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LIVEBLOG: Public Meeting on Asian Carp Threat to Great Lakes

February 12, 2010

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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asiancarp, chicago, fishing, greatlakes, invasivespecies, liveblog, whitehouse

Federal officials want to assure the public that they're serious about stopping the dreaded Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes and destroying its $7 billion fishing industry. So they're holding a public meeting this afternoon to brief the region...

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...

Good Fish, Bad Fish: Is Your Favorite Seafood Unhealthy for the Planet?

June 8, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Reviving the World's Oceans

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food, health, healthyoceans, overfishing, seafood, worldoceansday

When I was growing up, my family lived in New Orleans for several years, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. One of my father's friends had a boat, and he liked to take it out shrimping. My dad and...

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...

I was a victim of the peanut butter recall

January 30, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment

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bushadministration, FDA, foodsafety, health, localfoods, monitoring, peanutbutter, simplesteps

Yesterday, my wife forwarded me an "Important Announcement Regarding Your Recent Purchase of Peanut Butter" that she got from Fresh Direct, the online grocery service here in New York City.This was not a good e-mail.As my wife will tell you,...

Are we ready for more heat waves and their impact on our health?

August 26, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

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california, environmentalhealth, globalwarming, health, heatwaves, publichealth

Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master’s degree at Columbia University (yeah, some "year off"), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that’s just...

What do jellyfish, drilling and whale blubber have in common?

August 4, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , The Media and the Environment

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cleanenergy, drilling, globalwarming, jellyfish, newyorktimes, oceans, whaling

Answer: They’re black and white and read all over. Sunday’s New York Times was something of a bonanza (albeit a sobering one) for anyone interested in environmental news. In a front-page story, Elisabeth Rosenthal reports from Barcelona on the...

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Scott Dodd
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