"Local Agencies Can't Limit Train Emissions, Court Rules"
"U.S. 9th Circuit panel says Southern California air quality board can't impose restrictions that could interfere with interstate commerce."
Source: LA Times, 09/16/2010
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Here are a few tips for examining company "eco-friendly" marketing claims, and exploring how cell phones and their use impact the environment, all of which can serve as a hook for compelling consumer news stories in any media.
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Study: Winter Road Safety Means More Environmental Toxicity
Salt and other substances used to make roads and other paved surfaces safer contaminate water ways with deadly toxicity levels that can even last till summer in some areas, according to a USGS study.
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Fracking Associated with Well Water Toxics; Causation Not Yet Proven
EPA warns Pavillion, WY residents not to drink or cook with their well water, and that the presence of methane (the main ingredient in natural gas) is so high that they should ventilate any room in which a shower is operating, and to not ignite anything in a closed room in which water is running.
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Dead Zones Degrade All U.S Coastal Regions
There were just 12 of these hypoxic areas in the 1960s. Now there are more than 300, or nearly half of the 647 waterways investigated by a consortium of federal agencies that released its report on Sept. 3, 2010.
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"Documents Show Homeland Security Tracks Anti-Drill Groups in Pa."
"According to recently leaked documents, the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings — including a public screening of the film 'Gasland,' a documentary about the environmental hazards of natural gas drilling."
Source: Harrisburg Patriot-News, 09/15/2010
"A New Name for High-Fructose Corn Syrup"
"The Corn Refiners Association, which represents firms that make the syrup, has been trying to improve the image of the much maligned sweetener with ad campaigns promoting it as a natural ingredient made from corn. Now, the group has petitioned the United States Food and Drug Administration to start calling the ingredient 'corn sugar.'"
Source: NYTimes, 09/15/2010
"Another EPA Threat Averted (For Now)"
GOP efforts to stop EPA regulation of greenhouse gases by tacking a rider onto an appropriations bill in committee may have been thwarted for now.
Source: Mother Jones, 09/15/2010
"Of Mussels, Repo Men and the Law"
The invasive and harmful quagga mussel is showing up in Western states, and the Western states are fighting back.
Source: Green (NYT), 09/15/2010
"U.S. Meat Farmers Brace for Limits on Antibiotics"
"Dispensing antibiotics to healthy animals is routine on the large, concentrated farms that now dominate American agriculture. ... Now, after decades of debate, the Food and Drug Administration appears poised to issue its strongest guidelines on animal antibiotics yet."
Source: NYTimes, 09/15/2010
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