"Feds Probe Florida Handling Of Pesticide Case" [1]
"Federal regulators are looking into whether Florida failed to properly investigate if farmworkers sickened in a crop-dusting accident were told not to report it to authorities."
"Federal regulators are looking into whether Florida failed to properly investigate if farmworkers sickened in a crop-dusting accident were told not to report it to authorities."
"Eight years after a mercaptan spill in Eight Mile, its mostly black and working class residents still suffer from respiratory issues, rashes and headaches."
SEJ’s WatchDog Project director Joseph A. Davis analyzes local and regional media's role in reporting — or not — the Flint water debacle.
"HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — More than six weeks after declaring an environmental emergency in this upstate village, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made his first visit here on Sunday, announcing that a new filter system had successfully cleared a toxic chemical known as PFOA from the municipal water supply."
"Levels of hazardous flame retardants in most Great Lakes fish are declining – or at least researchers thought they were. But a new study shows that this isn’t the case for Lake Erie smallmouth bass, an important game fish. And the contaminated fish threatens the health of some of those who eat them."
"NEWARK — Elevated levels of lead caused officials in New Jersey’s largest school district on Wednesday to shut off water fountains at 30 school buildings until more tests could be conducted, officials said."
"Four EU states force delay of a vote to renew the licence for glyphosate, which has been found to be ‘probably carcinogenic’"
"Using cosmetics and personal care products that don’t contain certain hormone-disrupting ingredients for only three days, women can significantly reduce their exposure to these chemicals, according to a study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives."
Some chemicals that are common in commercial products and processes are known to find their way into the environment and seriously (even fatally) harm human health. Yet current U.S. law makes it hard for EPA to keep companies from using them. Sometimes the chemicals used to replace them are just as bad, but the law does not even require those to be tested. A vast regime of secrecy based on unchallenged claims of "confidential business information" makes the danger to public health worse. Often, not even the EPA employees responsible for protecting people can access information about the toxic chemicals. The chemical reform bills now pending in Congress won't fix the problem.
Scientist Jonathan Lundgren (left), who has been researching the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on Monarch butterflies, filed a whistleblower complaint and lost. And, Lundgren claimed his supervisors at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service told him not to talk to news media and punished him when he did.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-probe-florida-handling-pesticide-case
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[7] http://www.orovillemr.com/business/20160316/apnewsbreak-feds-probe-florida-handling-of-pesticide-case
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/tale-two-leaks-fixed-california-ignored-alabama
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[10] http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16032016/mercaptans-eight-mile
[11] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal-sp-2016/will-journalists-heed-lessons-flint
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/inside-story
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pollutant-removed-water-hoosick-falls-ny-cuomo-says
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
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[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/flame-retardants-lake-erie-smallmouth-bass-threaten-consumers
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries
[22] http://greatlakesecho.org/2016/03/10/increasing-levels-of-flame-retardants-in-smallmouth-bass-threaten-lake-erie-fish-consumers/
[23] https://www.sej.org/headlines/elevated-lead-levels-found-newark-schools%E2%80%99-drinking-water
[24] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/nyregion/elevated-lead-levels-found-in-newark-schools-drinking-water.html
[25] https://www.sej.org/headlines/vote-controversial-weedkillers-european-licence-postponed
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/europe
[28] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/08/eu-vote-on-controversial-weedkiller-licence-postponed-glyphosate
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[31] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
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[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology
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[38] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet
[39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife
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