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EPA OK's Cleanup Plan For PCB-Contaminated Wis. Parks And Schools
After sludge-derived fertilizer containing PCBs was spread at 25 Milwaukee school parks and 5 park district properties U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 today approved a cleanup of PCB contaminated land.
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Water, Air And Soil Pollution Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide, Cornell Study Finds
Cornell researcher concludes about 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported.
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Super-thin Membrane Sniffs Out Dangerous Molecules
Researchers at the University of Manchester have used the world's thinnest material to create sensors that can detect just a single molecule of a toxic gas.
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New Technology: See What Your Car Spews As You Drive
In the future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle's exhausts.
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Travelers Irked By Cloudy Smoking Rules at Hotels and Restaurants
A new survey reveals that nearly 90 percent of the traveling public believe hotels and restaurants need to be clearer about whether they are smoking or non-smoking
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U.S. Coast Guard Officer Indicted Over Hawaii Pollution Dumping Incident
A Coast Guard Officer was indicted today by a federal grand jury for obstructing the investigation into his authorization of discharge of 2000 gallons of bilge wastes into the Honolulu Harbor.
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Lead Exposure Lowers Childs End-of-Grade Scores
Even low-level lead exposure can decrease aptitude — the ability to learn -— on standardized IQ tests for school-aged children. Worse, research suggests that declines in aptitude occur at blood lead levels far below the current CDC blood lead action level of 10 µg/dL.
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Motorcycles. How Green Is Your Ride?
Motorcycles typically get about double the gas mileage of even the most fuel-efficient cars—but that doesn’t mean they are green. According to the European Commission, motorcycles — despite only accounting for about three percent of total traffic volume in Europe — will generate as much as 14 percent of total hydrocarbon emissions by 2010.
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Mothballs and Flouride - Safe?
Even though they are not as popular as they once were, mothballs are still used by many people to keep stored clothes, furniture and carpets free of hungry pests like moths. But the very ingredients that make mothballs so effective as household pesticides—namely naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene (PDB)—also make them dangerous to any person or animal who breathes the fumes or ingests them directly.
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EPA regulations on Mercury backed
Removing a key obstacle to Environmental Protection Agency plans to regulate mercury from power plants, a panel of scientists has concluded that the agency was justified in setting stringent levels of protection from the toxic substance.
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