Topic on the Beat: Water & Oceans
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"California Oil Refiners Turn to Processing Dirtier, Cheaper Crude Oil"
"California's long-running campaign to reduce air pollution has indirectly helped create a new problem: its oil refineries produce more greenhouse gas emissions than refineries anywhere else in the country."
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/29/2012
"State Setting Health Standards for Emerging Contaminants"
"ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Health is taking a closer look at a variety of chemicals that make their way into the water supply. Federal and state regulators have already placed limits on many contaminants found in drinking water, among them lead and mercury. But health officials are turning their attention to other chemicals that are not widely known, including those in fragrances, prescription drugs and bug spray."
Source: Minnesota Public Radio, 03/29/2012
"Hundreds of Donkeys Abandoned in Lingering Drought"
"With pastures withered from a lingering drought, farmers in Texas and northwest Louisiana have abandoned donkeys by the hundreds, turning them into wandering refugees that have severely tested animal rescue groups."
Source: AP, 03/29/2012
"No Vacancy: Unleashing the Potential of Empty Urban Land"
"Tia Jackson’s family has lived on the same block of Halsey Street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood for five generations. Kristen Rapp is a newcomer. Jackson is black. Rapp is white. In a part of town where the gentrification process has been grinding along painfully for years, the two might never have met if not for a sign on a fence on a vacant lot, left there by the members of a group called 596 Acres."
Source: Grist, 03/29/2012
"Conservatives' Trust in Science Has Declined Sharply"
"As the Republican presidential race has shown, the conservatives who dominate the primaries are deeply skeptical of science — making Newt Gingrich, for one, regret he ever settled onto a couch with Nancy Pelosi to chat about global warming."
Source: LA Times, 03/29/2012
"Churches Step Up Environmental Activism"
"With a Bible in one hand and a protest sign in the other, many religious activists are now moving in lockstep with the environmental movement in the fight against oil and gas drilling."
Source: Washington Times, 03/29/2012
Scientists Map Red Tide Algae To Prevent Shellfish Poisoning
"Public health officials have their hands full keeping your clam chowder and raw oysters safe. That's due, in part, to red tides."
Source: NPR, 03/29/2012
