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 Stories About: Arnold Schwarzenegger AND California AND news AND toxics
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Carrion Baggage
California condor still endangered by lead bullets |
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12 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 3:52 PM on 12 Oct 2007 California condors came to the brink of extinction in the 1980s, largely from eating game felled by toxic lead bullets. A recovery effort has proved successful, but attempts to bring condors back into the wild have been frustrated by the birds' continuing poisoned-carrion habit. More than one-third of condors released into the wild in California over the past two decades have died; last year, 14 ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, endangered species, legislation, news, politics, state politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Does Silicone Count?
California will measure chemical levels in people's bodies under new law |
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03 Oct 2006 |
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| Does Silicone Count? California will measure chemical levels in people's bodies under new law The first state to measure how residents absorb chemicals from everyday products will be, of course, Arkansas. Ha ha -- you wish, Arkansans. No, it'll be California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed a "biomonitoring" bill Friday that calls on state health officers to collect voluntarily submitted sam ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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