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The article discusses concerns that implementing widespread use of body cameras amongst police officers in the United States may not prevent police violence or clarify whether an officers' response is appropriate. Topics addressed include a decision not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the killing of unarmed African American Eric Garner despite video footage of the killing, as well as plans for police reform in New York City.

Reports on efforts to remove indoor and outdoor sources of lead in New York City. Presence of lead in the city's soil, streets and steel support structures for the elevated subway; Total weight of lead paint removed from various sites since 2000; Debate on lead abatement law in the city council; Health standards for lead in the environment; Results of lead sampling initiatives.

DENVER -- Horn-honking, as a statement of frustration or joy or who knows what behind the wheel, has been part of the American fabric since the first Ah-OO-gah from the first Model A. But Occupy Wall Street is giving it a new twist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Protesters in Denver and Nashville regrouped on Sunday, a day after dozens of arrests at demonstrations inspired by Occupy Wall Street in both cities. The demonstrators in Denver held a peace vigil in the evening. It followed a melee on Saturday night that was one of the most intense clashes with the police since the protest groups began gathering in a downtown park more than a month ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BOULDER, Colo. -- Many Americans these days, from the huddled masses of Occupy Wall Street to the coifed confines of the presidential campaign, are talking about the future of capitalism. Here, that debate is focused on electricity, specifically whether this city should, in Tuesday's election, sever its relationship with a corporate utility and move toward a home-ruled, municipally owned one that would be environmentally greener and locally accountable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Whatever the original impulse behind ''Occupy Wall Street,'' or the speculation of what the movement might become, this much is true: The groups of protesters, now camping or hanging out in many American cities, and the police agencies that have responsibility for public safety and order, are both shifting into new postures of action and response. Whether that evolving chemistry will push things toward more confrontation remains unclear. But the combination -- new participants, new police tactics -- is clearly opening an uncertain chapter in a story that from its inception has embraced the notion of unplanned, unscripted civil action. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DENVER -- Could airport security gardens be the wave of the future? (''Please have photo ID and boarding pass ready and walk past the rhododenrons.'') How about a defensive line of bomb-sniffing tulips in Central Park in New York, or at the local shopping mall's indoor waterfall, or lining the streets of Baghdad? Researchers at Colorado State University said Wednesday that they had created the platform for just such a plant-kingdom early warning system: plants that subtly change color when exposed to minute amounts of TNT in the air. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the controversy concerning University of Colorado Professor Ward L. Churchill's essay about the September 11 attacks of the World Trade Center in New York City. Debate about freedom of speech; Solemnity of the September 11 terrorist attack; Consideration of the supposed liberal bias of the academia.

Reports on the research of meteorologists studying how global warming and climate change over the coming century will affect people and their health differently depending on where they live. Details of the research done by the New York Climate and Health Project; Impact of various factors of urban and suburban communities surrounding New York City; Ability of cities to trap radiant energy and compound the complications and costs of the summer season; Future of smog; Response of environmentalists; Comments from researchers.

Reports on the efforts of Rabbi Lipa Sofer of Williamsburg, New York to educate the Hasidic community of the dangers of a wood floor resurfacing product. Use of the product which has become a part of the culture of the community; Contention of Sofer that the product is making people sick; The Rabbi as a noodge who is willing to draw attention to his cause; Skepticism of the health professionals over his claims; Pattern of high rates of childhood asthma in Williamsburg; Health Department tests in the community; Difficulty in getting safety messages to this particular group.

Describes the concept of community supported agriculture and the growth of vegetable buying clubs. Efforts to foster direct connections between food producers and consumers; Numbers of participants in New York area, and in other parts of the United States; Effects on farmers and consumers who participate in the program; Description of the work of farmers Mike and Cheryl Rogowski; Role of the Glynwood Center, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.; Appeal of farming life.

Reports on a water main break in Washington Heights in New York City. Description of the flooding; Details of the water main break, including time and location; Effects the flooding is having on residents and local businesses; Prevention methods being set up to control the flooding.

Reports on the consideration of a new lead hazard prevention law by New York City. Finding that those with the most elevated lead levels are born outside the United States; Difficulty in finding the sources of lead; Question of which came first, the lead or the people infected with it; Lead reductions as one of the environmental success stories; Scientific suggestion that lead levels may also be raised by diet; Lead paint which is still the number one cause of lead poisoning; Culminative nature of exposure.

Reports on the investigation by New York City officials at the long-term physical and mental health effects of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Efforts of the registry organizers to motivate people to participate; New York City's commissioner of health and metal hygiene, Dr, Thomas R. Frieden, who comments on the need for 200,000 volunteers who were exposed to the flames, dust, gasses and smoke; How the registry works; Where to find more information on the investigation.

Comments on environmentalism and the Arrow Reuse Center for Building Materials in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York City. Discussion of the idea of urban ecology in recycling building materials; Background on Nicole Tai who founded the nonprofit company; Effort of Spencer Evans to introduce the reuse concept to the Broadway theater market; Views of Tai and Evans on conservation of resources; Description of building insulation made of blue denim which was made by Bonded Logic, a company in Arizona, and distributed by a Bronx company, ECO New York; Indication that Urban Ore in Berkeley, California is a profitable business.

Discusses the impact of artificial lighting in New York City on Long Island Sound. Experience of pharmacist and fly fisherman, George Altieri, with the changing environment; Discussion of conditions for the "worm hatch" that are supposed to lure striped bass to the area; Idea that light may alter the feeding patterns of plankton and complicate the ecological cycle of the Sound; Background on Altieri and his study of the Sound. INSET: Human Nature.

Reports that New York Governor George E. Pataki approved legislation authorizing a $1.3 billion water-filtration plant in the Bronx. The engineering of the plant which will require deep excavation into bedrock; Construction which is slated to begin in 2005; Background on negotiations over the project; Promise to include extensive new protection of watershed lands.

Focuses on the division of the Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York by major highways. Debate over efforts by the city to build a huge water-treatment plant in the park's southeast corner; How city officials say that Bronx parks will blossom if plans for the Van Cortlandt plant go forward as planned.

Reports on the endorsement by the conservation groups Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense and the New York League of Conservation Voters on the efforts of New York City to build a plant that will filter part of the state's drinking water supply.

Discusses the efforts to improve recycling in New York City.

Reports that federal investigators say a commercial tenant and New York City share responsibility for an explosion in an apartment. Number of people who were injured by the explosion; Chemicals that were stored in the basement by the tenant; Poor monitoring of the chemical inventory by the city; Details of the explosion; Fear of people in New York City because of terrorist attacks.

States that Dr. Kenneth I. Berns, chief executive of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, is leaving the position. Indication that 500 health care workers will be laid off; Background on Berns; The reputation of the hospital; Problems at the teaching hospital, including financial and administrative; Discussion of the hospital's downsizing and reorganization.

Reports on the search for land of the New York City Sanitation Department to establish the city's own landfill.

Reports on the design by Studio Daniel Libeskind for the World Trade Center site, a memorial park below street level in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Reports the impact of interviews with September 11 victims in New York City on the interviewers, who were working for Columbia University's 9/11 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project. How the stories of horror, heroism, and spiritual transcendence have caused symptoms of post-traumatic stress in some interviewers and close bonds with the victims for others; Details of stories about the terrorist attacks.

Focuses on Glenn H. Abatemarco, who went into self-imposed medical exile in Arizona after the World Trade Center attack in New York City on September 11, 2001. Background on his respiratory problems and asthma; Discussion of the effect of the alkaline dust and smoke from ground zero on people who live in Lower Manhattan; View that Abatemarco does not fit the pattern for the lung irritation known as World Trade Center Cough because he lives in Brooklyn and had not intense or chronic exposure to the dust from the collapse of the towers.

Focuses on operations at Hugo Neu Corp., a family-owned scrap metal company that successfully bid on a New York City Sanitation Department contract to resume part of its recycling program. Details of rejected offers from other companies; Significance of their bid, which would pay the city rather than charge it for its recyclables; Competition between Hugo Neu and Waste Management.

Discusses the efforts of federal health officials in New York City to investigate the cases of people who have been exposed to ash and dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center. Evaluation of the long-term pulmonary effects associated with exposure; Patterns of illness and recovery; Plight of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to assist in the proceedings; Costs of the study.

Reports that scientists have found nearly every single ship that ever foundered in the Hudson River, but they will not disclose the location of the ships. Project that was financed by New York State to map the river's bottom for habitat and pollution-abatement studies; Use of sonar maps; Reasons that state officials will not disclose the locations of ships; Images that provide a record of collision and storm-tossed fates.

Looks at the garbage being thrown out by residents of New York City in previous generations. Research of Donald C. Walsh, an adjunct professor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, suggesting people in the 1940s threw out the most garbage; How Walsh found detailed records in the New York City Archives of garbage disposal and contents; History of recycling in New York City.

Reports that New York City lifted the restrictions on water use. How the city imposed emergency drought declaration when falling reservoirs indicated potential crisis; Reasons for lifting the ban including water consumption decrease and drenching rains that nudged reservoirs to normal capacity levels; Opinion of meteorologists that the Eastern Seaboard has been locked in a drought cycle.

Reports that the vast majority of apartments in Lower Manhattan, New York City have been tested and cleared from asbestos contamination from World Trade Center dust.

Discusses the construction of the 20 River Terrace apartment building in New York City. Aspects of the building that are environmentally correct, including solar panels and air-purification; Delay in construction due to the clean-up of the World Trade Center site; Debates over what to rebuild at the World Trade Center site; Environmental awareness by New York residents and support for alternative fuels; Remarks about the construction of a sustainable building in an area that was a target of terrorism; Expected completion.

Focuses on the health implications of the chronic smog during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City.

Reports that only about a quarter of the New York City residents eligible to have their apartments tested and cleaned to remove leftover World Trade Center dust have registered.

Focuses on the families of victims of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, who say what defines them most is their sense of separation from other Americans. Question of what category of American experience they fit into; How their lives have been transformed; Perceptions and myths with which they feel burdened; Comments of family members who were interviewed; Role of technology; The rise of women in the September 11 community; Political activism.

Focuses on the cleaning, environmental testing and decontamination of apartments in the area of downtown New York City affected by the ash and dust of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Plans of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin the cleanup; Attitudes of residents, some of whom do not welcome the EPA's efforts; Examples of one group of tenants from 310 Greenwich Street, a few blocks from the World Trade Center.

Discusses the evaluation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of the land management system used in New York City to maintain the purity of its drinking water.

Reports on the condition of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York City.

Reports on the medical and scientific investigations into the effects of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. Efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to monitor dust, water and air pollution in Lower Manhattan to detect asbestos, lead and byproducts of combustion; Reason that data had to be reassessed by the University of California at Davis research team; Outlook for further research at Ground Zero.

Reports on the plan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand its program on the cleanup of apartments affected by the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will lead an effort to clean up and test apartments in Lower Manhattan, New York. How they were fouled by dust and ash from the destruction of the World Trade Center; Details of the plan, which is a policy reversal for the EPA; Questions about what the policy will mean in practice; Cost estimates; Issue of the state of indoor air quality; Concerns of public health experts that the policy may be too late; Mention of the exposure of ground zero workers.

Reports on the increased risk of asbestos-related disease among residents of Lower Manhattan in New York City as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center in September 2001.

Announces that the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City combines biology, population science and climate research.

Reports on the arguments of New York City Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty in support of the proposed changes in the recycling and garbage collection programs of the department.

Discusses the possibility that New York City is considering using incineration to dispose of some or all of the city's daily garbage. How other alternatives, such as the use of landfills, are becoming harder to come by; Expectation for costs to export trash to increase; Opposition to incineration by environmentalists; Changes in the incineration industry.

Describes a folk music concert at the Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City, to raise money for a ground zero relief fund. Themes of the songs, which focused on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; Music of David Heitler-Klevans, Kathleen Pemble, and others; Role of organizer Valerie Ghent; How songwriters expressed the complexity of the losses; The song 'Tomorrow,' by New York firefighter Hughie Lynch.

Discusses the change of climate in New York City during winter.

Focuses on a trash disposal crisis in New York City. Political, logistical and financial reasons that a plan to rid the city of garbage may not come to fruition; Reaction of New Yorkers to garbage disposal-related issues; Cessation of recycling efforts because of costs of operation.