This is a new concept I had, so let's give it a go. Maybe I'll do this weekly if my fellow environmentalists here think it is important to keep some of these stories in the spotlight.
Our lead story:
California county considers toxic waste dump expansion
Officials overseeing a tiny farming community in central California are expected to make a decision Tuesday on the proposed expansion of the largest toxic waste dump in the West amid growing concerns about a spike in the town's number of birth defects...
Of 20 children known born in Kettleman City between September 2007 and November 2008, five had a cleft in their palate or lips, according to a health survey by activists. Three of those children have since died. Statewide, clefts of the lip or palate routinely occur in fewer than one in 800 births, according to California health statistics.