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National news - Dec. 4

WASHINGTON
Pollution increases

The amount of U.S. greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, increased last year by 1.4 percent after a decline in 2006, the Energy Department reported Wednesday. The report said carbon dioxide, the leading pollution linked to global warming, rose by 1.3 percent in 2007 as people used more coal, oil and natural gas because of a colder winter and more electricity during a warmer summer. Half of the country's electricity is generated by coal-burning power plants.

Kansas to get lab

The government has recommended a site in Kansas for a $450 million laboratory to study biological threats such as anthrax and foot-and-mouth disease, officials said Wednesday. The Homeland Security Department's choice of Manhattan, in central Kansas, beat out intense competition from sites in Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas.

Bush OKs coin

President George W. Bush has signed legislation to mint a commemorative silver dollar marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Congress, which approves up to two commemorative coins per year, signed off on the coin last month. Bush signed the bill Tuesday. The U.S. Mint is slated to produce 350,000 of the $1 coins in 2014. Proceeds would cover the cost of production and generate an expected $2 million to $3 million to be donated to the United Negro College Fund.

Mukasey reappears

Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared in good health Wednesday in his first news conference since collapsing during a speech Nov. 20. He said he doesn't know what caused his fainting spell. As he neared the end of his address, ''the lights went out,'' he recalled. ''I asked whether people were still in the room.''

INDIANAPOLIS
Soldiers file lawsuit

Sixteen Indiana National Guard soldiers have filed a federal lawsuit against a defense contractor they say knowingly allowed them to be exposed to a toxic chemical in Iraq. The suit filed Wednesday against KBR Inc. in U.S. District Court claims the soldiers were exposed to a carcinogen while protecting an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2003. The lawsuit says some of the Guard members have respiratory system tumors.


Compiled from wire reports.

 

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