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The Doe Run Company has been operating a giant lead smelter in Herculaneum for decades. For just as long, elevated lead levels have been found in people, properties and roads around it.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Missouri Department…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seems poised to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and possibly also from vehicles. New EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asked her staff last week to prepare a document that clears the way for new rules…
Steven Chu
On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama named Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, as his choice to lead the Department of Energy. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between Mr. Chu and the man he probably…
A view of Doe Run Company's Herculaneum smelter, 2003 file photo
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week drastically cut the amount of lead permitted in the air around lead smelters and mines. That’s good news for Missouri and for Jefferson County…
A computer can be a lifeline. It can be a tool to increase productivity, educate the world and bring people closer. And increasingly, it also has become a source of contamination in the developing world.
Like cell phones and other consumer…
The problem with scientists is that they’re prejudiced. They believe in objective, verifiable reality. They’re biased toward facts.
Politicians have been bothered by this for years. But few of them have done as much about it as the administration of President…
