"Marathon Refinery Fire Illustrates How Industry Goes Quiet During a Crisis"
"Recent industrial disaster at Louisiana’s Marathon refinery shows how difficult it is to get information during dangerous events."
Source: DeSmog, 09/06/2023
Chemicals
Shuttered EPA Probe Could’ve Brought 'Meaningful Reform' In Cancer Alley
"As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental advocates and residents of Louisiana’s chemical corridor have spent decades calling for change."
Source: WWNO, 09/05/2023
"3M's $10.3 Billion PFAS Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval"
"3M on Tuesday secured preliminary approval for a $10.3 billion deal resolving claims by U.S. public water providers that the company polluted drinking water with toxic chemicals, less than a day after a group of 22 U.S. states and territories dropped their objections to the deal."
Source: Reuters, 08/30/2023
How Industry Is Fighting Stricter Controls For Manganese In Drinking Water
"High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a battle with the EPA."
Source: Grist, 08/30/2023
Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time
A decade’s worth of government pesticide data — only available before through FOIA — has been made newly available. And, explains the latest Reporter’s Toolbox, it can lead to revealing environmental, public health and environmental justice stories. More on how the data came to be compiled and advice on using it smartly, along with some caveats.
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Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation
What brought together two teams of student reporters, half a dozen states and 1,000 miles apart? For one, the high environmental cost of chemical fertilizer. For another, a pair of dedicated journalism teachers. Cynthia Barnett and Sara Shipley Hiles share how they took the project from daydream to reality, brought students into the field and got pickup from numerous news outlets, in the latest EJ Academy.
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New Flame Retardants Found In Breast Milk Years After Others Were Banned
"In the early 2000s, researchers tested breast milk samples from U.S. mothers and found high levels of toxic compounds used as a common flame retardant in household items."
Source: NPR, 08/25/2023
Painful Process Underway of Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water
Long-growing concern over dangerous “forever” chemicals has drawn the attention of federal and state policymakers, local communities and the utilities that provide their drinking water. But little about regulating PFAS will be quick or easy, making it a major environmental and public health story for years to come. Issue Backgrounder unfolds the regulatory moves, the politics and the larger implications of PFAS policy.
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Drinking Water Of Millions Of Americans Contaminated With PFAS Chemicals
"Drinking water consumed by millions of Americans from hundreds of communities spread across the United States is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic chemicals, according to testing data released on Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."
Source: Guardian, 08/18/2023
"One Family’s Toxic Train Wreck Ordeal: Illness, Exile and Debt"
"The Albright family left town after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near their Ohio home. Now, they are back, facing personal, medical and financial crises in a newly divided community."
Source: NYTimes, 08/17/2023
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