Massachusetts Toxics Agency Axed From Budget
The state budget crisis has caused the Massachusetts legislature to eliminate all funding for the state's Toxics Use Reduction Institute.
Source: Boston Globe, 07/03/2009
Chemicals
"Concerns Over Bisphenol A Continue To Grow"
Heart arrhythmias in females and permanent, deleterious modifications of a gene that plays a pivotal role in reproduction are two new problems being linked to bisphenol A. New findings about the toxicity of this chemical and data suggest human exposures may be higher than U.S. regulatory agencies have assumed.
Source: Science News, 07/03/2009
"EPA Ready To Settle Bay Area Pesticide Suit"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that could result in scrutiny of how dozens of dangerous pesticides affect threatened and endangered species living around San Francisco Bay."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/02/2009
Rockefeller Introduces Bill To Outlaw Bayer Chem-Secrecy Ruse
Rockefeller's bill keeps FOIA exemptions for real security information, but forbids using the "sensitive security information" stamp.
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Bills Seek Disclosure of "Fracking" Chemicals That May Threaten Drinking Wells
Proposed legislation would repeal a provision allowing secrecy over chemicals injected underground during high-tech gas drilling — such as benzene and toluene, which are known to be toxic.
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EPA Relents, Releases List of 44 High-Hazard Coal-Ash Ponds
FOIA requests and Congressional pressure got the Obama administration to reverse its decision to withhold key information about dangers to communities from coal-ash ponds operated by electric utilities.
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"Poisoned Patriots"
"From 1957 to 1987, hundreds of thousands of unprepared men, women and children who lived on or near Camp Lejeune, N.C., the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast, were the unwitting victims of a decades-long water contamination disaster that is still claiming lives."
Source: NRNS, 07/01/2009
North American Toxics Data Released
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, which is a joint effort of Canada, the US, and Mexico, released on June 10, 2009, its annual report tracking and comparing toxic emissions.
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EPA To Announce Proposed NO2 Standard
After several years of preparatory work, EPA is expected to announce by June 26, 2009, its proposed primary standard for one of the six "criteria" air pollutants, nitrogen dioxide.
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"Air Has Elevated Cancer Risk in 600 Neighborhoods"
"People living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: AP, 06/24/2009
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