Monday, April 18, 2011

April 18, 2011

“A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.”
E. O. Wilson, 1929

Family Treated For Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 
WCVB-TV
BOSTON -- An Eastham family has been hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Cape Cod Times. Firefighters were called to 80 Blue Heron Way at about 6:18 am, where they found four people, including a 13-year-old boy, suffering from ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning victims released from hospital 
Nantucket Island Inquirer By Jason Graziadei
Most of the victims poisoned by carbon monoxide at a Macys Lane home on Saturday have been released from hospitals on Nantucket and in Boston, and are recovering. Nantucket Cottage Hospital spokesman Bill Ferrall ...

Groups gather support for cleaner air 
The News Record  The petition is urging the EPA to tighten the standards of unhealthy levels of smog, reduce carbon monoxide, mercury, acid gases and safer handling of coal ash. "Now we have a great opportunity to petition Obama," said Marites Velasquez, Student PIRGs ...

Boating Safety Everywhere  
Mum feared boys would die in arms 
Herald Sun
A MOTHER feared her two sons would die in her arms after they were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes during a boat trip. The parents performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the boys, who became sick after one of the boat's engines failed, ...

Carbon monoxide death case delayed 
Inside Housing
A plea hearing in the case of a young woman who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a shared ownership flat has been delayed. Malden Plumbing and Heating, of Bridge Parade, Croydon, was due to enter a plea in the case of Elouise Littlewood and Simon ...