Month: September 2008

EPA: let people die rather than cause an expense to the military

  By Health & Environment

EPA against limiting rocket fuel ingredient in water — CNN September 22, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there’s no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. EPA reached the conclusion in a draft regulatory document not yet made public but reviewed Monday by The Associated Press. Jeremy Symons, who represented the Environmental. . . CONTINUE

Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US

  By Global Warming

Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US by 3 degrees in 50 years By SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer, September 4, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday. These. . . CONTINUE

Shrinking Arctic ice alarms scientists

  By Global Warming

More evidence of global warming. By Charmaine Noronha | The Associated Press, September 4, 2008 TORONTO – A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer weather is changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf. . . CONTINUE