"House Panel Begins Work on Food Safety Overhaul"
"A House committee began work Wednesday on a comprehensive overhaul of food safety rules that includes more inspections and new fees on producers to pay for them."
Source: CQ, 06/04/2009
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"Small Islands Win UN Vote On Climate Change Security"
"Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic victory at the United Nations on Wednesday with the passage of a resolution recognizing climate change as a possible threat to security."
Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009
"Mexico Sees Support For U.N. Climate Finance Plan"
"A Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change is winning backing in talks on a new U.N. treaty, paradoxically because no one really likes it, a Mexican official said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009
"U.S. Envoy Sees Climate Partnership With China"
"The United States wants to forge a partnership with China, bringing the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases together to address global warming, Washington's top climate diplomat said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009
"Judge Orders Halt To Mining Protests"
"A Raleigh County [WV] judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block anti-mountaintop removal activists from further peaceful protests on certain Massey Energy mining sites."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 06/04/2009
"Black Tide"
"Just days before Christmas last year, an environmental disaster one hundred times the size of the Exxon Valdez (yes, you read that right) unfolded on a riverbank in eastern Tennessee. A wave of poisonous sludge buried a town…along with the myth of clean coal."
Source: GQ, 06/04/2009
EPA Studies Used-Tire Playground Risks
"The federal government is reconsidering whether sports fields and playgrounds made from ground-up tires could harm children's health after some Environmental Protection Agency scientists raised concerns,"
Source: AP, 06/04/2009
"Companies Not Disclosing Climate Risks: Studies"
"Most global industrial companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases are not adequately detailing their climate strategies in U.S. financial filings, two studies by environmental and investment groups showed on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 06/04/2009
"Recycled Radioactive Metal Contaminates Consumer Products"
"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."
Source: Scripps, 06/04/2009
New EPA Procedure Improves Transparency on Air Standards
The Obama EPA partially reverses a Bush-era procedure for setting health-based standards under the Clean Air Act.
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