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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Health Effects of Indoor Air Contaminants
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Coal's Assault on Human Health:
February 15, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group call: Climate Change Vulnerability and Cumulative Impacts:
February 16, 2012
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 3 Feb Wishing upon an atom in a tiny French village. The protesters who periodically descend upon the French rural village of Fessenheim say the aging nuclear power station here, in the woods beyond the cornfields, is a calamity in waiting. 3 Feb Yakuza labor structure formed base of nuclear industry. A labor practice involving "disguised subcontracts" is illegal under Japan's Employment Security Law. But the practice has remained widespread for years at nuclear plants around the nation, according to sources. 3 Feb Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima. Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes ? unlike the Chernobyl site, which remains inside a wide no-go zone a quarter-century after the accident there. 3 Feb Bird numbers plummet around stricken Fukushima plant. Researchers working around Japan's disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbinger of the impact of radioactive fallout on local life. 3 Feb ?Unusual? wear on new tubes carrying radioactive water at California nuclear plant raises concern. The integrity of some equipment installed in 2009 at Southern California?s San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant is drawing concern after unusual wear was found on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water. 3 Feb Rebuilding wetlands by managing the muddy Mississippi. The Mississippi delta is in trouble. A complex network of humanmade river channels, levees, and dams, intended to control the river and save coastal communities from flooding, has cut sediment supply to the delta in half. Rising sea levels due to climate change and lowering land surface from groundwater pumping and oil and gas extraction are also taking their toll. 3 Feb Latest effect of Gulf spill: Waves of cash. At least $100 million, and possibly much more, will be funneled to Texas as part of the cleanup financing from BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Although the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion occurred hundreds of miles from Texas shores, Texas has been affected indirectly. 3 Feb Westlands Water District suing feds for $1b. Westlands Water District is suing the federal government for $1 billion, claiming the Interior Department failed to deliver a court-ordered cleanup of salty irrigation drainage. Bad water trapped below the ground surface still slowly poisons west Valley farmland. 3 Feb Drought may dry up Texas rice crop. A day of reckoning looms for the state?s rice growers, who pump millions into Southeast Texas each year and account for 5 percent of America?s rice. Come March 1, if there is not enough water in reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River, managers will take the unprecedented step of withholding water from agriculture. 3 Feb New generation of nuclear reactors could consume radioactive waste as fuel. A generation of "fast" nuclear reactors could consume Britain's radioactive waste stockpile as fuel, providing enough low-carbon electricity to power the country for more than 500 years, according to figures confirmed by the chief scientific adviser to the Department of Energy and Climate Change. 3 Feb Is your orange juice safe? Low levels of a banned pesticide found in orange juice imported from Brazil is safe for sale in the domestic supply, says the Food and Drug Administration after conducting new tests. The juice is tainted with the fungicide carbendazim, and will soon reach American grocery stores. 3 Feb Man arrested in Chile for stealing a glacier. A truck carrying nearly 12,000 pounds of illegally removed glacial ice was stopped in the Chilean town of Cochrane this week. 3 Feb 'Bayou Billionaires' brings gas boom to reality TV. The fracking-led oil and natural gas boom that's received widespread attention in the mainstream press has moved to a new medium: reality TV. 3 Feb Are frac sand miners failing to check for rare butterfly? In the sand barrens of Wisconsin lives an endangered butterfly whose range overlaps almost perfectly with an area booming from natural gas drilling. Dozens of frac sand companies have descended on the area, but only one has applied for a permit to legally destroy the butterfly's habitat. 3 Feb Evidence for jellyfish invasion is lacking. Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world?s oceans. In a new study, however, researchers argue that there simply isn?t enough long-term data to conclude that global jellyfish numbers are on the rise. 3 Feb The low-level nuclear threat. Europe is making a good start on learning about the health risks of low-dose radiation with a programme to share cold-war data and set research priorities. But the effort needs to be global. 3 Feb Wade Dump tragedy still taking its toll. The Wade Dump fire is a reminder of the importance of the dangers of toxic waste and the importance of environmental laws that protect us from them. Some of those laws sprung directly from this tragedy thirty-four years ago. 3 Feb Public should be warned of the risks of eating raw liver. The meat industry?s argument that we need to preserve the culinary culture of eating raw meat is not convincing as long as there are unscrupulous business practices. 3 Feb Once, men abused slaves. Now we abuse fossil fuels. Pointing out the similarities (and differences) between slavery and the use of fossil fuels can help us engage with climate change in a new way. |