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"What You Need to Know About Artificial Food Coloring Phase-Outs" [1]

"As Mars joins the growing group of multinational food companies pledging to phase out artificial food coloring, its use remains widespread. Here’s why it matters."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Food [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Civil Eats [7], 02/16/2016
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Organic Diet Cuts Pesticide Exposure In Children, Berkeley Study Finds [8]

"A new scientific study [documents] that organic food can substantially lower pesticide exposure in children from low-income families in both urban and rural areas."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Food [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel [9], 02/16/2016
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"Michigan Legionnaires' Deaths Were Preventable, Official Says" [10]

"Residents of Flint, Michigan, began getting gravely ill and in some cases dying in summer 2014 in one of the worst outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in U.S. history, and a county health director says attempts to find the source were hampered when the state wouldn't request federal assistance."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Source: CNN [17], 02/15/2016
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"Meet The ‘Rented White Coats’ Who Defend Toxic Chemicals" [18]

"How corporate-funded research is corrupting America’s courts and regulatory agencies".

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [21], 02/09/2016
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"Chlorine Trains Pose an Even Deadlier Threat Than Oil Trains" [22]

"A new report finds the railroad cars that transport the toxic gas around the United States are vulnerable to accidents and sabotage."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [24]
Transportation [25]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: takepart [26], 02/09/2016
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"Bayer Rejects EPA Request To Pull Insecticide From U.S. Market" [27]

"The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG said on Friday it will fight a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request to pull one of its insecticides from the marketplace amid concerns that it could harm organisms in streams and ponds."

Chemicals [2]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [28], 02/08/2016
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"Review Reveals Problems Protecting Workers From Pesticides" [29]

"BELLE GLADE, Fla. — Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings."

Agriculture [30]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: AP [31], 02/04/2016
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Group Issues Data Map Showing Poor, Minorities Face More Toxic Risks [32]

Based on a variety of data sources, the Center for Effective Government's new map and database shows that "people of color and poor residents are significantly more likely to live near dangerous chemical facilities than white and non-poor residents" in the U.S.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [33]
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Chemicals [2]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [14]
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Public [5]
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EPA Releases Latest Toxics Release Inventory — a Key Tool for Journos [35]

The database, which covers a list of some 689 toxic chemicals, includes self-reported information about dangerous chemicals handled and released at industrial facilities during 2014, the latest year for which data is available. Companies reported the 2014 totals in mid-2015.

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WatchDog TipSheet [33]
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Chemicals [2]
Government [12]
Technology [36]
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Public [5]
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Flint Hearing Raises Freedom of Information Concerns [37]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's openness has been a major issue throughout the crisis of contaminated drinking water in Flint, which has caused lead poisoning of some children. One aspect of the openness issue is the ability of agency employees to speak with journalists; another is unfulfilled FOIA requests.

SEJ Publication Types: 
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Chemicals [2]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
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Public [5]
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