Staff Blog
What We’ve Found: Stimulus-funded green growth, island-nation president angry, Chesapeake Bay gets a check-up, health care bill has pro-life amendment and APHA meets in Philadelphia
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Pa., expanded its Weatherization Training Center with federal stimulus funds to teach students about the installation of green technology in low-income households.
The president of the Maldives, a collection of islands in the Indian Ocean that is the world's lowest lying country and may be entirely submerged by rising oceans by the end of this century, censured rich countries for doing too little to stem climate change.
Marine scientists were summoned by the Environmental Protection Agency to study the Chesapeake Bay and understand why it remains polluted and unhealthy even after billions of dollars were spent to clean it up.
Though Democrats by and large celebrated the passage of the health care bill in the House of Representatives last weekend, a subgroup within the party vowed to fight an amendment inserted to avoid further delays in its passage: a clause that limits abortion coverage even for women paying for it by themselves.
The American Public Health Association is holding its annual meeting in Philadelphia this year, discussing topics such as H1N1, water safety and public health at the Convention Center.
