Month: July 2008

Closing Coal Plants Benefits Children’s Brain Development

  By Health & Environment

July 25 2008 A new study by researchers at Columbia University’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) concludes that shutting down coal-fired power plants has a direct, positive impact on infant brain development. The study, published in the July 14th edition of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, tracked the development of two groups of children in China – one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in. . . CONTINUE

Soaring costs leave military’s fuel-saving campaign reeling

  By OIL

By Julian E. Barnes | Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2008 WASHINGTON – Across the oil-thirsty U.S. military, commanders are scrambling for ways to offset the ever-rising cost of fuel. But their best efforts so far have fallen short. The military services have found ways to save millions of dollars through conservation, but the price of oil has outpaced the cost-cutting efforts. The Navy, for example, estimates it is saving. . . CONTINUE

The EPA: criminal “corporate protection” at Ground Zero; 9/11

  By Health & Environment

The health of thousands of Americans compromised to protect the EPA administrator’s corporate “friends”; (confirmed by EPA’s inspector general)* “far more contaminated than many Superfund sites, where respirators and moon suits are mandatory” Worse, this proves to be Bush’s universal mission – carried out by all his appointees, all his administration and starting in late June 2008, he is dragging McCain into it! from Crimes Against Nature, a book by. . . CONTINUE

White House caught suppressing data on global warming.

  By General Corruption, Global Warming

10 July 2008 In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), former White House official Jason Burnett revealed that Vice President Cheney’s office deleted portions of the testimony of Center for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding, who testified last year about the consequences of climate change on public health. In a press conference yesterday, Boxer charged that White House spokesperson Dana Perino had ‘lied’ about the rationale behind the editing. . . CONTINUE