Rachel's #922: The Enforcement Game

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>Rachel's Democracy & Health News #922

> " Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide? "

>Thursday, August 30, 2007...............Printer-friendly version

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>The Enforcement Game

> Unfortunately, every suggestion in this satiric essay is based on

> actual events and practices. You can't make this stuff up.

>More Evidence of Harm from 'Safe' Levels of Toxic Lead in Kids

> The official " level of concern " for toxic lead in children's blood

> is 10 micrograms per deciLiter of blood. Now a new study reveals

> that children's test scores in school are reduced by blood-lead levels

> as low as 2 micrograms per decliliter. Many previous studies have

> shown the same thing.

>Bird by Bird, the Avian Population Is Shrinking

> " The study confirms what my grandfather feared

> and what most of us now know. Birds that I used to see routinely

> growing up in New England -- evening grosbeaks, eastern meadowlarks,

> northern bobwhites -- are in free fall. The losses are mind-boggling. "

>Study: Tuna on the Decline

> " The horrifying reality is that the huge decline in abundance

> happened so quickly, " said Molly Lutcavage, director of the Large

> Pelagics Research Center at University of New Hampshire.

>Will Oceans Surge 59 Centimetres This Century -- or 25 Metres?

> " If we follow 'business-as-usual' growth of greenhouse gas

> emissions, I think that we will lock in a guaranteed sea-level rise of

> several metres, which, frankly, means that all hell is going to break

> loose, " writes Dr. James Hansen, head of the climate science

> program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard

> Institute for Space Studies.

>Russia Plans To Build Nuclear Power Plants That Float on the Ocean

> Some in the Russian government say the floating nuclear power

> plants, at $360 million each, are too expensive, requiring a decade to

> break even. But the state-run company says more than 20 countries in

> Africa, Asia and the Middle East have expressed interest.

>John Gofman Dead at 88; Considered Father of Antinuclear Movement

> One of our great heroes has died. In the 1960s, Dr. John Gofman

> began to challenge the official stories about the safety of nuclear

> power and medical radiation, and it cost him dearly. His early

> conclusions were subsequently validated, but the risks he identified

> have continued to be ignored by the electric power industry and by a

> medical industry that still uses much larger doses of radiation for

> medical tests than are required.

 

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