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Standard for Benzene Levels in Texas - Unacceptable

Only in Texas would a Houston mayor’s task force declare that current levels of exposure to benzene pose unacceptable increased risk for public health in one year, and in the next year the state agency responsible for protecting the environment and public health increases acceptable levels for exposure to the toxic pollutant. Recent studies continue to confirm that benzene exposure at these levels is too risky for public health.
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Jay Lininger Ecologist: Defending Wild Habitat - Saving Ecosystems

Jay Lininger grew up in Ashland, Oregon. His family earned a living as hard rock miners -- strip mining for building materials. “All my summer jobs were driving a truck or working on a rock crusher,” Lininger recalls. Now, as an ecologist with the Center for Biological Diversity, he drives his truck in the Permian Basin Desert in defense of the 5-inch dunes sagebrush lizard against the expanding oil industry.
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Disasters Offer Warning About Dangers of Nuclear Power in Texas

More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, news continues to unfold about the potential for disease and death from exposure to radiation that continues to contaminate air, water and land. It will take decades to understand the horrendous impact this accident will have on the world. Lessons learned from Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island sound a warning for Texas where the danger of environmental and medical catastrophes are one accident away at two nuclear power plants.
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Texas Aquifers Threatened by Population Growth, Development and Pollution

Texas gets 80 percent of its water supply from aquifers, according to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB). Aquifer water levels are declining because of drought and increasing demands on water supply due to population growth. The quality of aquifers also is in jeopardy from construction runoff, leaking toxic waste sites and storage tanks, injection wells, industry pollution, and the use of agrochemicals on farm land.
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Reckoning for an Environmental Tragedy

The Harris County Attorney’s office is suing the companies responsible for the horrific poisoning of the San Jacinto River, Upper Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel. The poison of major concern is dioxin (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins) leaking from waste pits located on the western bank of the San Jacinto River, just north of Interstate Highway 10 bridge.
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The Texas Water Crisis

Texas water authorities at every level are on alert. Last summer’s extremely hot, dry weather was a wake-up call. Now more than a dozen Texas towns are in danger of running out of water. Texas is in a water crisis. To make it official, the Texas Water Development Board December report says the state reservoirs are extremely low even after some autumn rain. The reservoirs are only 60 percent full, the lowest since 1978, the first year state water levels were recorded. Water levels also are down in aquifers.
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Suggested Reading:

A Climate for Change: Global warming facts for faith-based decisions by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe and Dr. Andrew Farley
Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want by Bryan Welch
Diary of an Eco-outlaw by Diane Wilson
Green Recovery by Andrew Winston
Green to Gold by Andrew Winston
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard
One Million Acres & No Zoning by Lars Lerup
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory Lovins
Swim Against the Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow by Jim Hightower
Texas Book of Bays by Jim Blackburn
Birds: a collection of verse and vision by Jim Blackburn, art by Isabelle Chapman

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A daily radio segment called EarthCare is on local radio station 90.1 KPFT. Earth Care airs Monday through Friday at 12:58 pm and includes insights into current environmental problems and their solutions. The program also features tips on how to live in harmony with the local environment. Be sure to tune in! You can also access past segments by clicking here.