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"Air Pollution Destroys Health of Texas Fracking Communities"

"KARNES CITY, Texas -- In the five years since the shale boom hit, the once-beautiful hills of south Texas have been transformed into a scarred, industrial landscape. The residents’ health is part of the collateral damage, according to the environmental watchdog group Earthworks. Their new study documents hazardous chemicals in the air and serious ailments reported by families living in close proximity to drilling operations."

Source: ENS, 09/23/2013

"In the Shadow of ‘Old Smokey,’ a Toxic Legacy"

"MIAMI -- When she was little, Elaine Taylor remembers rushing home whenever Old Smokey fired up. Clouds of ash from the towering trash incinerator would fill the air and settle on the ramshackle houses and the yards of the West Grove neighborhood."

Source: NY Times, 09/23/2013

"Scientists Critical Of EU Chemical Policy Have Industry Ties"

"Seventeen scientists who have criticized plans in Europe to regulate endocrine-disrupting chemicals have past or current ties to regulated industries."

Source: EHN, 09/23/2013

"Search Narrows for Missing in Colorado Flood Disaster"

"Disaster teams in flood-ravaged foothills of Colorado narrowed their search on Friday for 82 people still unaccounted for a week and a half after torrential rains began, and officials said some of the missing would most likely be added to the death toll."

Source: Reuters, 09/23/2013

Mexico Faces Huge Rebuilding Task After Dozens Die in 2 Freak Storms

"Mexico is looking to the huge task of rebuilding after rare storms struck from east and west at the same time, killing 101 people and destroying homes, schools and roads."

Source: AFP, 09/23/2013

"Scientists Set To Prepare Strongest Warning That Warming Man-Made"

"Scientists meet on Monday to prepare the strongest warning yet that climate change is man-made and will cause more heatwaves, droughts and floods this century unless governments take action."

Source: Reuters, 09/23/2013

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Vaunted Study Finds Low Fracking Emissions by Skipping Super-Emitters

"The good news: A sample of what are probably the best fracked wells in the country finds low emissions of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas. The bad news: The study likely missed the super-emitters, the wells that are responsible for the vast majority of methane leakage."

Source: Climate Progress, 09/20/2013

"Wildlife Managers Track Mysterious Deer Die-Off in Montana"

"Wildlife managers in Montana are trying to pinpoint whether a disease, environmental toxin or chemical agent has caused a die-off of more than 100 whitetail deer in wetlands along a river corridor in the western part of the state."

Source: Reuters, 09/20/2013

Chicago: "Railroad Agrees To Clean Up Freight Yard Air Pollution"

"In response to complaints from neighbors, Norfolk Southern agreed Thursday to take more aggressive steps to clean up lung-damaging diesel pollution from equipment at the railroad's Englewood freight yard."

Source: Chicago Tribune, 09/20/2013

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