Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST http://www.envirolink.org en Copyright 1992-2009 The EnviroLink Network The EnviroLink News Service compiles the most relevant news stories of interest to the global environmental community from sources around the Internet. newsdesk@envirolink.org support@envirolink.org http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812260924080.305778 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST What may be the nation�s largest spill of coal ash lay thick and largely untouched over hundreds of acres of land and waterways Wednesday after a dam broke this week, as officials and environmentalists argued over its potential toxicity. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812221922350.227696 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST A University of Utah student monkey-wrenched a federal oil- and gas-lease sale Friday, ensuring that thousands of acres near two southern Utah national parks won't be opened to drilling anytime soon. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812162213200.630647 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST In McCullom Lake Village, a community of about 1,000 people, 14 residents have developed brain cancer. Nationally the rate is roughly seven out of 100,000. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812162212480.4974 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST Three miles above sea level and sinking in its own toxic waste and lawlessness, La Rinconada teems with dreamers and schemers anxious to strike it rich, even if it means destroying their environment—and themselves—in the process. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812162212370.879496 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST California officials today unveiled a six-step strategy to promote use of safer, sustainable chemicals and wean the state's industries and consumers off toxic compounds. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812162213440.587018 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST Mr Obama selected Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and Carol Browner, a confidante of former Vice President Al Gore, to lead a White House council on energy and climate.Dr Chu, 60, is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and is a leading advocate of reducing greenhouse gases by developing new energy sources. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200812162213030.631974 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST An influential coalition of public health and environmental advocates in Canada says the federal government hasn't gone far enough and should also protect pregnant women from the controversial chemical bisphenol A. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200811302216520.849755 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST A rule on toxic substances in the workplace is one of about 20 contentious measures the Bush administration is planning to issue in its final weeks. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200811302216580.479557 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST Growing concerns over the exposure of pregnant women to chemicals that may lead to birth defects have prompted calls for a new EU-wide cosmetics labelling system which would mark out some products as off-limits to mothers-to-be. EnviroLink http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200811302217170.62496 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:07:47 EST Earth's climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists said ahead of international climate talks starting Monday in Poland. EnviroLink