There really has been too much news to keep up with recently including:

the transit strike in New York

the illegal spying on people within the United States by the National Security Agency as ordered by the President

the 11th hour adding of a provision that would allow corporations to drill for oil in Anwar, Alaska to the defense budget in the House and the Senate.

But Today the BBC reports that there has been another toxic spill into a river in China. This time the chemical is cadmium among others. This is also significant because it is cadmium that the Federal EPA's proposed rollback on reporting rules would eliminate from reporting in Illinois.