Air & Climate Files 
2002

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The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion - Energy Bulletin 11jan05
Boulder Glacier Photos in 1932 and 1988  -  witness the drastic change

• LA Emissions Standard Reached First Time in 40 Years -  Los Angeles Daily News 2jan02

• New Pollution Standards Prompt Suit: 9 States Challenge U.S. Decision to Relax Rules  - Washington Post 1jan02

• Dioxins at Ground Zero after 9/11: EPA Report Buries a Revelation - NY Daily News 31dec02

• 2002 Heading for No. 2 Spot in Climate Records  - ENS 12dec02

• Japan To Stiffen Incinerator Emission Curbs  - Dow Jones Newswires 30nov02

• EPA Eases Clean-Air Rules For Power Plants, Refineries - AP 22nov02

• The cause of decreased pan evaporation over the last 50 Years -  Science v.298, 1nov02

• London will feel the Heat as Climate Changes  -  The Independent (UK) 25oct02

• U.S. Supreme Court ends Guam incinerator case  - Pacific Daily News 11oct02

• U.S. and Auto Makers Fight California's Clean-Air Plan  - Wall Street Journal 11oct02

• Bush against California's Zero Emissions Requirement for Cars - AP 10oct02

• How Green Is BP? - (rhetorical question) NY Times 8dec02

• 12 Ethanol Plants to Install Emissions Controls  - ENS 3oct02

• Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Is Shrinking As Temperatures Rise  - AP 30sep02

• Bankrolling Polluting Technology: The World Bank Group and Incineration  (Summary) - GAIA Sep02

• Collapsing Glacier in southern Russia Kills 100 - AP 21sep02

• Toxic Beginnings: Cancer Risks to Children from California's Air Pollution  - National Environmental Trust Sep02

• Incineration and Waste Mafia Symposium, Yokohama, Japan 21sep02

• Record-High Dioxin Detected in Osaka  - Japan Economic Newswire 18sep02 

• Burning of Chemical Arms Puts Fear in Wind  - NY Times 16sep02

• With White House Approval, EPA Pollution Report Omits Global Warming Section  - NY Times 15sep02

• The Protocol (Kyoto) Bush Tried to Kill Lives to Fight Another Day  - The Independent (UK) 4sep02

• EPA Says Diesel Exhaust Probably Causes Lung Cancer  - AP 3sep02

• Hog Wild for Pollution Trading  - Fortune 2sep02

• California Leads in Dirty Air  - AP 29aug02

• Incinerators Cost Money & Clean Air  -  The Detroit News 28aug02

• Putting Garbage to Good Use: Burn the Garbage to Make Energy - Opinion / NY Times 15aug02

• Regional And Global Impacts Of Vast Pollution Cloud Detailed In New Scientific Study - UNEP 12aug02

• Researchers combining mining and milling wastes to create fuel -  AP 9aug02

• Asthma: Waiting to Inhale Discriminating by race and locale  - East Bay Express 7aug02

• Korean Waste Burning Plant Contaminating Local Residents - Asia Pulse 1aug02

• Sexual Maturation in Relation to Polychlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Sharpe and Skakkebaek's Hypothesis Revisited - EHP Aug02

• Fuel Cell Car Gets EPA OK: Honda expects it on road by year's end -  SF Chronicle 25jul02

• Puerto Rican Health Officials Warn Against Incinerator - EFE News Service 23jul02

• Warmer Climate Is Linked To Global Rise in Epidemics  -  Wall Street Journal 21jun02

• Alaska's Glaciers Disappearing At Rapid Rate - AP 18jul02

• Bush Global Warming Plan Called "BALONEY!" by Democrats -  Reuters 12jul02

• Tragic Saga Forced Incinerator Shutdown -  Irish Independent 9jul02

• The Truth on Warming - Mark Hertsgaard  / The Nation 8jul02

• Auto Industry Opposes Clean Air -  AP 5jul02

• Incineration Repackaged - Stephen Lester / Everyone's Backyard Summer 2002

• Unhealthy Air  -  Senator Jim Jeffords  / NY Times 30jun02

• As Trees Die, Some Cite the Climate - NY Times 25jun02

• Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol - Science v.296, 14jun02

• EPA Chief Never Read Global Warming Report: Didn't Know Anything About It -  Reuters 13jun02

• Off-Road Diesels: EPA, OMB Launch Joint Effort To Tighten Diesel Emission Rules - Wall Street Journal 10jun02

• As the Globe Warms Up, Bush Won't Believe It  -  Boston Globe 7jun02

• Bush says "adapt to inevitable" - NY Times 3jun02

• EPA Report on Global Warming: U.S. Climate Action Report 2002 - Key National Findings Adapted from the U.S. National Assessment - EPA Jun02

• Tiny Pollutants Have Global Reach and Effect -  AP 25may02

• Chemicals emitted by diesel trucks and other vehicles are main cause - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 16may02

• Ethanol Plants Produce VOCs and Carbon Monoxide  - Chemical & Engineering News v.80, n.19 13may02

• Chemical Weapons Incinerator Workers Pressured by Management into Cutting Corners -  AP 2may02

• Airborne Toxic Chemicals Exceed EPA Standards by 10X  -  Knight Ridder 19apr02

• Incineration and Gasification: A Toxic Comparison -  Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League 12apr02

• Army’s Incineration of Deadly Gases VX, Sarin, and GB Creates National Debate -  MSNBC 29mar02

  • Gas Masks Provided To 35,000 Birmingham, Alabama Residents: Chemical Weapons Incinerator Anniston Army Depot - AP 27mar02

• William Clay Ford Jr: Just another short-sighted auto executive with no interest in the environment, our oil dependence, or the truth. - NY Times 28mar02

• It's The Climate, Stupid - Editorial / Chemical and Engineering News 11mar02

• Red Star: West Oakland Second-worst Polluter - East Bay Express 20feb02

• E.P.A. and Energy Department War Over Clean Air Rules  - NY Times 19feb02

• Tiny Air Pollutants May Get Into the Blood - Reuters  18feb02

  • Passage of Inhaled Particles Into the Blood Circulation in Humans - Circulation 29jan02

• A Microphysical Connection Among Biomass Burning, Cumulus Clouds, and Stratospheric Moisture - Science 15feb02

• WTC: N.Y. Air Hazards Found EPA Assurances Contradicted by UCD Scientists -  Sacramento Bee 12feb02

• School Bus Diesel Fumes May be Cause of Rise in Asthma - AP 7feb02

  • Children’s Exposure to Diesel Exhaust on School Buses John Wargo, Ph.D. / Environment & Human Health, Inc. Feb02

• Media Goofed on Antarctic Data Global Warming Interpretation -  SF Chronicle 4feb02

• WTC: Yearning to breathe in a toxic zone -  MSNBC 11jan02

• Ambient Air Pollution and Risk of Birth Defects in Southern California  - American Journal of Epidemiology  1jan02

More on INCINERATORS

• Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from N.  American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors in Nunavut, Arctic Canada  Barry Commoner CBNS Sep00
• Is Dioxin Destroyed by Extremely High-Temperature Incineration?  Comments on Rigo et al.
• Children living near Incinerators & Landfills More likely to get Cancers - (3 separate abstracts) 

• "New Car Smell" - Volatile Organic Compounds In a New Automobile Scientific Instrument Services 23dec99

• Ban the Burn Barrels! Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Household Waste In Barrels - Report No. EPA-600/R-97-134a. Nov97

• Dioxin: EPA Collusion with Industry: A Very Brief Overview   -  Synthesis/Regeneration 7-8 Summer 1995

• Hazardous Waste Combustion in Cement Kilns - Introduction to Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Burning Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns Apr95

• Substances in Diesel Exhaust Listed by Cal EPA as Toxic Air Contaminants

• What's Wrong With Incineration Of Medical Wastes -  Huff, MJ, and deFur, P., Virginia Commonwealth University- Center for Environmental Studies (undated)

• Incinerators & Landfills - Cancers in Proximity to Incinerators (3 separate abstracts) Jun00

• Incinerators & Landfills - Childhood cancers, birthplaces, incinerators and landfill sites  -  International Journal of Epidemiology Jun00