Air & Climate Files 
2003

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Boulder Glacier Photos in 1932 and 1988  -  witness the drastic change

• Climate Change: Selected Nations’ Reports on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Varied in Their Adherence to Standards  - United States General Accounting Office (GAO-04-98) 23dec03
• Solutia PCBs: Anniston, Alabama Locals Likely Breathing PCBs - AP 29dec03

• Bush: Court Blocks Easing of E.P.A. Rules on Industrial Pollution -  NY Times 24dec03

• Asthma: Early Exposure to Chemicals May Boost Risk of Asthma - LA Times 12dec03

• Antibiotic-Resistant Germs: In Soil, Water, Food, Air -  Star-Ledger (NJ) 8dec03

• Into Thin Air: Kyoto Accord May Not Die (or Matter) -  NY Times 4dec03

• Global Warming 'Detected' in the US - BBC News 15nov03

• Polar Winds are Spinning Faster; Scientists Would Like to Know Why -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 29oct03

• Asbestos: EPA Warning on Asbestos is Under Attack - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 25oct03

• Gas and Oil Drilling Called Big Methane Culprit - LA Times 7oct03

• Diesel School Bus Exhaust: Statewide Program will Retrofit Vehicles to Reduce Noxious Diesel Pollution - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 7oct03

• Decline in Oceans' Phytoplankton Alarms Scientists: Possibly Linked to Warming Seas -  SF Chronicle 6oct03

• States to Sue EPA Over Refusal to Restrict Tailpipe Greenhouse Gases - SF Chronicle & NY Times 4oct03

• Kyoto: EU Alarm as Putin Backtracks on Kyoto -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 2oct03

• Pentagon Study: An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security - Schwartz & Randall / GBN 1oct03

• Bush Covers Up Climate Research: White House Officials Play Down Its Own Scientists' Evidence of Global Warming  - The Observer (UK) 21sep03

• Pollution Policy Drives Technological Innovation: Scientific Solutions are Spurred by Government Regulation -  Nature 17sep03

• Children Suffer Most from the Effects of Ozone Depletion - Press Release / WHO 16sep03

• Phthalates, Alkylphenols, Pesticides, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, and Other Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Indoor Air and Dust - Env. Sci. Tech 13sep03

• 9.11.01: Two Years Later: UC Davis Scientist Concurs that EPA Reports Misled the Public -  SF Chronicle 10sep03

• China's Largest Lead Processing Base Closed due to Pollution - Xinhua News Agency (China) 9sep03

• Plan to Bury CO2 Under North Sea -  The Guardian (UK) 5sep03

• China: 17,000 Houses Collapse, 200,000 Evacuated in Flood-Hit China - Agence France-Presse 2sep03

• It's the Hottest for 2,000 Years -  The Guardian (UK) 1sep03

• Army Burns Deadly Chemical -  Cox News Service 1sep03

• France Says Heat Wave Death Toll Is 11,435 -  AP 31aug03

• Bush Team Clears Carbon Dioxide  - Wall Street Journal 29aug03

• Destroying Chemical Weapons: Army's Problem-Plagued Program More Costly than Originally Planned -  Chemical & Engineering News 26aug03

• MCS and scented products: Julianna Martin, 25, Syracuse, N.Y.  Interview with person with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) - NY Times 24aug03

• EPA Pressed to Call Air Safe After 9/11  - AP 23aug03

• EPA's 9/11 Air Ratings Distorted  -  LA Times & NY Times23aug03

• White House Misled City on Post-9/11 Health Issues -  Newsday 22aug03

  • Evaluation Report: EPA’s Response to the World Trade Center Collapse - EPA Office of Inspector General 21augu03

• Heatwave's Warning for Future of Farming -  New Scientist 20aug03

• Dr. Lucien Abenhaïm: French Health Official Quits Over Heat Wave Deaths -  NY Times 18aug03

• Midwestern Smog Pushes Ozone to Limit: Pollutants Wafting East Trip D.C. Area Sensors -  Washington Post 10aug03

• US Army Begins Destroying Chemical Weapons - People's Daily (Beijing) 10aug03

• Too Hot to Handle... But we had Better Get Used to It -  The Guardian (UK) 9aug03

• Bush Misuses Science, Report Says: Democrats Say Data Are Distorted to Boost Conservative Policies -  Washington Post 8aug02

  • Politics and the Bush Administration - Rep. Henry A Waxman / US House of Rep. Comm. on Gov. Reform 7aug03

• Nuclear Power Plants Shutdown in Germany: Heatwave Hits German Nuclear Plants Forcing Shutdown of Obrigheim - Agence France-Presse 8aug03

• Anniston: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Permits Army to Burn Chemical Weapons - NY Times 8aug03

• Competitive Enterprise Institute Suit Challenges Climate Change Report by U.S. -  NY Times 7aug03

• Global Warming may be Speeding Up, Fears Scientist  - The Guardian (UK) 6aug03

• Scorching Weather Brings Damage and Death to Europe  - NY Times 5aug03

• Global Warming a Weapon of Mass Destruction, scientist says - Agence France-Press 28jul03

• Ford Says New S.U.V.'s Less Fuel-Efficient Than Old Ones -  NY Times 18jul03

• Extreme Weather Prompts Unprecedented Global Warming Alert - The Independent 3jul03

  • According to the World Meteorological Organization, Extreme Weather Events Might Increase - Press Release / WMO 2jul03

• Climate Change: Report by the E.P.A. Leaves Out Data on Climate Change - NY Times 19jun03

• Fuel Cell: Hydrogen Fuel May Disturb Ozone Layer - AP 12jun03

• Global Warming 9 Times Greater Than Original Estimates  - Contra Costa Times 10jun03

• Ethanol is the Largest Scam in Our Nation's History - Nicholas E Hollis / Agribusiness Examiner 6jun03

• Amount Of Ethanol In Gas May Double Despite Unresolved Environmental Problems  - AP 3jun03

• Arctic Sea-Ice Cover Reaches Record Low - World Climate News Jun03

• Changing World Technologies Wants to Burn Turkey Waste for Energy  - AP 16may03

• Incinerator: Waste-to-Energy Plan on Board Agenda -  Santa Cruz Sentinel 5may03

• Why Ecocide Is 'Good News' for the GOP  - E Magazine 5may03

• Traffic Pollution Damages Men's Sperm  - (with abstract) New Scientist 30apr03

• Asthma in 25% of Children in Central Harlem  - NY Times 19apr03

• Backyard Burn: Barrels A Burning Health Problem - EPA [Washington State] Factsheet 3apr03

• Chemicals in Home a Big Smog Source  - LA Times 9mar03

• Bill Favors Smokers' Neighbors  - SF Chronicle 9mar03

• Number of Killer Storms and Droughts Increasing Worldwide -  World Water Council (Marseille, France) 27feb03

• Blair Outlines Plans to Slash Emissions Over 50 Years  - NY Times 25feb03

• National Academy of Sciences Faults Bush Global Warming Plan - NAS Press Release 25feb03

  • NAS Report: Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (2003) Executive Summary -  National Academies 25feb03

• Mercury Threat to Kids Rising, Unreleased EPA Report Warns  - Wall Street Journal 20feb03

• US PIRG: Group Uses U.S. Zip Codes To Map Industrial Pollutants  - Wall Street Journal 23jan03

• Private Labs Fake Environmental Tests  - AP 22jan03

• US Pressuring Industries to Cut Greenhouse Gases  - NY Times 20jan03

• Burning Kyoto's Bridges - EDITORIAL / Boston Globe 19jan03

• CFC Smugglers Jailed, Fined  - ENS 9jan03

• One Generation to Save World, Worldwatch Report Warns  - Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• LA Emissions Standard Reached First Time in 40 Years -  Los Angeles Daily News 2jan03

• New Pollution Standards Prompt Suit: 9 States Challenge U.S. Decision to Relax Rules  - Washington Post 1jan03

More on INCINERATORS

• Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from N.  American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors in Nunavut, Arctic Canada  Barry Commoner CBNS Sep00
• Is Dioxin Destroyed by Extremely High-Temperature Incineration?  Comments on Rigo et al.
• Children living near Incinerators & Landfills More likely to get Cancers - (3 separate abstracts) 

• "New Car Smell" - Volatile Organic Compounds In a New Automobile Scientific Instrument Services 23dec99

• Ban the Burn Barrels! Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Household Waste In Barrels - Report No. EPA-600/R-97-134a. Nov97

• Dioxin: EPA Collusion with Industry: A Very Brief Overview   -  Synthesis/Regeneration 7-8 Summer 1995

• Hazardous Waste Combustion in Cement Kilns - Introduction to Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Burning Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns Apr95

• Substances in Diesel Exhaust Listed by Cal EPA as Toxic Air Contaminants

• What's Wrong With Incineration Of Medical Wastes -  Huff, MJ, and deFur, P., Virginia Commonwealth University- Center for Environmental Studies (undated)

• Incinerators & Landfills - Cancers in Proximity to Incinerators (3 separate abstracts) Jun00

• Incinerators & Landfills - Childhood cancers, birthplaces, incinerators and landfill sites  -  International Journal of Epidemiology Jun00