Thursday, April 30, 2009

April 2009

April 30, 2009
Carbon monoxide detector law unlikely
Steamboat Pilot - Steamboat Springs , CO
Steamboat Springs — Local officials say a state law passed earlier this year reduces the need to craft Routt County regulations requiring carbon monoxide...
Carbon monoxide scare at KC halfway house
Kansas City Star - MO
Rescue crews responded Wednesday night to a Kansas City halfway house where a carbon monoxide leak made residents ill. Forty-two people were in the building...
Four children suffering carbon monoxide poisoning are airlifted ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids , MI
Four children suffering carbon monoxide poisoning are airlifted to hospital. Police say they were overcome by fumes in car by The Grand Rapids Press...
NH carbon monoxide detector bill headed to gov
Fox44 News - Colchester , Vermont
AP - April 29, 2009 6:15 PM ET CONCORD , NH (AP) - A bill to require carbon monoxide detectors in new homes in New Hampshire is on its way to the governor....
City Council: Police officers honored for life-saving efforts
Crookston Daily Times - Crookston , MN
By Tom Lindo Police Chief Tim Motherway recounts the December carbon monoxide incident to which officers Shane Mendez and Wendy Sandstrom, standing to his...
Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in Welland home
Welland Tribune - Ontario , Canada
WELLAND — Two people were sent to hospital after extremely high levels of carbon monoxide were detected in an Ash Ct. home early Wednesday morning.
April 29, 2009
Columbus school set to reopen Wednesday
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville , NC
Fire officials thought Monday that an electrical problem, possibly wires smoldering inside a wall, caused the odor and elevated levels of carbon monoxide....
EXCLUSIVE: £11m climate change study « Ocean acidification
By Anne-Marin Nisumaa
The five-year investigation will include looking rising levels of carbon monoxide in the ocean as a new report claims the amount of carbon dioxide in the sea has risen at a faster rate than at any time in the last 65 million years....
Ocean acidification - http://oceanacidification.wordpress.com/
Future effects of climate change must be mitigated today, NASA ...
Deseret News - Salt Lake City , UT
Though it would take significant changes from today's standards, Hansen said it is possible to begin the process of reducing the amount of carbon monoxide...
FEMA Adds Masimo Rad-57(R) Pulse CO-Oximeter(TM) to Required ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York , NY
"Early and accurate CO exposure detection is important for successful mitigation and treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning," stated Neil Hampson , MD,...
April 28, 2009
Columbus school evacuated because of high carbon monoxide levels
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville , NC
By Deuce Niven WHITEVILLE — An electrical problem was the apparent source of an odor that sent carbon monoxide levels at Columbus Christian Academy High...
Shower gifts that will keep baby safe
Buffalo News - NY
Less than half of parents thought to install a carbon monoxide detector and only 32 percent set their hot water heater to 120 degrees in order to prevent...
April 27, 2009
Whitman fire chief warns of improperly installed heating systems
Enterprise News - Brockton , MA
Grenno warns that improperly installed systems can produce large amounts of carbon monoxide, an invisible and odorless gas that is “a silent killer,” he...
Carbon monoxide alarms available for health department clients
Petoskey News-Review - Petoskey , MI
Gary McDowell and local businessman Steve Biggs delivered 90 carbon monoxide alarms donated by First Alert to the Health Department of Northwest Michigan to...
Ice rink owners upset over ESPN report
News 10 Now - Syracuse , NY
"If the indicator reads more than 35 part per million, the indicator will start beeping and let you know the carbon monoxide is at a higher point....
Coast Guard encourages safe boating
Carbon monoxide is deadly: Raft-ups, or groups of boats tied together in a protected anchorage, is a fun way to spend the weekend with fellow boaters. Although you should never run an engine, or a generator for that matter, ...
WAVY TV - http://www.wavy.com/
One man killed, one injured, by carbon monoxide exposure
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland , OH
AKRON - One man died and another man was injured Friday morning by a build-up of carbon monoxide in a house they were renovating in the 800 block of Euclid...
Superfresh decides to install new carbon monoxide alarms
Delaware County Daily Times - Primos, PA
By LOIS PUGLIONESI Times Correspondent HAVERFORD — Four interconnected carbon monoxide alarms will be installed at Super Fresh in the Manoa Shopping Center ,...
April 24, 2009
Police suspect carbon monoxide in family's death
Dallas Morning News - Dallas , TX
AP Authorities are investigating the deaths of three people who may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The three were found in a San Antonio home on...
Judge approves grand jury investigation
Aspen Daily News - Aspen , CO
Braudis's office concluded a dislodged piece of PVC pipe carrying exhaust from a driveway snowmelt heater leaked lethal amounts of carbon monoxide — a...
C'ville landlord cited after 11 sent to hospital
The Courier News - Elgin , IL
By CIGI ROSS cross@scn1.com CARPENTERSVILLE -- The landlord of a rental property here has been cited following a carbon monoxide leak in the house that sent..

Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek , CA
The new eco-friendly coaches will reduce carbon dioxide by 13 percent and carbon monoxide by 68 percent per coach when compared to a diesel bus,...
Fort Hood Earns Sustainability Recognition; Award to Highlight ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York , NY
Through a traffic study, the Air Quality Team found that Fort Hood could reduce carbon monoxide emissions by 74.4 million tons, and save 3396000 gallons of...
Immediate repairs needed for schools
Monadnock Ledger Transcript - Peterborough , NH
There were other problems found in Central, including multiple issues in the kitchen where a hand-held carbon monoxide detector displayed a reading of 8...
April 23, 2009
FDIC Opens in Indianapolis
Firehouse.com (subscription) - USA
The goal of the session was to bring to light the damaging effects of cyanide and carbon monoxide, targeting firefighters who, not understanding how toxic...
Power plant faces Clean Air Act lawsuit
Fall River Herald News - MA
Cleveland said the clf's suit contends that gasification will increase the amount of carbon monoxide released by the plant. “We believe this will increase...
Ross Township Man Overcome By Carbon Monoxide
WPXI.com - Pittsburgh , PA
Preliminary indications are that the 59-year-old Wayne Glass was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes at the home on Second Avenue , Ross police Sgt. William...
April 22, 2009
Celebrate our planet today
Daily Aztec - San Diego , CA
Those who normally drive to campus can catch a free ride while drastically reducing their carbon monoxide emissions today. MTS is offering free rides to San...
Eight Springdale Residents Sickened by Carbon Monoxide
WKRC TV Cincinnati - Cincinnati , OH
Eight people are at the hospital after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a Springdale apartment complex this morning. The victims reported having...
April 21, 2009
LEYTON:Firefighter in carbon monoxide detector plea after two die
Guardian Series - UK
By Jonathan Moyes » A FIREFIGHTER has urged people to buy detectors following the death of two people from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning....
Hill gears up for big climate week
Politico - Washington , DC
The hearings and lobbying come on the heels on Friday's EPA announcement that carbon monoxide and other greenhouse gases endanger health and human welfare.
49-year-old Boise woman found dead in running car on rural Oregon ...
IdahoStatesman.com - ID
Mahleur County Sheriff's deputies say it appears Franceen Ikenberry may have died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning after leaving her car running...
Family Survives Carbon Monoxide That Nearly Took Their Lives
Cleveland News - Fox 8 - Cleveland , Ohio
A dangerous carbon monoxide leak inside a home, causes a woman and her children to barely escape with their lives. By the time the Mansfield Fire Department...
Flip Burgers with Mother Nature -- Grill Green This Summer
Anahuac Progress - Anahuac , TX
In addition, charcoal produces more carbon monoxide and particulates than other grilling options. Though gas grills offer one of the quickest ways to...
Discover the Deadly Toxic Twins: Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide
PR Newswire (press release) - New York , NY
To Hell and Back IV: Cyanide takes participants inside the body through advanced 3-D visualizations to reveal how Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide work...
Fear of emissions non-existent in NHC
SCSU University Chronicle - St. Cloud , MN
And of those 28 almost one-third of those rinks were found to have dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide or ultra fine particles....
April 20, 2009
Widow's year of pain since tragic death of partner
LLanelli Star - Wales , UK
THE partner of a Llanelli dad killed by carbon monoxide poisoning at a Cornish hotel has said marking the anniversary of his death would not bring the love...
Grateful girl says she owes life to Fayette County 911, emergency ...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh , PA
At the time, she did not know that carbon monoxide, a deadly gas, was seeping into her home. A recognition ceremony was held Friday at the Fayette Emergency...
Carbon Monoxide Scare Leads to Evacuations
KUTV - Salt Lake City , UT
Dozens of residents are back in their apartments tonight, after a Carbon Monoxide scare in Provo . About 75 people were evacuated from the complex located...
Mansfield family has close call in gas leak
Mansfield News Journal - Mansfield , OH
Firefighters discovered carbon monoxide readings in the house of up to 600 parts per million. Normal readings are 15 to 20 parts per million....
Man Found Dead in Burning Home
WGBA-TV - Green Bay , WI
Police think Sonkin was burning charcoal in kitchen pots near the bathroom and died before the fire even started from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning....
Detector warns of carbon monoxide in west-end home
Sault Star - Sault Ste-Marie , Ontario
A detector warned a west-end resident about high levels of carbon monoxide in his home Friday. Carbon monoxide in the home measured about 600 parts per ...
April 17, 2009
Quick Thinking Saves Uniontown Family From Carbon Monoxide
WPXI.com - Pittsburgh , PA
Police and 911 dispatchers are being called heroes for their quick action that saved a family from their carbon monoxide filled home....
11 sent to hospital after carbon monoxide leak in Carpentersville home
The Courier News - Elgin , IL
CARPENTERSVILLE – Eleven occupants of a home here were taken to two local hospitals because of elevated levels of carbon monoxide in the home at in the 70...
April 16, 2009
Brant MPP wants to draw attention to Carbon Monoxide awareness
Paris Star - Ontario , Canada
Levac is proposing an act to proclaim the first week of December as Carbon Monoxide Awareness week—to bring more attention and education to the devastating...
Carbon monoxide alarm saves local residents
Mirror - Royal Oak , MI
The Farmington Public Safety Department attributes a carbon monoxide detector to saving the life of a Farmington family. About 4:30 am April 4...
Owners to test ice rink air quality
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton , NY
The Soules have contacted Binghamton-based Enviro Testing about checking the air quality in the rink, including the carbon monoxide, nitrous dioxide and...
Mansfield has some ‘green' school buses
Mansfield Today - Mansfield , Connecticut
New filters on the buses reduce the emissions of particulate matter, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons by 90 percent. ---------- The public is invited to a...
Prepare your home for spring
Examiner.com - USA
Test and replace the batteries in the Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Detectors as needed. 8. If you have a crawl space, crawl the outside perimeter to be sure…
April 15, 2009
Eight people sent to hospital after exposure to carbon monoxide
660 News - Calgary , AB , Canada
EMS tell 660News carbon monoxide exposure has sent eight people to hospital, including three women, one man and four children....
Air quality questioned in ice hockey arenas
Examiner.com - USA
Improperly maintained ice-cleaning machines (Zamboni’s) powered by gasoline or natural gas can leak unsafe amounts of carbon monoxide (CO),...
MOI to subsidize 10000 Taiwan families to move water heater
eTaiwan News - Taiwan
To understand the potential threat of carbon monoxide in households, the Ministry of Interior (MOI) requested the Ministry of Education to conduct a survey...
State health commissioner speaks before Trigg audience
Cadiz Record - Cadiz , KY
Of the people that died during the ice storm, in many instances the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning from generators....
Lions give Fire Department a boost
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield , MA
HOLYOKE - The Lions Club has presented Fire Chief David LaFond with a check for $600 toward the purchase of an instrument to measure the carbon monoxide...
Guest column: Carbon monoxide detectors can save your life
The Daily Astorian - Astoria , OR
Carbon monoxide is an invisible, odorless gas produced by the burning of any material containing carbon. Since just about everything we burn for heat or...
Alamosa Trees: Not just a pretty landscape feature
Valley Courier Online - Alamosa , CO
Leaves take in carbon dioxide and other air pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide, process them for tree development and growth,...
FEATURE : Tainan factory promotes ‘green’ design
Taipei Times - Taiwan
Although an air regulation system was installed and would automatically switch on if the carbon monoxide level in the basement exceeded 10 parts per million...
Reducing your carbon footprint
ConnectTriStates.com powered by KHQA - Quincy , IL
And you might be surprised at how much carbon monoxide gas lawn mowers put out into the atmosphere. Friend says one gas lawn mower used for an hour will...
EPA highlights air quality education
Washington Energy Services - Seattle , WA
The improvements were said to range from lower carbon monoxide levels to less mold growth. A total of 43 percent of institutions that held air quality...
Yellow school buses slowly turning green
ABC 4 - Salt Lake City , UT
These natural gas vehicles can reduce exhaust emissions of carbon monoxide, non-methane organic gas, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide....
April 14, 2009
E:60 Must see TV tonight at 7PM on ESPN
Examiner.com - USA
As part of an E:60 report they tested more 33 rinks for air quality and 11 showed higher than normal levels of a combination of Carbon Monoxide,...
Chenango Ice Rink owners dispute ESPN report on air quality
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton , NY
One of those rinks was the Chenango Ice Rink, where Nichols said the carbon monoxide, nitrous dioxide and ultrafine particle levels all registered higher...
Alarm probably saved lives
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg , VA
They said her carbon monoxide alarm was sounding and they had dispatched the fire department. "I honestly figured it was a false alarm," Morley said....
Mother claims daughter died because of pool heater
West Virginia Record - Charleston , WV
The heater came with various labels, but no warning that that the heater would emit carbon monoxide if it wasn't properly ventilated, the complaint says....
Hempstead says boarding house owner faces multiple charges
Newsday - Long Island , NY
The Village of Hempstead is charging that the owner of a home where two adults and a child were sickened with carbon monoxide poisoning last week was...
Carbon monoxide sends two men to hospital
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus , OH
By Jim Woods Two men were taken from an Obetz house to OSU Medical Center tonight to be checked for carbon monoxide poisoning. The Hamilton Township Fire...
April 13, 2009
Morton mandates carbon monoxide detectors
Delaware County Daily Times - Primos, PA
By Barbara Ormsby MORTON — Council recently enacted an ordinance requiring carbon monoxide detectors in every residence and commercial establishment in the...
Carbon Dioxide…in Space?
The Future of Things - USA
…which normally absorb certain wavelengths of light from the planet’s hot glowing interior, showed traces of both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide...
Environmentalists balk at Surry's hen-poop power
News & Observer - Raleigh , NC
The Minnesota plant may emit more ozone-forming nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particles per unit of energy than Duke Energy's controversial Cliffside...
Carbon monoxide poisons 10 at house
Newsday - Long Island , NY
BY BILL MASON | bill.mason@newsday.com Ten people were hospitalized, four in critical condition, after they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Friday caused...
Tragic death gives life to several careers
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs , CO
After returning from the 1999 world junior championships in Canada , Fishman died in his sleep, exposed to carbon monoxide leaking from his furnace into his...
April 10, 2009
Carbon monoxide poisoning can be slow and hard to notice
WCBD - Charleston , SC
He had been plowing hours on end, unknowingly breathing carbon monoxide from a leak in the truck’s exhaust system. “I got a real hard headache,...
Experimentation keeps producing innovations in energy
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita , KS
Coal gas is filthy, and it often contains carbon monoxide. But it was better than using whale-blubber oil for dim lamps -- the common alternative at the...
Blizzard leaves Kivalina residents feeling ‘buried alive’
Arctic Sounder - Anchorage , AK
Mitchell said that their biggest concern was that the wind would push carbon monoxide down exhaust pipes into homes, poisoning residents, or that people...
Government gas detectors?
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Hillsboro , OR
House Bill 3450 (PDF) would prohibit transferring the title to a single-family dwelling or multifamily housing that has a carbon monoxide source (that is...
April 9, 2009
Carbon monoxide sends 8 to hospitals
Chicago Breaking News - Tribune - Chicago, IL
Eight people, four of them children, were taken to area hospitals tonight after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected in a South Side apartment...
April 8, 2009
Lawmakers Urged to Require Carbon Monoxide Detectors
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland , OR
"It is the silent killer," Rittenour said of carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless gas that is the leading cause of accidental poisonings in the United ...
Fire Department obtains a high-tech CO monitor
Weekly Vista - Bella Vista , AR
Douglas Grant/The Weekly Vista Bert Millard uses the Masimo RAD-57 to test his own carbon monoxide level. He was within the safe range....
No fine for Elkay plant
StandardNet - Ogden , Utah
By CARLOS MAYORGA SALT LAKE CITY -- State inspectors have ended an investigation of an Ogden sink-manufacturing plant following a February carbon monoxide...
April 7, 2009
Carbon monoxide: A stealthy killer with no smoke, no odor to detect
Providence Journal - Providence , RI
By Tom Mooney PROVIDENCE — Carbon monoxide is known as the silent killer because the deadly gas emits no odor and people often don’t know they are being...
Delco rescuers honored
6abc.com - Philadelphia , PA
Their strategically placed window fans were not strong enough to pull the odorless, poisonous carbon monoxide fumes out of their enclosed work space....
Montana Students Awarded $7.49 Million for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
By vashton
APRIL 6, 2009 – A group of 18 former Job Corps volunteers will receive $7.49 million in damages for brain injuries they suffered when carbon monoxide leaked into the Anaconda, Montana dormitory in August, 2004. ...
Carbon monoxide detectors: a pretty good idea
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland , OR
There, in ER, blood tests showed that I had carbon monoxide poisoning. Yep, carbon monoxide poisoning. Eventually, we traced it to the house's...
April 6, 2009
Gov't urged to cover cost of visual alarms
Brantford Expositor - Canada
Recent tragedies have turned a spotlight on the general need for carbon monoxide detectors and smoke alarms and the CHS wants to draw attention to the ...
Meals program shares senior safety tips
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City , SD
Make sure smoke and carbon monoxide detectors work. Fires are more prevalent during the winter, and carbon monoxide is a potentially dangerous gas emitted...
Christmas in Action volunteers repair 23 homes
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription) - Spartanburg , SC
"We're pleased to give back to the community," said McAbee, who surveyed the home last week and noticed it had an unsafe level of carbon monoxide coming...
Family Escapes House Fire
WMTV - Madison , WI
A woman, her two children and the family dog escaped without injury after being alerted by fluctuating numbers on a carbon monoxide alarm....
Clearing the air
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines , IA
Also, avoid smoking in the home, Hicklin says, and install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. - Avoid using wood-burning fireplaces or stoves that can...
Firefighters' event to honor Lauren Johnson
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins , CO
By Ashley Keesis-Wood • ashleykeesis@windsorbeacon.com • April 4, 2009 The Lauren Johnson Memorial Pizzas for Carbon Monoxide and Fire Safety project is...
April 3, 2009
Bill to make carbon monoxide detectors mandatory gets approval in ...
The Canadian Press - TORONTO
TORONTO — A proposal to make carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in all Ontario homes has received approval in principle from all parties at the legislature ...
South Bend family recovers from carbon monoxide leak
WSBT-TV - South Bend , IN
(WSBT photo) By WSBT News1 A South Bend family is luck to be alive, following a carbon monoxide leak inside their own home early Thursday morning. ...
April 2, 2009
Tamarac: Three people sickened by carbon monoxide
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale , FL
By Sallie James | South Florida Sun-Sentinel Tamarac - Two women and a man were sickened on Thursday by carbon monoxide after one resident accidentally left...
Eagle adopts new detector, insulation rules
Eagle Valley Enterprise - Eagle, CO
They didn’t smell anything and their home was relatively new, so the Beards just thought they had a faulty carbon monoxide detector....
6 In Pittsburgh Home Sickened By Carbon Monoxide
The Fulton County News - McConnellsburg , PA
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Six people at a home in Pittsburgh have been sickened by carbon monoxide. Emergency crews and utility workers responded to the home about...
Carbon monoxide detector saves life
Wasaga Sun - Wasaga , ON , Canada
It turned out that carbon monoxide was present in the home and was causing a smokey haze. The home was heated by an oil furnace and the chimney was plugged, ...
Chu says FutureGen project has 'merit'
Power Engineering Magazine - Tulsa , OK
Most IGCC plants proposed by utilities to date would gasify coal to generate hydrogen and carbon monoxide and then burn the mixed gases. ...
Carbon monoxide suit settled
Delmarva Now - Salisbury , MD
Yvonne Boughter was vacationing with her husband, Patrick, and their two daughters in June 2006 when carbon monoxide leaking from a disconnected water...
Cause for alarm: CO at fire stations
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis , MA
Cape Cod Times/Paul Blackmore By George Brennan SANDWICH — Carbon monoxide levels...
Fire officials warn of carbon monoxide dangers
YourHub.com - Denver , CO ,
The Boulder Fire Department is encouraging residents to understand the dangers of carbon monoxide, learn to recognize poisoning symptoms and take ...