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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina s congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Myorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

NY Ozone Alert Days: EPA says Expect More

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Friday, July 18, 2008   

New York, NY — More "Ozone Alert Days" and heat waves are in store for New York, according to a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It warns that the Northeast is one area of the country that will see the greatest number of illnesses and deaths due to increases in summer temperatures.

Dr. George Benjamin, executive director the American Public Health Association, says higher ozone levels are just one of the negative impacts for which New Yorkers now have to prepare, due to global warming.

"When we have these extreme weather events, it gets very hot, which puts people at risk. We have these violent storms, and that puts people at risk."

Better late than never, says Jackson Morris, with Environmental Advocates of New York. He is encouraged that scientists at the EPA are coming to grips with climate change. The problem, he says, is that the "policy side" of the agency doesn't appear to be listening.

"It's discouraging to see the disconnect within the EPA - having this very good report in one hand, showing the impacts of climate change, and then on the other hand, Steven Johnson - the administrator of the EPA - is declaring that the Bush administration will take no action to do anything about the impacts of climate change."

The EPA assessment is one of a series of reports from a variety of government agencies, all mandated by Congress to help coordinate the federal response to climate change. Congress will now review the reports.

Excerpts of the report can be viewed online, at epaclimatereport.com. The full report, "Analyses of the Effects of Global Climate Change on Human Health, Settlements and Welfare," is also online, at www.climatescience.gov.



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