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By GABRIEL GRESCHLER | ggreschler@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: December 22, 2021 at 10:16 a.m. | UPDATED: December 27, 2021 at 5:51 p.m. (siliconvalley.com December 22, 2021) In the wake of a study that concluded San Jose’s Reid-Hillview Airport exposes children to high levels of lead, Santa Clara County is doing further testing at the site and the county-owned airport in …
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Dan Haar Dec. 6, 2021 | Updated: Dec. 6, 2021 9:54 p.m. (ctinsider.com Dec 6, 2021) The competition between Tweed New Haven Airport and Sikorsky Memorial Airport for aviation supremacy on the Connecticut shoreline seemed over on May 6, when Tweed engineered a surprise announcement that a private operator would pour $100 million into the airfield and a …
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A. M. Nahlik & M. S. Fennessy Nature Communications volume 7, Article number: 13835 (2016) (nature.com December 13, 2016) Abstract Wetland soils contain some of the highest stores of soil carbon in the biosphere. However, there is little understanding of the quantity and distribution of carbon stored in our remaining wetlands or of the potential effects of human disturbance on these …
David Holzman December 1997, Environmental Health Perspectives In regulating aircraft and airports, severalcompelling interests compete: safety, international commerce, and environmentalquality. Of these, safety issues receive perhaps most of the attention, garnering largeheadlines in the wake of airplane accidents.But the issue of the effect of airports on theenvironment and human health has heatedup in recent years …