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"Fugitive dust" from Norfolk coal cars stirs health fears
2014-04-22 06:24:32| Railroads - Topix.net
Cathy Henry wondered about the black stuff. It coated the hands and feet of her 19-month-old twin girls when they played on the balcony of her West Ghent duplex.
GOP Fears Cost of Obama Plan to Cut Cattle Methane Emissions
2014-04-18 00:04:58| Livestock - Topix.net
The Obama administration has released a Climate Action Plan that includes a call to reduce methane gas emissions from dairy cows by 25 percent by 2020.
Pollution Fears Crush Home Prices Near Fracking Wells
2014-04-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Whether or not fracking causes groundwater pollution, people fear the risk enough that property values have dropped for homes with drinking-water wells near shale-gas pads, according to new research. Researchers from the Unviersity of Calgary and Duke University studied property sales from 1994 to 2012 in 36 Pennsylvania counties and seven counties in New York. They mapped sales against the locations of shale-gas wells, and they compared homes connected to public drinking-water systems to homes...
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Texas, Accused of Downplaying Cancer Fears, Grudgingly Re-examines Flower Mound Cluster
2014-04-09 16:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Observer: People who live in Flower Mound may or may not be at higher risk for developing cancer. The state already assured the public that there isn't a cancer cluster back in 2010, but after a UT-Austin researcher published a recent report challenging the state's methods, Texas has grudgingly agreed to look into it again. The state explained its plans to do an "updated analysis" in a terse, somewhat defensive press release that is careful to not give too much credence to any lefty UT-Austin professors:...
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IMF fears 'years of sub-par growth'
2014-04-02 22:56:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde calls for "brave action" to stop the global economy heading for "years of sub-par growth".
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