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EPA Plan Targets Vast DDT Deposit Off Calif. Coast
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June 23, 2009 - MSNBC
| | Los Angeles -- A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday — nearly four decades after the poison was banned from use.
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Voyage to the Centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'
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May 25, 2009 - PhysOrg.com
| | Hong Kong -- A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex." The giant gloop -- which some scientists estimate is twice the size of Texas -- has been gradually building over the last 60 years as Asia and the United States tossed their unwanted goods into the ocean.
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186 Million in U.S. Live with Dangerous Air Pollution
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April 29, 2009 - MSNBC
| | Washington -- According to a new report from the American Lung Association, 6 in 10 U.S. residents live in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution. Los Angeles was ranked as the U.S. city with the worst ozone pollution, Bakersfield, California, was worst for year-round particle pollution and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was worst for short-term particle pollution.
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Tons of Released Drugs Taint US Water
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April 19, 2009 - Google News
| | U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.
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Prodded By Petition, EPA Reconsiders Ocean pH Limits
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April 15, 2009 - New York Times
| | U.S. EPA is weighing a revision of standards aimed at preventing the acidification of marine waters. The effort marks the first time EPA has invoked the Clean Water Act to address ocean acidification, and comes in response to a 2007 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity. The center noted that EPA has failed to update the pH standard since 1976 and has ignored research published since then.
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EPA Acts to Block Mountaintop Mining Project
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March 25, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal
| | WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration moved to block a mountaintop coal-mining project and said it will scrutinize more than a hundred mining permits to review concerns about waste dumped into rivers and streams.
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Pollution Dims Skies As Well As Befouling The Air
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March 12, 2009 - CBS News
| | The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers report in the journal Science. They reported that dimming is occurring everywhere except Europe, where declines in pollution have resulted in brighter skies.
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Ala. Waste Pond Ruptures; Spill Contained
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January 9, 2009 - CBS News
| | A waste pond at a coal-burning power plant in northeast Alabama ruptured on Friday. The spill, about 30 miles southwest of Chattanooga, Tenn., comes just after a dike burst at a plant near Kingston, Tenn. on Dec. 22, releasing more than 1 billion gallons of toxic-laden ash into a neighborhood. The spill has renewed a debate about whether states or federal regulators should oversee the materials, and whether stricter regulations are needed to govern them.
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Car Restrictions Begin in Beijing
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July 20, 2008 - BBC
| | Beijing's authorities have introduced drastic traffic rules in a bid to remove more than one million cars from the streets ahead of the Olympic Games. Officials hope about half of the city's estimated 3,300,000 cars will be forced from the road over the next two months.
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80 Percent of Vietnam Factories Breach Pollution Rules: Study
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July 17, 2008 - TerraDaily
| | Hanoi -- Eight out of ten factories and industrial parks in Vietnam breach environmental regulations according to a government study. A survey of more than 400 enterprises found many "lacked even the most basic awareness of environmental issues," said the deputy head of the Environmental Protection Department, Nguyen Hoa Binh.
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Gulf Dead Zone Likely to Set Record
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June 12, 2008 - U.S. News & World Report
| | A new report predicts that the Gulf of Mexico dead zone will cover more than 10,000 square miles this summer, a swath nearly 20 percent larger than the record-setting dead zone of 2002 and more than 50 percent larger than the annual average since 1990.
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Study Links Air Pollution, Blood Clots In Veins
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May 13, 2008 - Planet Ark
| | Chicago -- Air pollution heavy in small particles may cause blood clots in the legs. Researchers studied 870 people in Italy who had developed deep vein thrombosis between 1995 and 2005. When compared with 1,210 others living in the same region who did not have the problem, they found that for every increase in particulate matter of 10 micrograms per square meter the previous year, the risk of deep vein thrombosis increased by 70 percent.
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Air Pollution Eyed as Raw Material for Plastics
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April 8, 2008 - LiveScience.com
| | Researchers are developing methods to transform carbon dioxide into the raw materials used to make polycarbonates. This process could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and also provide a cheaper and less toxic alternative for producing transparent plastic products such as CDs and DVDs, eyeglasses and drinking bottles.
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US Corn Biofuels Will Expand Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone': Scientists
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March 10, 2008 - Google News
| | Vancouver, Canada -- Growing enough corn to meet US biofuel goals set for 2022 would increase nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers by 10 to 34 percent. The additional nitrate pollution will significantly expand the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone, which already covers 20,000 square kilometers.
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Breathing Dirty Air May Lower Kids' IQ
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February 15, 2008 - MSNBC
| | New York -- A study has found that kids who live in neighborhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air.
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China to Launch Pollution Survey in February: State Media
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January 4, 2008 - Google News
| | Beijing -- China will launch its first nationwide survey to identify pollution sources. The survey will assess the sources of industrial, agricultural, and residential pollution and the results will be revealed in the first half of 2009. China's booming growth has ravaged the environment, with about 70 percent of its waterways polluted and urban air quality among the worst in the world.
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U.S. Delays Approval of Farm Pesticide
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September 28, 2007 - The Denver Post
| | Washington -- The Environmental Protection Agency delayed approval of a new toxic fumigant after receiving a letter from 54 scientists, including six Nobel Prize winners, who contend that the chemical is too dangerous. The fumigant is injected into soil before planting and does not leave a residue on the produce itself, but critics worry that fumes can escape and harm farmworkers or nearby residents. Methyl iodide, also called iodomethane, is classified in California as a carcinogen.
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