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New EPA Rule Requires Chemical Disclosure for Offshore Fracking

The latest EPA rule would merely require companies to report the chemicals that they are discharging into the ocean.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - The U.S. EPA published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California to disclose the chemicals they discharge into the ocean.

Oil and gas companies have been fracking offshore California for perhaps as long as two decades, but they largely flew under the radar until recently.

Oral Argument for Oregon Youths` Climate Change Case Heard at University of Oregon School of Law

On Thursday, these young plaintiffs will get to hear what the Oregon Court of Appeals thinks of their alleged rights and of the State’s position that they don’t have a right to have their case heard.

(EUGENE) - This Thursday, two Eugene youths’ climate change case (Chenaik v. Kitzhaber) will be argued before the Oregon Court of Appeals in their hometown at the University of Oregon School of Law.

The lawsuit was filed against Governor Kitzhaber and the State of Oregon for failing to protect essential natural resources, including state waters, coast lines, and the atmosphere, as required under the Public Trust Doctrine.

Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Oil Resurgence

The clashes kick off 2014 in much the same way as 2013 ended – a return to violence in a country that had seen important security gains in recent years.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar Province.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly took control of Ramadi and Fallujah, bombing police headquarters and killing dozens. On New Year's Day Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent in reinforcements to take back control of AnbarProvince's two largest cities.

Waterfront Sportsman Motorcycle Ride Protest for Lake Jordan Mixers and Walmart Distribution Center

Waterfront Sportsman is committed to all types of waterfront activities for all sportsmen... the Redneck Environmentalist, and the upcoming Bike Rally/Ride info.

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Ricky Gunn's Labcorp/ Burlington Medical Sludge Spreading Petticoat is Showing, Lets let the bikers rip it off

Petro Stopping Center and Golden Skillet on the Buck Horn Road and Downtown Mebane designated for Waterfront Sportsman Rally Points for Daytona Bike Week March 7-16.

Photographic Evidence - Okinawa Marines

Anyone "out there" in possession of photographic evidence of this material being received, cleaned and re-stocked on Okinawa during that time frame, or even later (I'm sure other Marines are going to come forward)?

(WASHINGTON, DC) - I'm working to assist a former Marine now living in New York who was with Service Battalion, Third Marine Division on Okinawa in 1969 - 1970.

He was involved in receiving, cleaning and placing inventory equipment (vehicles, clothing and other static material) being returned from Vietnam to the 3rdMarDiv headquarters on Okinawa after our combat Marines began pulling out of Vietnam in 1969.

EHN New Year`s Headlines: New Documentary on U.S. Wildfire Crisis; Maine Shrimpers Face Total-Loss Season

Roundup of health news stories from around the United States.

(CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA) - New scientific findings provide evidence that exposure to certain POPs in the womb may be associated with an increased risk of developing asthma that persists into young adulthood.

At age 20, children of mothers with the highest blood concentrations of two different POPs during pregnancy, HCB and a specific PCB, were nearly twice as likely as children of mothers with the lowest concentrations to have been prescribed asthma medication.

Photos Capture Afghanistan in the 1960`s

From Kabul's steep earthen neighborhoods to lush green countryside, snow capped mountains and agriculture, see Afghanistan before it was ravaged by 30+ years of war.

(SALEM) - I have posted a collection of photographs that document Afghanistan as it appeared during the late 1960's. The collection was given to me while I was covering the war in Afghanistan during the winter of 2006 and 2007 by soldiers at Camp Phoenix, the U.S. Army military base in Kabul.

I do not know the photographer, the assumption is that they were shot by a British diplomat based here at that time. I hope maybe the photographer will let us know their name at some point, we would enjoy knowing more, particularly the year or years the photos were taken.

Report: Rural Children Exposed to Pesticides Demonstrate Significant DNA Damage

Assessing DNA damage in children environmentally exposed to pesticides through using the comet assay and the micronucleus test

(LONDON) - Subjects exposed to pesticides had significantly higher AChE and PChE activities than controls, although average levels were well below the biological exposure limit. In addition, those exposed to pesticides had significantly higher levels of steady-state FPG sites and SSB levels (p < 0.001), as well as MN levels.

In conclusion, despite the relatively low pesticide exposures in the test group of children, significant biological/developmental effects were detected.

Threatened Listing Proposal Not Enough to Conserve Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Aggressive Habitat Protection, Ending Threats from Tower Collisions and Pesticides Urgently Needed

(WASHINGTON, DC) - American Bird Conservancy (ABC), one of the nation's leading bird conservation groups, says that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposal to list the western population of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act falls short of providing the necessary protections for the imperiled bird species whose numbers have plummeted in recent decades.

New Report: Unregulated Contaminants Common in Drinking Water

Eighteen of the chemicals are not regulated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act so utilities do not have to meet any limit or even monitor for them.

(WASHINGTON, DC ) - Traces of 18 unregulated chemicals were found in drinking water from more than one-third of U.S. water utilities in a nationwide sampling, according to new, unpublished research by federal scientists.

Included are 11 perfluorinated chemicals, an herbicide, two solvents, caffeine, an antibacterial compound, a metal and an antidepressant.