Still coughing and whatnot, but it seems that the more unbroken sleep I get the better off I am - also did a little shopping and took care of some quick errands with my MIL driving me around on Saturday; first time I’d felt like I hadn’t been knocked around for a week or so. Enjoyed the nice weather (raining cats and dogs now) and soaked up a ( Read more... )

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/

See http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/

I know that the Administrator was down these in the last couple of days, and that there’s a huge gearing up on this issue.

Website for the remains of the old GM that they’re liquidating.   Wanna buy a golf course or a Superfund site?

At the first day of hearings on GM’s proposed asset sale restructuring chief Albert Koch estimated on June 30 that the company’s environmental liabilities for all sites are $530 million. Chief Executive Officer Fritz Henderson said money ( Read more... )

Risk map setup from air toxics risks on causing cancer in the USA via the EPA:

Parts of Los Angeles, Calif., and Madison County, Ill., had the highest cancer risks in the nation - 1200 in 1 million and 1100 in 1 million, according to the EPA data. They were followed by two neighborhoods in Allegheny County, Pa., and one in Tuscaloosa County, Ala.

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Dow Chemical donating contaminated fish to the poor.

The end of the ‘Performance Track’ program for self-’regulation’.

If the Seattle Press-Intelligencier survives the next month, it will be as a online paper only.   Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver is about to cease publishing.

The new US government budget (PDF link) under Obama is going to cap federal employee raises (the automatic kind) to 2% next year; the base this last year for us was 3.9%.   On ( Read more... )

Well, they had them, and not all of them were found and properly disposed of,  apparently….

Article from a local newspaper about the groundwater contamination - in my neighborhood.   Yes, I knew about this.  Lockformer has a big sign out for 18 acres of property behind their factory for sale. 
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