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Release Date: 01/05/2012Contact Information: Nahal Mogharabi, mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov, (213-244-1815)

(01/05/12) SAN FRANCISCO – Toxic chemicals managed, treated or released into the environment from facilities operating in Nevada increased in 2010 when compared to 2009, according to the latest data available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The data comes from the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, commonly referred to as TRI. It’s one of the EPA’s largest publicly available databases, providing communities valuable information on more than 650 toxic chemicals that are managed or released by various industries. The chemical information in the inventory is calculated by industrial facilities and reported to the EPA, as required by Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act..
“Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed the law that gave communities the ‘Right-To-Know’ about potential toxic hazards in their area,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “The annual toxics report helps residents and local governments make informed decisions, and by working together with businesses, they can reduce chemical use.”
Total releases include toxic chemicals discharged by facilities to air, water, land, and underground, and the amount transferred off-site for disposal. Pollution controls apply to many of the reported releases. Reporting facilities must comply with environmental standards set by local, state and federal agencies.
Release data alone are not sufficient to determine exposure or to calculate potential risks to human health and the environment. TRI data, in conjunction with other information, such as the toxicity of the chemical, the release medium (e.g., air), and site-specific conditions, may be used in evaluating exposures that may result from releases of toxic chemicals.
Total TRI Releases for Reporting Years 2008 – 2010 (in pounds)

YearAirWaterOn-site LandUnderground InjectionOff-siteTotal

2008 1,555,488 160 196,366,905 01,810,650199,733,204

2009 1,666,516 118 179,544,500 01,602,689182,813,823

2010 1,509,948 1,293,701 472,142,276 01,927,538476,873,463

Data from 2010 in Nevada shows:

· 161% increase overall in total releases from 2009 to 2010 (294 million pounds released)
· Metal Mining comprises 98% of Nevada releases
· Arsenic and arsenic compounds made up 57% of Nevada’s reported releases in 2010
· 31% of total Nevada releases were “surface impoundments” and 61% were “other land disposal” categories.

Annual Toxics Release Inventory reporting began in 1988 after the enactment of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. The 25th anniversary of the act provides information to the public on annual toxic chemical releases reported by certain industrial and federal facilities. The TRI does not include data on toxic emissions from cars and trucks, nor from the majority of non-industrial sources, such as agriculture. In 2000, TRI expanded to include persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals, or PBTs, at ranges from 0.1 grams to 100 pounds. PBT pollutants are toxic chemicals that remain in the environment and food chain, posing risks to human health and ecosystems.

Top 10 Nevada facilities

Facility NameCityCountyTotal Releases (in pounds)

1NEWMONT MINING CORP COPPER CANYON FACILITYBATTLE MOUNTAINLander 208,127,221

2NEWMONT MINING CORP TWIN CREEKS MINEGOLCONDAHumboldt 169,175,460

3BARRICK GOLDSTRIKE MINES INCELKOElko 29,261,541

4CORTEZ GOLD MINESCRESCENT VALLEYLander 24,308,733

5NEWMONT MINING CORP – C ARLIN SOUTH AREACARLINEureka 16,357,404

6RUBY HILL MINEEUREKAEureka 10,291,679

7JERRITT CANYON MINEELKOElko 4,433,257

8US ECOLOGY NEVADA INCBEATTYNye 3,433,319

9SMOKY VALLEY COMMON OPERATIONROUND MOUNTAINNye 1,933,852

10TRONOX LLCHENDERSONClark 1,628,068

TRI Explorer
TRI Explorer is a tool that you can use to see the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data. It allows you to look at data by state, county, or zip code; by chemical; or by industry. It provides maps that you can click on to find TRI facilities, chemicals and industries in a particular area.

National TRI Findings:

The 2010 TRI data show that 3.93 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide, a 16 percent increase from 2009. The increase is mainly due to changes in the metal mining sector, which typically involves large facilities handling large volumes of material. Several other sectors also reported increases in toxic releases in 2010, including the chemical and primary metals industries. Releases from electric utilities decreased between 2009 and 2010. Total air releases decreased 6 percent since 2009, continuing a trend seen over the past several years. Releases to surface water increased 9 percent and releases to land increased 28 percent since 2009, again due primarily to the metal mining sector.

EPA has improved this year’s TRI National Analysis report by adding new information on facility efforts to reduce pollution and by considering whether economic factors could have affected the TRI data. With this report and EPA’s Web-based TRI tools, citizens can access information about the toxic chemical disposals and releases into the air, water, and land that occur locally. Finally, EPA’s first mobile application for accessing TRI data, myRTK, is now available in Spanish, as are expanded Spanish translations of National Analysis documents and Web pages.
Please visit: http://www.epa.gov/tri/myrtk/spanish/index.htm

For more on the TRI program including additional city, county and facility information, please visit the EPA’s Web sites: http://www.epa.gov/tri, http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer and http://www.epa.gov/enviro.

State fact sheets are available at: http://www.epa.gov/region09/toxic/tri/ and http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer/statefactsheet.htm.

For more information on the PBT Chemicals Program, please visit the EPA’s Web site at http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/pbt
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London: Dereck Chisora is as British as a red phone booth, black taxis and those old yellow-and-green-flag parking meters.

How can this be true of someone born in Zimbabwe who did not come to live in London until he was 16? Because he has collected all those items of our national memorabilia — and then some.

Del Boy, as this devotee of Only Fools And Horses nicknames himself, drives a Robin Reliant, "just loves" a frame hung on his wall which contains original £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes and is in the market for a traditional pillar box.

As a curator of all things historic and symbolic of his adoptive country, Chisora is also about to buy an old London double-decker bus.

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Story By: by NPR Staff

It’s natural for Leonard Cohen to think a lot about mortality near the end of his life, but Ron Sexsmith says Cohen has never sung about “frivolous things.”

Who’d have thought a 77-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter would be hovering near the top of the pop charts? Leonard Cohen was a poet and fiction writer who, in the 1960s, wrote songs like “Suzanne,” “So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on a Wire.” His unmistakable voice lulls you into a hypnotic spell on his new album, so we asked two fellow singers and Cohen fans to talk about what they hear on Old Ideas: Conor Oberst, best known for his band Bright Eyes, and Ron Sexsmith.

“I picked ‘Crazy to Love You,’ ” Oberst says of one of his favorite songs from the album. “To me, it was one of the more immediate songs that struck me on the album. It’s so sparse. It’s just guitar and vocal. It reminded me of some of his older material. It’s a very simple but powerful melody. The thing about this song and all his music is the way it expresses the human condition and the duality of our perversions and our flesh, and also our higher self — the thing that’s interested in reasoning and philosophy and language and how those things coexist inside of all of us. That’s a major theme through all his music.”

The Voice

Then there’s that voice, which feels like it’s coming from inside your head.

“It’s getting lower and lower over the years. It’s a really powerful instrument,” Oberst says in an interview with All Things Considered host Melissa Block. “I mean, it’s strange with his music. I don’t necessarily listen to it from the standpoint of the production value or even the performance, necessarily. It’s his ideas that make him so amazing, and that’s what I’m attracted to.”

Speaking of instruments, Cohen’s guitar in “Crazy to Love You” is just a little bit out of tune, but Oberst says he’s glad that wasn’t fixed, “especially in this day and age where, you know, twist a knob and all that goes away. It’s nice that they left the human side.”

Oberst says he also likes the closing track on Old Ideas, “Different Sides.”

“It’s a very cool song,” Oberst says. “His delivery is so, you know, kind of pitch perfect. You just picture him in his little fedora in the smoky alley or whatever and, obviously, the lyrics are phenomenal. But the chorus is also pretty fantastic. It’s, ‘You want to change the way I make love / I want to leave it alone.’ “

It’s hard for Oberst to pick just a few favorites from Old Ideas, but he adds, “There are probably a few people that are as good as him, but there’s nobody better for my sensibilities.”

A Fellow Canadian Pays Tribute

Ron Sexsmith is a songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. When he first heard Cohen around the age of 15 of 16, Sexsmith says, he didn’t understand it — “how you could have a career and not be a great singer or whatever.”

“But when I was 19 or 20, I went back to it. Something compelled me to check him out again, and then it was like a bolt of lightning,” Sexsmith says. “I just fell in love with everything that he’s done. [He's] definitely one of the biggest influences on me — up with all of my other favorites, for sure.”

A New Twist On A Leonard Cohen Classic

“The first thing that comes to mind is just how amazing it is that [the album] exists at all, you know?” Sexsmith says. “I mean, there was that period where he didn’t make any records for a long time, and as a fan of Leonard Cohen, you’re always thinking every record could be his last or something these days. So just the fact that there’s a new Leonard album out is just remarkable for me.”

Old Ideas is stripped down, but Cohen has had his brush with synthesizers and lush production.

“I’ve always been really good at sort of making a bee line through the production straight to the songs, but, you know, this album is a nice marriage of — you know, because he’s playing guitar a bit more,” Sexsmith says. “I always feel that he sings better when he plays the guitar.

“If you’ve been a fan as long as I have, there’s a trust that’s been built up over time. It becomes this thing where you’re getting a phone call from someone you haven’t heard [from] in a long time. You’re getting his perspective and what he’s been up to. It’s just this intimate thing that you can’t get from anybody else.”

‘The Present’s Not So Pleasant’

It’s natural for Cohen to think a lot about mortality near the end of his life, but Sexsmith says Cohen has never sung about “frivolous things.”

“The very first time I saw Leonard in concert was in 1985, and I think he must have been in his early 50s. I remember thinking, ‘Wow, that’s just so old. How can he carry on?’ Sexsmith says, laughing. “I mean, I’m going to be 50 in a couple years now, you know? The thing with Leonard, he’s not singing about frivolous things. He never has, you know? It’s just great to have someone like him in this world that is very focused on the juvenile sort of things — to have someone that’s writing from that place. What’s that line in ‘The Darkness’? ‘I have no future / The present’s not so pleasant.’ You’re not going to get that from Justin Bieber.

“He’s always very conversational, too,” Sexsmith says. “Obviously, he’s a poet, but you never get the condescending thing or the high-brow feeling. It’s very simple language. The words he uses — they penetrate because they’re very simple, and you never have to scratch your head and wonder what he’s singing about.”

“You know, when you’re listening to a Leonard record, it’s like all the great songwriters. You’re in the Leonard zone, you know? You’re going to hear the female singers, you’re going to hear the old-world instruments and all that kind of stuff. It’s all those things that you hope for when you get a new Leonard record.”

People either love or hate Leonard Cohen’s voice. There doesn’t seem to be much middle ground.

“Some people can’t get past the singing,” Sexsmith says. “I’ve always loved his voice, and some people will never comprehend it, because it is such an intimate thing.”

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Dubai: You’d think former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki would be disappointed after being displaced from the top following her 67-week reign. Or then again, maybe not.

Critics have been on her case throughout her stay on top, for not having won a Grand Slam title and the defending Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship champion says that she can now play more freely, having been relieved of that crown.

"It’s just nice that actually I don’t get the question every press conference, You’re No. 1 but haven’t won a Grand Slam. So at least I get that off my back and I can actually just play and people don’t get disappointed if I lose a finals or semi-finals, which, you know, would be a disaster before.

"Now someone else can have that, and I can just play," she said.

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Dubai: Novak Djokovic was the top seed in 2009 and he began his dominance of the event with the first of his three consecutive titles, beating David Ferrer 7-5, 6-3 in the final.

Andy Murray was seeded second, but he was forced to default his quarter-final match against Richard Gasquet due to a virus which left him with a sore throat and headache. Gasquet then lost to Ferrer in the semis.

Djokovic was stretched to three sets in the first round by Jan Hernych and by Gilles Simon in the semi-finals. Roger Federer had to withdraw before the tournament began because of a back injury.

In the men’s doubles, Rik de Voest and Dmitry Tursunov beat Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 in the final.

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Story By: by Richard Knox

When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he made universal health care law. But the 2006 law didn’t do anything about controlling costs, which were already among the nation’s highest. So now the conversation has turned to cost control, and some very interesting things are beginning to happen.

Learn how to catch a grouper on Key West fishing charters

The very best spot to fish for grouper are the Florida Keys, particularly Key West, the Bahamas and down by way of the Caribbean Islands. Grouper are deemed bottom fish. They like to remain closer to the bottom and close to rocks and solid structures so they are able to hide Key West fishing or escape into them. You can come across grouper in water as shallow as 10′ but they nevertheless like to remain closer to the bottom. Ship wrecks are an awesome spot to locate grouper. Grouper are a white meat fish and they are especially tasty to eat.

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The general rule with grouper is rather intuitive. Smaller grouper live in shallow water and take smaller bait. You can fish for grouper in water as shallow as 10′. Bigger grouper for example the tremendous Warsaw grouper are in deeper water, as deep as many hundred feet deep. Ship wrecks are exceptional for deep grouper fishing.

Philadelphia: It’s like the promised land for Bruce Springsteen fans at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

The Boss’ guitars, handwritten lyrics, personal scrapbooks and 1960 Corvette are among 150 items in the exhibit "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen."

It opens Friday and runs through September 3. The Philadelphia showing is the only scheduled stop.

The show was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland since April 2009 but the National Constitution Center exhibit has new items and a deeper historical focus.

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