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Feds Take First Steps to Regulate Drugs in Drinking Water

December 23, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment

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drinkingwater, drugs, health, medicine, pharmaceuticals, regulations

The Associated Press is reporting this week that federal regulators under President Obama are taking the first steps toward regulating drugs in the nation's drinking water supply -- a problem first reported by science writer Elizabeth Royte in "Drugging Our...

Don't take your drinking water for granted on this World Water Day

March 18, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment

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catskills, cleanwateract, drinkingwater, naturalgasdrilling, newyorkcity, smartercities, waterpollution, worldwaterday

Where does your drinking water come from?Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The answer he always gets is: "From the faucet."This Sunday, however, is World Water Day, an event created by...

Would Bobby Kennedy have wanted the RFK Bridge named after him?

November 19, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
globalwarming, newyorkcity, pollution, RFK, transportation

Crossing the Triborough Bridge last night on the way home from LaGuardia airport, I smiled as my cab passed under a giant banner trumpeting today's renaming of the bridge in honor of Robert F. Kennedy. RFK is one of my...

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