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"Judge
Blasts EPA Ground Zero Appraisal." ... ""No reasonable
person would have thought that telling thousands of people that it was
safe to return to lower Manhattan, while knowing that such return could
pose long-term health risks and other dire consequences, was conduct sanctioned
by our laws," U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts wrote, calling Whitman's
actions "conscience- shocking."" -AP
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HEALTH News:
20080509
-
Consumers
-
 Food
-  Safety
- Humans
- Health
-  Law
- Politics
-  Animals
-  Agriculture
-  Business
-  Kan
-  US
-  Japan
- "Government
asks court to block wider testing for mad cow." ...
"The [Republican President] Bush administration on Friday urged a federal
appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad
cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has
that authority." ... "The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling
that allowed Arkansas City, Kan.[Kansas]-based Creekstone Farms Premium
Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas
customers in Japan and elsewhere." ... "Less than 1 percent of slaughtered
cows are currently tested for the disease under Agriculture Department
guidelines. The agency argues that more widespread testing does not guarantee
food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers."
... "Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, can be fatal
to humans who eat tainted beef. Three cases of mad cow disease have been
discovered in the U.S. [United States] since 2003." -By
Sam Hananel -AP
via -SFGate.com
20080508
-
 Oil
- Corporations
- Air
- Environment
-  Ground
-  Water
- Safety
- Health
- Science
- Politics
- "Chevron,
11 Oil Companies to Pay $423 Million in MTBE Lawsuits."
... "Water suppliers in 17 states will collect $423 million from Chevron
Corp. [Corporation], BP Plc [Public limited company] and 10 other oil companies
as part of a settlement of contamination claims involving the gasoline
additive MTBE." ... "The suits claim the oil companies contaminated wells
and underground aquifers across the country by adding methyl tertiary butyl
ether, or MTBE, to gasoline as a way to reduce air pollution. They claim
the oil companies hid information showing MTBE would cause ``massive''
contamination." ... "The settlement was filed yesterday with U.S. District
Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York, who is presiding over the 59 settled
lawsuits brought by 153 municipalities. The six oil companies and refineries
that didn't settle include Exxon Mobil Corp. [Corporation], the world's
biggest publicly traded oil company, according to Robert Gordon, a lawyer
for the plaintiffs." ... "The municipalities ``will use the money to continue
to treat water so that it is safe and pure,'' Gordon said in a phone interview."
... "MTBE reduces air pollution by making gasoline burn more completely
in a car's engine. MTBE discharged into the air contaminates groundwater
through rainfall. The additive has been banned in many states." ... "Estimates
of the cost to treat contaminated water in the U.S. have reached $30 billion."
... "Scheindlin denied a request by the oil companies to dismiss the suits
in 2005." ... "``Innocent water providers -- and ultimately innocent water
users -- should not be denied relief from the contamination of their water
supply if defendants breached a duty to avoid an unreasonable risk of harm
from their products,'' Scheindlin said at the time." ... "The case is In
Re: MTBE, 00-cv-1898, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
(Manhattan). " -By David Glovin
-Bloomberg
20080507
-
Water
-
 Infrastructure
- Human
- Health
- Safety
-  Enforcement
- Environment
- Underground
- Money
-  History
-  Weather
- Animals
-  Plants
- "Aging
systems releasing sewage into rivers, streams." ...
"America's aging sewer systems continue to dump human waste into rivers
and streams, despite years of fines and penalties targeting publicly owned
agencies responsible for sewage overflows, a Gannett News Service analysis
shows." ... "The analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data
found that since 2003, hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been
fined for violations, including spills that make people sick, threaten
local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants." ... "DATABASE:
Sewer
treatment plant reports by state[.]" ... "Local governments across
the USA plan to spend billions modernizing failing wastewater systems —
some of which are more than 100 years old — over the next 10 to 20 years,
EPA, state and local sewer authority officials said." ... "Those improvement
efforts face a huge challenge mitigating problems in what the EPA estimates
to be 1.2 million miles of sewers snaking underground across the USA."
... "Waste gurgles from manholes and gushes down streams and rivers somewhere
in the USA almost every day, the EPA estimates." ... "Gannett News Service
analyzed enforcement and compliance records compiled by the EPA and state
regulators from January 2003 to February 2008." ... "The analysis found
that at least one-third of the nation's large, publicly owned sewage treatment
systems were the subject of formal enforcement actions by the EPA or state
regulators for sewage spills or other violations. Those enforcement actions
included fines as well as orders to fix problems or expand treatment capacity.
Fines totaling $35 million were assessed against 494 of the nation's 4,200
municipal facilities that treat at least 1 million gallons of sewage daily,
the analysis shows." ... "An EPA 2004 report to Congress estimated that
850 billion gallons of storm water mixed with raw sewage pour into U.S.
waters every year from older, combined sewer systems that were designed
to overflow in wet weather. These combined systems, built by cities in
the 19th and early 20th centuries, are now considered antiquated and a
threat to public health and the environment, according to the EPA and environmental
groups." ... "The EPA's 2002 Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure
Gap Analysis reported the nation's municipal sewer authorities' capital
needs to meet clean water requirements from 2000 to 2019 ranged from $331
billion to $450 billion. Based on that data, the National Association of
Clean Water Agencies now puts that range at $350 billion to $500 billion
for the next 20 years, association spokeswoman Susan Bruninga said." -By
Larry Wheeler and Grant Smith with contributions by Robert Benincasa and
Dan Klepal -USATODAY
-
Secret
- Government
-
 Intelligence
- Terrorism
- Politics
- Illegal
-  Surveillance
- Investigation
-  Internet
- Archive
-  Library
-  Electronic
- Civil
Liberties - Brewster_Kahle
- Censorship
- San
Francisco -  California
-  Student
- Health
- Consumer
-  Telephone
- Electronic
- Data
- National
Security Letter - "FBI
Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses."
... "The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the
web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act
order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the
order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning." ...
"On November 26, 2007, the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] served
a controversial National
Security Letter (.pdf) on the Internet
Archive's founder Brewster Kahle, asking for records about one of the
library's registered users, asking for the user's name, address and activity
on the site." ... "The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive's
lawyers, fought the NSL [National Security Letter], challenging its constitutionality
in a December 14 complaint
(.pdf) to a federal court in San Francisco [California]. The FBI agreed
on April 21 to withdraw the letter and unseal the court case, making some
of the documents available to the public." ... "The Patriot Act greatly
expanded the reach of NSLs, which are subpoenas for documents such as billing
records and telephone records that the FBI can issue in terrorism investigations
without a judge's approval. Nearly all NSLs come with gag orders forbidding
the recipient from ever speaking of the subpoena, except to a lawyer."
... "Brewster Kahle called the gag order "horrendous," saying he couldn't
talk about the case with his board members, wife or staff, but said that
his stand was part of a time-honored tradition of librarians protecting
the rights of their patrons." ... ""This is an unqualified success that
will help other recipients understand that you can push back on these,"
Kahle said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning." ...
"Though FBI guidelines on using NSLs warned of overusing them, two Congressionally
ordered audits revealed that the FBI had issued hundreds of illegal requests
for student health records, telephone records and credit reports. The reports
also found that the FBI had issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs since
2001, but failed to track their use. In a letter to Congress last week,
the FBI admitted it can only estimate how many NSLs it has issued." -By
Ryan Singel -Wired
-
US
-
 Iraq
-  Afghanistan
-  Military
- People
- Politics
- "U.S.
deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat." ... "More
than 43,000 U.S. [United States] troops listed as medically unfit for combat
in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since
2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show." ... "This reliance on troops
found medically "non-deployable" is another sign of stress placed on a
military that has sent 1.6 million servicemembers to the war zones, soldier
advocacy groups say." ... ""It is a consequence of the consistent churning
of our troops," said Bobby Muller, president of Veterans For America. "They
are repeatedly exposed to high-intensity combat with insufficient time
at home to rest and heal before redeploying."" ... "The numbers of non-deployable
soldiers are based on health assessment forms filled out by medical personnel
at each military installation before a servicemember's deployment." -By
Gregg Zoroya -USATODAY
20080505
-
 Mental
- Health
- PTSD
- Science
-  Maryland
- US
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Veterans
- Government
- Financial
- Politics
- "Post-War
Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says (Update1)."
... "The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care,
the U.S. [United States] government's top psychiatric researcher said."
... "Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven't
provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda,
Maryland. He briefed reporters today at the American Psychiatric Association's
annual meeting in Washington." ... "Insel echoed a Rand Corporation study
published last month that found about 20 percent of returning U.S. soldiers
have post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, and only half of them
receive treatment. About 1.6 million U.S. troops have fought in the two
wars since October 2001, the report said. About 4,560 soldiers had died
in the conflicts as of today, the Defense Department reported on its Web
site." ... "Based on those figures and established suicide rates for similar
patients who commonly develop substance abuse and other complications of
post-traumatic stress disorder, ``it's quite possible that the suicides
and psychiatric mortality of this war could trump the combat deaths,''
Insel said. " -By Avram Goldstein
-Bloomberg
20080503
-
People
- Health
- Environment
- Trees
-
 Global
- Earth
- Science
- Politics
-  Book
-  North
Carolina - "Caring
for planet increasingly tied to faith groups." ...
"Abraham sits at the oaks. Deborah holds court under a palm tree. Moses
speaks to a bush." ... ""I would say connecting this to the Bible is important
for some people," said Dr. Matthew Sleeth, a former hospital chief of staff
who couldn't shake the faces of patients with seemingly increasing environment-related
illnesses. So he quit his job, gave away half his belongings and began
spreading the word on the urgency of people paying more attention to the
environment." ... "Pointing out the symbolism of trees in Scripture has
helped Sleeth link faith with personal responsibility. His book, "Serve
God and Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action," is in its seventh
printing. Sleeth also has a prominent role in the publication of an upcoming
"green Bible."" ... ""The change has come when people who are strong in
their faith, who might be against it," Sleeth says of the deterioration
of the Earth, "then go look at the Bible with this in mind and they see
a different story."" ... "The statewide faith and environment conference
that Sleeth will co-headline at Catawba College in Salisbury [North Carolina]
this month grew out of a meeting among Greensboro [North Carolina] houses
of worship at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Participants tried to broaden
the conversation between the scientific and faith-based communities." ...
""When people realize that there is this direct tie between our own faith
and being good stewards of this Earth," said John Wear, founding director
of Catawba's Center for the Environment, "then it gives them a purpose
that didn't exist before."" -By Nancy McLaughlin
-News-Record.com
CenterForTheEnvironment.org
20080502
-
 Stephen
Johnson - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
-  Fetal
- Human
- Health
- Science
- Environmental
- Safety
- Enforcement
- Emergency
- Wildlife
- Soil
- Water
- Law
- Manufacturing
- History
-  Michigan
-  Illinois
- "EPA's
top Midwest regulator forced out: Mary Gade, based
in Chicago [Illinois], says [Republican President] Bush administration
made her quit over Dow Chemical case." ... "The Bush administration forced
its top environmental regulator in the Midwest to quit Thursday after months
of internal bickering about dioxin contamination downstream from Dow Chemical's
world headquarters in Michigan." ... "In an interview with the [Chicago]
Tribune, Mary Gade said two top officials at the U.S. [United States] Environmental
Protection Agency headquarters in Washington stripped her of her powers
as regional administrator and told her to quit or be fired by June 1."
... "Gade said she had told the agency she would resign her position, based
in Chicago [Illinois]." ... "For the past year, Gade has been locked in
a
heated dispute with Dow about long-delayed plans to clean up dioxin-saturated
soil and sediment that extends 50 miles beyond its Midland, Mich. [Michigan],
plant into Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron." ... "Gade, a former corporate attorney
appointed by Bush in September 2006, invoked emergency powers last year
to force Dow to clean up four hot spots of dioxin, including the largest
amount of the cancer-causing chemical ever recorded in the United States."
... "In January, Dow urged officials at the EPA's [Environmental Protection
Agency's] headquarters to intervene after Gade broke off negotiations intended
to renew the terms for a more comprehensive cleanup. Neither side would
reveal details, citing confidentiality agreements, but Gade said Dow resisted
taking steps needed to protect human health and wildlife." ... "Though
regional EPA administrators typically have wide latitude to enforce environmental
laws, Gade drew fire from officials in Washington last month after she
sent contractors to test soil in a Saginaw [Michigan] neighborhood where
Dow had found high dioxin levels." ... "She said top lieutenants to Stephen
Johnson, the national EPA administrator, repeatedly questioned her aggressive
action against Dow, which long ago acknowledged it is responsible for the
dioxin contamination but has resisted federal and state involvement in
cleanup plans." ... "Dow dumped dioxin-contaminated waste into the waterways
for most of the last century. The chemical, which is so toxic that it is
measured in trillionths of a gram, was a manufacturing byproduct of the
Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange and other chlorinated herbicides." ...
"Company documents show Dow knew by the mid-1960s that it could make people
sick or even kill them." ... "Citing years of independent studies, the
EPA says dioxin can cause cancer, disrupt the immune system and alter fetal
development." ... ""We have a responsibility to make sure people are living
in a healthy and safe environment," Gade said. "This problem has been out
there for more than 30 years, and it's unconscionable that action hasn't
been taken."" (1, 2)
-By Michael Hawthorne
-ChicagoTribune
20080430
-
Agriculture
- Factory
- Companies
- Poor
- People
- Nutrition
- Health
- US
-
- World
- Biofuel
- Air
- Soil
- Water
- Environment
- Animals
- Plants
- Science
- "Shortages
Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer." ... "Some
kinds of fertilizer have nearly tripled in price in the last year, keeping
farmers from buying all they need. That is one of many factors contributing
to a rise in food prices that, according to the United Nations’ World Food
Program, threatens to push tens of millions of poor people into malnutrition."
... "Rising demand for food and biofuels prompted farmers everywhere to
plant more crops." ... "Fertilizer companies are confident the shortage
will be solved eventually, noting that they plan to build scores of new
factories. But that will probably create fresh problems in the long run
as the world grows more dependent on fossil fuels to produce chemical fertilizers."
... "The demand for fertilizer has been driven by a confluence of events,
including population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and the appetite
for corn and palm oil to make biofuel. But experts say the biggest factor
has been the growing demand for food, especially meat, in the developing
world." ... "Fertilizer is plant food, a combination of nutrients added
to soil to help plants grow. The three most important are nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium. The latter two have long been available. But nitrogen in
a form that plants can absorb is scarce, and the lack of it led to low
crop yields for centuries." ... "That limitation ended in the early 20th
century with the invention of a procedure, now primarily fueled by natural
gas, that draws chemically inert nitrogen from the air and converts it
into a usable form." ... "Environmental groups fear increased use, particularly
of nitrogen fertilizer made using fossil fuels. Because plants do not absorb
all the nitrogen, much of it leaches into streams and groundwater. That
runoff has long been recognized as a major pollution problem, and it is
growing." ... "A barometer of the pollution is the rising number of dead
zones where rivers meet the sea. In the Gulf of Mexico, for instance, nitrogen
runoff from fields in the Corn Belt washes downstream and feeds plant life
in the gulf. The algae blooms suck oxygen from the water, killing other
marine life." (1, 2)
-By Keith
Bradsher and Andrew
Martin -NYTimes
20080427
-
 Elizabeth
Edwards -  Edwards
-  Biden
-  Barack
Obama -  Media
-  Television
- Corporations
- Sports
- Politics
- 2008
Election -  Pennsylvania
- Freedom
- Health
- "Bowling
1, Health Care 0." ... "For the last month, news
media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its [2008 Election] Democratic
primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn?" ... "Well, the
rancor of the campaign was covered. The amount of money spent was covered.
But in Pennsylvania, as in the rest of the country this political season,
the information about the candidates’ priorities, policies and principles
— information that voters will need to choose the next president — too
often did not make the cut. After having spent more than a year on the
campaign trail with my husband, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] John Edwards, I’m not surprised." ... "Why? Here’s my guess:
The vigorous press that was deemed an essential part of democracy at our
country’s inception is now consigned to smaller venues, to the Internet
and, in the mainstream media, to occasional articles. I am not suggesting
that every journalist for a mainstream media outlet is neglecting his or
her duties to the public. And I know that serious newspapers and magazines
run analytical articles, and public television broadcasts longer, more
probing segments." ... "But I am saying that every analysis that is shortened,
every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what
is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism,
in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the
whole picture." ... "Did you, for example, ever know a single fact about
[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Joe Biden’s health care
plan? Anything at all? But let me guess, you know [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama’s bowling score. We are choosing a
president, the next leader of the free world. We are not buying soap, and
we are not choosing a court clerk with primarily administrative duties."
... "What’s more, the news media cut candidates like Joe Biden out of the
process even before they got started." ... "News is different from other
programming on television or other content in print. It is essential to
an informed electorate. And an informed electorate is essential to freedom
itself. But as long as corporations to which news gathering is not the
primary source of income or expertise get to decide what information about
the candidates “sells,” we are not functioning as well as we could if we
had the engaged, skeptical press we deserve." ... "If voters want a vibrant,
vigorous press, apparently we will have to demand it." (1, 2)
-By Elizabeth Edwards
-NYTimes
20080423
-
Noteworthy
- Government
- EPA
- Opinion
- Science
- Politics
- Food
-
 Drug
- Oceanic
- Atmospheric
- Climate
- Health
- California
- Investigation
- "Hundreds
of EPA Scientists Report Political Interference Over Last Five Years:
UCS [Union of Concerned Scientists] calls for strengthened protections
for federal scientists." ... "An investigation of the Environmental Protection
Agency released today found that 889 of nearly 1,600 staff scientists reported
that they experienced political interference in their work over the last
five years. The study, by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), follows
previous UCS investigations of the Food and Drug Administration, Fish and
Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and
climate scientists at seven federal agencies, which also found significant
administration manipulation of federal science." ... ""Our investigation
found an agency in crisis," said Francesca Grifo, director of UCS's Scientific
Integrity Program. "Nearly 900 EPA scientists reported political interference
in their scientific work. That's 900 too many. Distorting science to accommodate
a narrow political agenda threatens our environment, our health, and our
democracy itself."" ... "The UCS report comes amidst a flurry of controversial
activity swirling around the EPA. Congress is currently investigating administration
interference in a new chemical toxicity review process as well as California's
request to regulate tailpipe emissions. And in early May, the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee is expected to hold a hearing on political
interference in the new EPA ground-level ozone pollution standard." ...
"UCS's investigation revealed political interference is most pronounced
in offices where scientists write regulations and at the National Center
for Environmental Assessment, where scientists conduct risk assessments
that could lead to strengthened regulations." ... ""The investigation shows
researchers are generally continuing to do their work," said Dr. Grifo.
"But their scientific findings are tossed aside when it comes time to write
regulations."" ... "Nearly 100 scientists identified the [Republican President
Bush's] White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the primary
culprit." -UCSUSA.org
-
Government
- Environmental
- Science
- Politics
- Human
- Health
- Law
- Air
- Ground
- Water
-
 Homes
-  Workplace
- Industry
- US
- Global
- Climate
- Free
Speech - Censorship
- "Interference
at the EPA: Science and Politics at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency." ... "The U.S. [United States] Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has the simple yet profound charge "to protect human health
and the environment." EPA scientists apply their expertise to protect
the public from air and water pollution, clean up hazardous waste, and
study emerging threats such as global warming. Because each year brings
new and potentially toxic chemicals into our homes and workplaces, because
air pollution still threatens our public health, and because environmental
challenges are becoming more complex and global, a strong and capable EPA
is more important than ever." ... "Yet challenges from industry lobbyists
and some political leaders to the agency's decisions have too often led
to the suppression and distortion of the scientific findings underlying
those decisions—to the detriment of both science and the health of our
nation. While every regulatory agency must balance scientific findings
with other considerations, policy makers need access to the highest-quality
scientific information to make fully informed decisions." ... "Concern
over this problem led the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to investigate
political interference in science at the EPA. The investigation combines
dozens of interviews with current and former EPA staff, analysis of government
documents, more than 1,600 responses to a survey sent to current EPA scientists,
and written comments from EPA scientists." ... "The results of these investigations
show an agency under siege from political pressures. On numerous issues—ranging
from mercury pollution to groundwater contamination to climate change—political
appointees have edited scientific documents, manipulated scientific assessments,
and generally sought to undermine the science behind dozens of EPA regulations."
... "These findings highlight the need for strong reforms to protect EPA
scientists, make agency decision making more transparent, and reduce politicization
of the regulatory process. Congress, the next president, and the next EPA
Administrator must restore independence and scientific integrity to the
EPA by:"
-
"
* Protecting EPA Scientists: Scientists should be free to report the distortion,
manipulation, and suppression of their work without fear of retribution.
Congress should pass a whistleblower law that includes protection for scientists.
The EPA should adopt a communications policy that lets scientists speak
freely to the press about their findings."
-
"
* Making the EPA More Transparent: Too many decisions are made behind closed
doors with little accountability. The EPA’s scientific findings should
be freely available to the public. The EPA should open up its decision-making
process to congressional and public scrutiny to help reveal misuses of
science[.]"
-
"
* Reforming the Regulatory Process: The White House should not change scientific
findings in order to weaken, delay, or prevent new public protections."
-
"
* Ensuring Robust Scientific Input to EPA's Decision Making: The EPA should
review and strengthen how it uses the scientific expertise of its staff
and external advisory committees to create policies—especially when scientific
input is critical or required by law."
-
"
* Depoliticizing Funding, Monitoring, and Enforcement: Problems with funding,
monitoring and enforcement also need to be addressed by Congress and the
next President to ensure that the EPA is the robust environmental agency
that our country needs."
-UCSUSA.org/scientific_integrity/interference
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