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"Counterfeit Super Bowl Fan Gear May Be Tainted With Toxins" [1]

"The price of a Russell Wilson game jersey found on one website is about $20. A Broncos infant onesie on the same site sells for around $5. Too good to be true? Probably."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Huffington Post [7], 02/03/2014
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After Tyrone Hayes Said Atrazine Was Harmful, Its Maker Pursued Him [8]

"In 2001, seven years after joining the biology faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, Tyrone Hayes stopped talking about his research with people he didn’t trust."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Politics [9]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: New Yorker [10], 02/03/2014
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"N.Y. Health Dept. Fracking Review Done in Secret" [11]

"ALBANY — After four rounds of hearings, hundreds of thousands of public comments, two governors and a pair of voluminous draft reports, New York’s review of hydraulic fracturing is now taking place entirely behind closed doors."

Journalism & Media [12]
Environmental Politics [9]
Environmental Health [4]
Chemicals [2]
Public [5]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [13]
Source: Elmira Star-Gazette [14], 02/03/2014
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"Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees’ Foodgathering Ability" [15]

"BRIGHTON, UK -- Controversial pesticides ingested by bumble bees can seriously impact the insects’ ability to collect food, even at very low levels of contamination, finds new research from the University of Sussex and the University of Stirling."

Chemicals [2]
Wildlife [16]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: ENS [18], 01/30/2014
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"Banned Scotchgard Chemical Still Contaminating San Francisco Seals" [19]

"SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – In a shallow arm of the bay, where Pacific tides cause hardly a ripple, hundreds of harbor seals lounge, mate and bear young. With placid expressions on bewhiskered faces and bulky bodies reclining on shorelines, the seals belie a disturbing burden they carry."

Chemicals [2]
Wildlife [16]
Public [5]
California [20]
Source: EHN [21], 01/30/2014
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"Tests Said to Find Formaldehyde in West Virginia Tap Water" [22]

"Tests on the water supply in Charleston, W. Va., a week after a chemical spill tainted the city’s water system turned up traces of formaldehyde, suggesting that 'there’s a lot more we don’t know' about the consequences of the spill, an environmental expert told a state legislative committee on Wednesday."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: NY Times [25], 01/30/2014
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February 5, 2014

Key Legal Issues Facing the Administration in 2014: Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources [26]

The Environmental Law Institute will host a panel of four expert practitioners with an “inside-baseball” discussion about upcoming policies and regulatory agendas at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Department of Interior, among other regulatory agencies. Attend live in Washington, DC or via teleconference, 12:00-1:30 p.m. RSVP by Jan 31.

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Policy [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Government [31]
Environmental Politics [9]
Environmental Health [4]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Disasters [34]
Climate Change [35]
Chemicals [2]
Agriculture [36]
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National (U.S.) [6]

"DDT Linked To Higher Risk of Alzheimer's" [37]

"People with high levels of exposure to the banned insecticide DDT were four times more likely to have Alzheimer’s disease than people with low levels, according to a study of patients in Georgia and Texas published today. The research is among the first to report a connection between Alzheimer’s, which is the world’s most common neurodegenerative disease, and chemicals in the environment."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: EHN [38], 01/28/2014
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"Weak Federal Rules Cover Chemical Spills, Explosions" [39]

"This month's chemical spill in West Virginia reveals a weak web of rules on chemical use."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [34]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: USA TODAY [40], 01/28/2014
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FDA Allowed Antibiotics in Animal Feed Despite Risk to Health: Report [41]

"The Food and Drug Administration has continued to allow dozens of antibiotics to be used in livestock feed, despite findings from its researchers that the drugs could expose humans to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through the food supply, an environmental advocacy group said in a report Monday."

Food [42]
Environmental Health [4]
Chemicals [2]
Agriculture [36]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Wash Post [43], 01/28/2014
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