Truckers on terror watch: truck drivers are the new eyes and ears of the nation's early warning system against terrorists. Whether on the road or at fuel stations and rest areas, drivers are trained to report trucks hauling hazardous waste without the proper marking or permits, unusual chatter on CBs and phony traffic accidents.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the trucking industry has assumed an increasingly critical role in both government and business security strategies to confront the threat of a terrorist strike. Recognizing that practically every product that is delivered in this country comes by truck, whether to a mammoth manufacturing...

More for cleanups, acid rain studies.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intnds to pour significantly more money into garbage disposal -- cleaning up abandoned toxic waste dumps and enforcing new regulations that govern the way small businesses and industries handle hazardous wastes (SN: 8/4/84, p. 71). EPA's proposed fiscal year 1986 budget also expands its...

Chemical exposures on the job may be linked to diseases in nurses.
First ever national survey finds widespread exposure to chemicals and radiation and almost no mandatory workplace health protections. WASHINGTON -- A first ever national survey of nurses' exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer,...

Supersized TVs and electronics.
The world's consumers own about 1.7 billion television sets--one for every four people--and 150 million new ones are added each year. Yet while in the poorest countries there is only one TV per dozen people, the average U.S. household has 2.4. As for personal computers, 1 billion had been...

Military mop-up.
THE U.S. MILITARY DOESN'T WANT ANY MORE ROCKY FLATS OR CORNHUSKER COVERUPS. IT' CLEANING HOUSE, AND CLAIMS TO HAVE UNDERGONE A "CULTURE CHANGE." At a community hearing in the mid-1980s, when civilian neighbors of a U.S. military base in Virginia complained that toxic waste from the facility was contaminating...

Acute hazardous substance releases resulting in adverse health consequences in children: Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance system, 1996-2003.
Introduction Although sudden, unintentional exposures to hazardous chemicals most commonly are associated with manufacturing and transportation, and adversely affect employees (Horton, Berkowitz, & Kaye, 2004), children are sometimes injured when such disasters strike. Because their organs are at various stages of growth, children may be more susceptible...

SC taps 117 trial courts for 'green' cases.
Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN The Supreme Court (SC) said that 117 trial courts will handle exclusively and resolve expeditiously all environmental cases like violations of the laws on mining, forestry, marine, fisheries, wildlife, waste management, toxic substances, and hazardous waste. Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno...

Total Parts Plus Announces China RoHS Labeling Solution.
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Total Parts Plus, a leading provider of obsolescence and environmental compliance management services announces its China RoHS labeling solution. With the emergence of China RoHS and its deadline looming in March 2007, the labeling requirement is taking center stage....

Coco-diesel fuel savings demonstrated.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA Coconut methyl ester (CME), environmentfriendly biological fuel mixed with diesel, has brought fuel savings of up to P242,491 yearly per vehicle as tested on nine vehicles aside from significantly cutting black smoke emission. A report released by the Philippine Coconut Authority...

Lethal waters: the assault on our marine mammals.
In the past six months hundreds of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales have been killed around the world. This is not just at the hand of whale factory ships in the Southern Ocean. These marine mammals face life-threatening dangers much closer to our shores. Toxic pollution, fishing nets,...