Environmental Health NewsLinks to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.orgTop of sea warming 50% faster than thought.- June 19, 2008 The top few hundred metres of the world's oceans have warmed 50 per cent faster than previously thought during the past half century, a discovery that has solved an enduring puzzle about the world's rising sea levels.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/06/18/scisea118.xml Tons of PCBs may come calling at a down-at-the-heels Texas city.- June 19, 2008 If a French-owned waste management company has its way, the Port Arthur, Tex., area known as "Cancer Alley" will be the final destination for 40 million pounds of toxins from Mexico.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/us/19PCB.html Ontario joins Quebec in banning pesticides across the province.- June 19, 2008 Ontario joined Quebec in banning the sale and cosmetic use of pesticides Wednesday, but critics say the move will actually weaken existing anti-pesticide rules across the province.http://www.cftktv.com/news/14/739657 Boulder investigates possible plutonium in sewer system.- June 19, 2008 Trace amounts of plutonium were potentially washed into Boulder's wastewater system from two different sinks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology following a plutonium leak.http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_9623159 Survey: scientific misconduct underreported.- June 19, 2008 A new survey of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health suggests 1,000 cases of what could be scientific misconduct go unreported each year.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91658116 Europe's carbon market holds lessons for the U.S.- June 19, 2008 As the United States moves toward action on global warming, practical experience with carbon markets in the European Union raises a critical question: Will such systems ever workhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/18/business/emit.php Health leaders aim to cut US premature birth rate.- June 19, 2008 U.S. health leaders this week are crafting a blueprint on how to reverse the worrisome steady increase in babies being delivered prematurely, with one in every eight U.S. infants now born pre-term.http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2008/06/18/eline/links/20080618elin008.html Driving less, Americans finally react to sting of gas prices, a study says.- June 19, 2008 A new report says the slowdown in the economy and soaring gasoline prices have finally persuaded Americans to drive fewer miles in fewer gas-guzzling vehicles.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/business/19gas.html South Korean president: No older US beef.- June 19, 2008 South Korean President Lee Myung-bak pledged to keep U.S. beef out of South Korea unless Washington agrees to ban meat from older cattle, seeking Thursday to defuse a political crisis sparked by health concerns that has derailed his plan to boost U.S. ties and reinvigorate the economy.http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/world/20080619_ap_southkoreanpresidentnoolderus... Yellow buses put schools in the red.- June 19, 2008 As school superintendents across the country finalize their budgets for the fall, major spikes in the costs of cafeteria food, heating oil, and diesel are resulting in educational cuts from fewer teaching positions to used textbooks.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121382803163386367.html |