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Risky Business: EPA Builds List of Potentially Dangerous Chemicals

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- As the rates of learning disabilities, autism and related conditions rise, the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a roster of the pollutants likely to contribute to these or other neurological disorders. In an ongoing, three-year effort, an EPA team has determined which developmental neurotoxicants -- chemicals that damage a fetal and infant brain -- may pose the biggest risk to the American public. ...
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Air Monitoring for Public Safety: Lessons Learned from the BP Gulf Oil Spill

It can happen anywhere. A train derails releasing a tank car full of toxic chemicals; a refinery accident blankets a residential community in a cloud of gas; or an offshore oil rig explodes, spewing crude oil into the ocean, causing coastal residents to complain of odors and health symptoms for weeks... When environmental disasters like these take place, local communities and health care providers need information fast – they need to know what’s in the air, how high the levels are, and what to do to protect people’s health. That’s where the EPA and other agencies come in. Government emergency response programs are essential for protecting health. Unfortunately, there are gaps in this important safety system....
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Toxic Air Hovers Over 600 U.S. Neighborhoods

Higher cancer risk due to toxic air exposure threatens about two million Americans, according to the latest National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) report released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....
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Environmental Impact of Greek Forest Fires

The dramatic pictures of forest fires that blazed across the Peloponnese and other regions of Greece could lead one to think of significant ecological effects. The area around the Mediterranean has had a long history of forest fires and burning bushes....
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Tennessee Coal Ash Spill: What’s To Come?

The earthen walls surrounding the coal-powered Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee failed last Dec. 22, spilling over a billion gallons of coal ash sludge over a 3,000-acre area, in what may be the largest environmental disaster in United States history....
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Wildfires Could Worsen With Climate Change

The wildfires that ravaged 65 square miles in Southern California last weekend spread with ferocious speeds that stunned most residents. Strong 75-mile-per-hour Santa Ana winds fanned the wildfires, with the aid of super-low humidity, high temperatures, and very dry vegetation....
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Is Bad Air Bad for Economy?

There were 2,521 deaths from motor vehicle accidents in two regions of California in 2006, but more lives (3,812 people) were lost from respiratory illnesses arising from particulate pollution....
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EPA Toughens Airborne Lead Standard

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its decision to set a more stringent standard of the allowable amount of airborne lead to 0.15 micrograms per cubic meter of air — 90 percent lower than the previous standard of 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter....
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