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Baltimore County Chemical Train Wreck Brings Explosion, Fire, Smoke [1]

"A freight train smacked into a truck carrying garbage and careened off the tracks in Rosedale Tuesday afternoon, triggering an explosion felt throughout the region and sending up a plume of black smoke visible for miles."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Public [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
Source: Baltimore Sun [6], 05/29/2013
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"Pesticides Again Tied To Parkinson's Disease" [7]

"Exposure to pesticides and other chemicals is linked to an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a fresh look at some past research."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [8]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Reuters [10], 05/29/2013
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"Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation" [11]

 

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Chemicals [2]
Health [13]
Pollution [14]
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"Study Shows Dangers Of BPA Chemical Used in Plastic Packaging" [16]

"Bisphenol A is used to line drinks cans and in tests affected the way genes work in the brains of laboratory rats."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [8]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Independent [17], 05/28/2013
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"How West Was Spun" [18]

"Mistakes were made, and one narrative too readily embraced, in coverage of the blast. Meanwhile, The Dallas Morning News excelled."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Journalism & Media [19]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Columbia Journalism Review [20], 05/28/2013
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"You Need Phosphorus to Live—and We're Running Out" [21]

"Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil."

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [2]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [4]
International [24]
Source: Mother Jones [25], 05/27/2013
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"How Pesticides Pushed Cockroaches Into Rapid Evolution" [26]

"In the 1980s, manufactures began making cockroach baits that combined sweet glucose with deadly insecticides. By 1993, many cockroach populations somehow developed an aversion to the bait. Now, 20 years later, scientists finally understand how the roaches beat these traps."

Biodiversity [27]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [28]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: io9 [29], 05/24/2013
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"Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Give EPA Power To Ban Dangerous Chemicals" [30]

"In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to force harmful compounds off the market."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Chicago Tribune [33], 05/23/2013
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Secret White House Review Paralyzes Chemical Safety [34]

An EPA initiative to protect American consumers from toxic chemicals, especially endocrine disruptors, has run into a brick wall put up by the Obama White House three years ago due to secret urging of the chemical industry — even though the law requires information and arguments on which federal regulations are based to be open and on the record.

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"City Agrees to Faster Cleanup of PCBs in Schools" [36]

"With smoke and tar from faulty light fixtures leaking into New York City public school classrooms at alarming rates, the Bloomberg administration said on Tuesday that it would cut in half the time it needed to replace them."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [8]
Pollution [14]
Public [4]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [15]
Source: NY Times [37], 05/22/2013
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