Nations Reach Ship-Breaking Treaty
After more than five years of negotiations, delegates from 64 countries reached broad consensus in Hong Kong Thursday on a new treaty regulating the recycling of ships.
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009
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Latest Developments in the Identification and Management of Indoor Air Quality Issues
Topics include health impacts; the role of green buildings; building durability problems; relationships between indoor and outdoor air quality; and new technologies for cleaning up indoor air.
"Confused by SPF? Take a Number"
"SPF creep has hit the triple digits with Neutrogena’s SPF 100+ sunblock, leading some dermatologists to complain that this is merely a numbers game that confuses consumers."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009
"First Ocean Acidification Lawsuit Filed Against EPA"
"The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Lisa Jackson over the agency's failure to recognize the impacts of ocean acidification on waters off the state of Washington."
Source: ENS, 05/15/2009
9 More Bird Species Red-Listed
"Nine more bird species have been added this year to the list of Critically Endangered birds that face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild...."
Source: ENS, 05/15/2009
21st Century Dust Bowl in West?
"Dust storms accelerated by a warming climate have covered the Rocky Mountains with dirt whose heat-trapping properties have caused snowpacks to melt weeks earlier than normal, worrying officials in Colorado about drastic water shortages by late summer."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009
Chevron Faces Ire in Equador
Chevron is preparing for an unfavorable ruling in what looks like the world's largest environmental lawsuit. Dwellers in the former oilfields of Equador bitterly resent the pollution -- and the deaths they believe resulted.
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009
Decision on Largest Lead-Tainted Neighborhood
The nation's largest residential lead pollution site reached a key milestone today with the signing of an EPA decision on how to clean up thousands of residential yards in eastern Omaha contaminated over decades by emissions from the former ASARCO lead refinery.
Source: ENS, 05/15/2009
"Study Halves Prediction of Rising Seas"
"A new analysis halves longstanding projections of how much sea levels could rise if Antarctica's massive western ice sheets fully disintegrated as a result of global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009
"New York City Official Is Obama Pick for C.D.C."
"President Obama will announce on Friday that he has chosen Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the New York City health commissioner, as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2009
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