As the number of dead or stranded live seals washing up along the coast from northern Massachusetts to southern Maine continues to increase dramatically, marine mammal experts are considering influenza or environmental pollution as potential explanations.
Construction crews on a controversial Fayette County, West Virginia, sewer project will not move suspected PCB-contaminated soil out of Minden, Oak Hill City Manager Bill Hannabass said.
Sen. Joe Manchin is urging officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide resources to Minden, a Fayette County town that is contaminated by the industrial chemical PCB and where residents report high cancer rates.
Once again the health of Inuit appears to be under threat from something that people in the North can't see and didn't cause, but which is a menace that's likely to intensify as the Arctic warms.
