Green View: Health Hazards Committee to Make Presentation to the Mayor
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:00:24 -0800

As part of a Canada-wide movement to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer, our local Sustainable Cobourg group will encourage decision-makers and town planners to consider the rapidly growing number of cancers caused by man-made contaminants in ...

'Space Junk' illustrates the growing danger in Low Earth Orbit
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:40:52 -0800

By the 1990s, scientists at NASA realized that man-made environmental hazards in that shell already exceeded meteoroid hazards . They gave the space station a shield to protect it from collisions with these marble-sized missiles.

Portland fire chief stepping down
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:05:09 -0800

11 emphasis on fire departments planning better for natural and manmade disasters . "He's done a fantastic job for the city, in my opinion," City Manager Mark Rees said. "He has some very good high-level staff who can keep the department moving in a ...

Carter County LEPC continues to reorganize
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:32:39 -0800

By Robert Sorrell After a few years without a Local Emergency Planning Committee, the Carter County LEPC continues to reorganize and prepare for potential hazards and disasters . Photo by Brandon Hicks - Ron Carr of Mountain States Health Alliance spoke ...

Bay Area Survival Gear Website, The Panic Store, Advises and Reminds Public ...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:41:43 -0800

"It is difficult to predict when a natural or man-made disaster will occur, yet being prepared is the best defense to possible devastation and knowing what items to keep in an emergency arsenal is essential to survival in the aftermath of a disaster," ...

Oil company has made amends for Gulf oil spill
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:34:41 -0800

The results have been nothing short of amazing in such a short amount of time since the disaster . The Gulf's economy has rebounded dramatically, and it appears the environment is well on its way to a healthy recovery. We owe a huge debt of gratitude ...

Plans to spruce up Helensburgh's West Bay beach
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:58:10 -0800

The beach head is heavily polluted with dead and rotting seaweed, plastics, syringes, glass, food and drinks containers, sanitary items and other man-made debris which we are receiving from our surrounding areas. When there are high winds and tides, ...

Snowy Weather Tips from Emergency Mgmt
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:23:11 -0800

Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan a way to contact one another, such as enlisting the help of a third party in another state as a contact, and review what you will do in different situations. Also, in the event that you are ...

World and national briefs
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:45:19 -0800

Bangkok one of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds and other man-made hazards .

Eliminate preventable causes of cancer: Cobourg organization
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:47:49 -0800

That's the message Sustainable Cobourg's health hazards committee took to Cobourg Mayor Gil Brocanier this week. Committee chairwoman Judy Newman Brown, Susan Nakamichi and Judy Smith Torrie presented the book 'Cancer-101 Solutions to a Preventable ...

Collapse Casts Light on the Murky World of Billboards
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:29:14 -0800

For decades, the debate about the giant advertising signs that line New York City's highways has centered on whether they are hazardous as distractions to drivers, not as man-made sequoias that could topple over and destroy cars and buildings.

Berlau: Saving Lives Requires Taking Risks
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:01:26 -0800

by David Bier on January 17, 2012 In Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health, CEI's John Berlau describes how environmentalists have intervened in the economy in ways that have caused many deaths. In this passage, he criticizes the ...

County Water Agency Preparing for Disaster
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:02:26 -0800

The district is now seeking public comment to improve their 2007 Orange County Regional Water and Wastewater Multi- Hazard Mitigation Plan (Plan). They are focusing on disasters , both manmade and natural. The goal is to minimize damage caused by a ...

Eliminate preventable causes of cancer: Cobourg organization
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:47:49 -0800

That's the message Sustainable Cobourg's health hazards committee took to Cobourg Mayor Gil Brocanier this week. Committee chairwoman Judy Newman Brown, Susan Nakamichi and Judy Smith Torrie presented the book 'Cancer-101 Solutions to a Preventable ...

EPA's internal watchdogs says agency is unable to protect the public from ...
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:02:58 -0800

by Andrew Schneider on January 10, 2012 The Environmental Protection Agency is the government's best hope for protection against the hazards of nanomaterial, but an internal investigation says it can't protect the public from these sub-atomic creations ...

US to hold talks with EU to limit space debris
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:28:38 -0800

In total, some 19000 manmade objects this size or bigger orbit Earth as of July 2009; most are in low-Earth orbit. Countless smaller objects are also circling the planet washington the United States will work with other nations to develop an ...

The rising cost of catastrophes
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:53:45 -0800

The world has been so preoccupied with the man-made catastrophes of subprime mortgages and sovereign debt that it may not have noticed how much economic mayhem nature has wreaked. With earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, floods in Thailand and ...

FLASH Offers Tips for Preventing Frozen Pipes
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:14:50 -0800

Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) r , a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is the country's leading consumer advocate for strengthening homes and safeguarding families from natural and manmade disasters . FLASH collaborates with more than 100 ...

Counterterror, disaster response centers not sharing information
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:53:21 -0800

Hurricane Katrina, meanwhile, exposed weaknesses in how those same bureaucracies responded to both manmade and natural catastrophes. Report an error: See something wrong in this story? The response was to bolster two networks of specialized centers at ...

Remember Healthy Food Choices?
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:36:34 -0800

What would you do if you learned that many of our foods including some fresh produce and meat but mostly processed foods made with such ingredients as beet sugar, corn, or soy are toxic from man-made , genetically modified organisms (GMOs).