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"Y-12: Poster Child for a Dysfunctional Nuclear Weapons Complex"

The protest by an 83-year-old nun is the least of the problems at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Unsafe, obsolete, and insecure, it is a nuclear disaster waiting to happen. The Y-12 Security Complex is the poster child for much of what ails the decaying weapons complex across the U.S. Although Y-12 has not produced weapons for some 25 years, its annual budgets have increased by nearly 50 percent since 1997, to more than $1 billion a year.

Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 08/12/2014

"Scientists Exploring Offshore Canyons for Atlantic Deep-Sea Corals"

"Seventy miles off Ocean City, scientists aboard the federal research vessel Henry B. Bigelow are exploring a lush underwater landscape that until recently few would have imagined — colorful corals clinging to the rocky slopes of deep-sea canyons."

Source: Baltimore Sun, 08/12/2014

"L.A. Faces $15 Billion Bill as Pipes Spring Leaks: Cities"

"Los Angeles is showing its age, and city officials don’t have plans for financing the facelift."

Source: Bloomberg, 08/12/2014

"Protesters Urge Hasty Cleanup at Abandoned Chemical Plant"

"Residents from a modest southeast Houston neighborhood pointed Sunday toward a lagoon of algae-covered water with a pungent chemical smell that filled the parking lot of an abandoned cleaning facility for chemical trucks. Only some weeds and a cyclone fence separate the facility from homes and a charter school."

Source: Houston Chronicle, 08/12/2014

NAFTA Body Wants To Probe Enforcement of Canadian Oilsands Laws

"Environment Canada says the watchdog does not have the authority to investigate complaints made in 2010 alleging that tarsands’ tailings ponds are seeping into groundwater."

Source: Canadian Press, 08/12/2014

"Amtrak Provides Crude Oil Train Details States Had Withheld"

"WASHINGTON -- Two loaded and two empty crude oil trains operate daily over Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor in Maryland and Delaware, according a document submitted by the passenger railroad in response to a Freedom of Information Act request."

Source: McClatchy, 08/12/2014

"Poison Algae That Hit Toledo Often Found in Wisconsin Lakes"

"The thick mats of algae on Lake Erie that poisoned the water supply of Toledo, Ohio, were fed by a type of pollution that's all too familiar in Wisconsin."

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 08/12/2014

"Nearly Two Years After Paulsboro Spill, Health Concerns Linger"

"After a train crash in Paulsboro, N.J., a cloud of toxic gas sent 28 people to the hospital. Mantua Township resident Ronald Morris was among them."

Source: WHYY NewsWorks, 08/12/2014

"GAO Report Finds Problems with EPA Groundwater Protection Program"

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not adequately monitoring more than 172,000 wells used to enhance oil and gas drilling and dispose of drilling wastewater, according to a July 28 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO)."

Source: Ctr for Effective Govt, 08/12/2014

Colgate Total Ingredient Linked to Hormones, Cancer Spotlights FDA

"The chemical triclosan has been linked to cancer-cell growth and disrupted development in animals. Regulators are reviewing whether it’s safe to put in soap, cutting boards and toys. Consumer companies are phasing it out. Minnesota voted in May to ban it in many products. At the same time, millions of Americans are putting it in their mouths every day, by way of a top-selling toothpaste that uses the antibacterial chemical to head off gum disease -- Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s Total."

Source: Bloomberg, 08/12/2014

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