Excerpt from the testimony to the committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate on October 31, 2007. 1. NRCs Licensing and Adjudicatory Role, Michael Weber, Directory, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. The NRC staff is in the midst of an important transition- from the prelicensing, consultative role...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today voted 10-8 along party lines to approve the nomination of William Wehrum to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation. Democrats vowed to block a final confirmation vote on the former utility industry...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, by Tom Bethell (Washington: Regnery, 2005), paperback, 270 pages. For ordering information, see the ad on page one. In 63 B.C., King Mithridates VI, the great opponent of the armies of the late Roman republic, faced a terrible reversal of fortune. For years...
Scientists collect samples of air, water, soil, plants, and tissue to detect and monitor pollution. Pollutants are most often extracted from samples, then isolated by a technique called chromatography and analyzed by appropriate detection methods. Many pollutants are identified by their spectral fingerprints, unique patterns of absorbed or emitted radiation...
WASHINGTON AP -- Scientists and environmentalists said Monday that radiation limits proposed for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada aren't strict enough to protect the public. "This rule is a transparent attempt to accommodate the industry," Arjun Makhijani, a nuclear physicist who has been critical of...
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Weather Service have teamed up to offer a new, free service to fight the most preventable cause of skin cancer, overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet UV radiation. The service will notify individuals, via e-mail, when the UV intensity in an area, and therefore...
HOUSTON, Texas ENS — --> The UV Index for Houston is a Very High 9 today, prompting health and environment officials to advise people to take extra precautions such as avoiding the sun between 11 am and 4 pm. Otherwise, seek shade, cover up, wear a hat and sunglasses, and...
WASHINGTON -- Conceding there's no way to know what life will be like in a million years, the Environmental Protection Agency nevertheless proposed limits Tuesday on how much radiation a person should be exposed to from a nuclear waste dump in that distant time. The proposal would limit...
ABSTRACTDietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (?-3 PUFA) reduce sunburn, an acute inflammatory response, in humans. We assessed whether this may be mediated by reduced ultraviolet-B (UV-B) induction of proinflammatory mediators tumor necrosis factor-? (TNF-?), interleukin IL-1?, IL-6, IL-8 and prostaglandin PGE^sub 2^ in healthy skin. In a doubleblind, randomized study,...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS ? The U.S. government announced Wednesday its commitment to the new Global Ultraviolet UV Index, which replaces the existing UV reporting methods in the United States. Unveiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the National Weather Service, the Global UV Index is a set...
What is ENERGY STAR? ENERGY STAR is a government-backed program that helps businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. The program was established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and...
Radiological Emergency Response Plan, United States FederalThe Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan FRERP is a blueprint for the response of the United States federal government to a radiological emergency—that is, a crisis involving the release of nuclear radiation. Drafted by a Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA committee in 1985, FRERP...
By Benjamin Y. Lowe, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 20--EAST WHITELAND, Pa.--Township officials said recent testing showed high levels of radiation on the Cyprus Foote Mineral Co. Superfund site. The discovery, announced Tuesday night, could complicate...
Precautionary behavior is a common daily event for most of us, an instinctive reaction to any sudden and unfamiliar intrusion. It serves a valuable protective purpose in two ways. First, it causes a quick retreat to the safety of the familiar; second, it provides time for a realistic friend-or-foe assessment...
* Jeff Holmstead, the former industry lobbyist who's in charge of the EPA's office of air and radiation, let his employees leave early for Labor Day in recognition of a week's "good work"--issuing a rule preventing power plant owners from having to upgrade pollution equipment, relaxing...
WASHINGTON -- A review of epidemiology studies by two U.S. scientists found no clear association between mobile phones and cancer, while reserving some of its harshest criticism for the lead scientific witness in a cancer lawsuit against the wireless industry and dismissing the possibility of non-thermal...
U.S. EPA Air and Radiation Chief Jeffrey Holmstead is resigning from his position next month to spend more time with his family, he wrote in a letter last week to President George W. Bush.U.S. EPA Air and Radiation Chief Jeffrey Holmstead is resigning from his position next month to spend...
By Tony Freemantle, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 8--A local company in bankruptcy abandoned two industrial buildings full of highly radioactive materials, leaving the federal government and taxpayers with an $8.5 million tab for cleaning up a virtually unprecedented and dangerous...
WASHINGTON, June 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the National Environmental Trust: As you may have seen in some preliminary reports last night and this morning, the Administration is moving today at 11 a.m. with its rollback of New Source Review. We have just been briefed...
ABSTRACT The UV doses of Americans were never measured, but are needed for assessing the risks of UV-related health effects. We calculated these doses using a novel approach. The Environmental Protection Agency's EPA National Human Activity Pattern Survey NHAPS recorded the activity profiles of 9386 Americans over 24 months to...
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