Weapons Depot"
"Iraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to 'armed terrorist groups' and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country's U.N. envoy told the United Nations."
Source: Reuters, 07/09/2014
Formula E: Does Electric Car Racing Herald a New Era for Motor Sport?
"The noise is part spaceship, part jet engine and part Tron bike, according to Alex Tai, the head of Virgin’s Formula E racing team. The high-powered, all-electric cars zooming around the Donington Park race track are certainly far quieter than the chest-rumbling, ear-splitting noise that hits Formula One fans."
Source: Guardian, 07/08/2014
"Outcry Prompts Expedited Plan To Move Fuel at Kewaunee Nuclear Plant"
"The Kewaunee nuclear power plant stopped producing electricity more than a year ago, but it left behind highly hazardous waste that has no place to go."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 07/08/2014
"Oil Pipeline Expansion Presents A Whale Of A Problem"
"Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand a pipeline pose major environmental threats -- especially to whale populations still reeling from past oil spills and noise pollution."
Source: MintPress News, 07/08/2014
"Typhoon Neoguri Sweeps Across Japan's Okinawa Prefecture"
"TOKYO — A giant typhoon was sweeping across Japan's Okinawa prefecture Tuesday, bringing with it powerful winds, high waves and heavy rains, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue its highest warning."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 07/08/2014
"Virus Plagues the Pork Industry, and Environmentalists"
"The bodies are piling up fast. A deadly virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PEDv, is estimated to have killed, on average, more than 100,000 piglets and young hogs each week since it first showed up in Iowa in May 2013, wreaking havoc on the pork industry."
Source: NY Times, 07/08/2014
"DOE: Outside Groups Spent Lavishly on Top Officials' Global Travel"
"Top Energy Department officials have been taking some pricey trips lately, thanks to outside groups helping to fund their travel to destinations like Bermuda, Taipei, Tokyo, Brussels and New Delhi."
Source: Greenwire, 07/08/2014
