"DuPont said it plans to stop selling and recall its widely used Imprelis herbicide after customers and several lawsuits complained that the treatment has killed thousands of trees."

"It is the nation's first public health goal for hexavalent chromium, made infamous in 'Erin Brockovich.' The goal isn't an enforceable standard but will help develop one, an official says."

"The Environmental Protection Agency solicited public comment, July 26, about whether to require new toxicity testing and environmental sampling of bisphenol A, an ingredient in many plastics and food-contact resins." Recent studies suggest BPA exposure may come from a wider variety of products, and cause more serious health effects, than previously thought.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Oluf Johnson and organic farmers like him can sue for damages from neighboring farmers who apply pesticides that drift beyond their fencelines.

"New study finds that as warming heats up oceans and melts Arctic sea
ice, buried POPs are being re-released into the environment"

"Two months before completion of a health risk study on Velsicol pollution in South Chattanooga, state regulators say the company doesn't need to do any more cleanup but should put a deeper layer of dirt on its former pesticide and herbicide manufacturing site on Central Avenue."

"According to a new report released yesterday, efforts to protect children's health have been fatally blocked by American industry's refusal to submit information on the commercial use of chemicals."

"With the government declaring formaldehyde a carcinogen, these might be boom times for alternative embalming fluids — if it weren't for the so-called everlasting effect funeral directors stake their reputations on."

Fish bones are full of calcium phosphate. Now clean-up engineers are finding that fish bone meal is a good way to remedy lead contamination in soil, because they can bind lead in a form that the human body can not absorb.