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"Washington State Sues U.S. Over Toxic Vapors at Nuclear Waste Site" [1]

"The U.S. government has failed to adequately safeguard crews involved in the decades-long cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, leaving workers sickened by exposure to toxic vapors, the state said in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [4]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [6]
Source: Reuters [7], 09/03/2015
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"Latvia, Greece Win Opt-Out From Monsanto GM Crop" [8]

"Monsanto said it would abide by Latvia's and Greece's requests under a new EU opt-out law to be excluded from its application to grow a genetically modified (GM) crop across the European Union, but accused them of ignoring science."

Agriculture [9]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Food [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [14]
Public [5]
International [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 09/01/2015
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"What’s in All That E-Cig Vapor?" [17]

"Wander into a vape shop in the mall or online, and you can find a smorgasbord of flavors: cotton candy, vanilla custard, even Unicorn Milk or Katy Perry’s Cherry."

Environmental Health [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Wash Post [19], 09/01/2015
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"More Evidence of Roundup's Link To Kidney, Liver Damage" [20]

"Long-term exposure to tiny amounts of Roundup—thousands of times lower than what is permitted in U.S. drinking water—may lead to serious problems in the liver and kidneys, according to a new study."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: EHN [21], 08/28/2015
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Food Safety Group Sues Ag Department for FOIA'd Records on GMO Crops [22]

The Center for Food Safety has sued the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Freedom of Information Act for withholding information on genetically modified crops (GMOs), after unsuccessfully seeking information over a period of 13 years.

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"Big Food is Spending Millions to Lobby for Less Transparency" [25]

"From GMO labeling to pesticides to the source of the meat you buy, a handful of companies are spending heavily to keep information off your food labels."

Agriculture [9]
Economy & Business [26]
Environmental Health [3]
Food [12]
Journalism & Media [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [28], 08/26/2015
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"How California’s Pesticide Regulator Spun a Concerned Community" [29]

California's Department of Pesticide Regulation gave Ventura County residents a misleading story about why it had allowed cancer-causing pesticide to be used by strawberry farmers near a local high school.

Agriculture [9]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
People & Population [30]
Public [5]
California [31]
Source: Reveal (CIR) [32], 08/25/2015
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Pesticides: "Hawaii's Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops" [33]

"Local doctors are in the eye of a storm swirling for the past three years over whether corn that’s been genetically modified to resist pesticides is a source of prosperity, as companies claim, or of birth defects and illnesses".

Agriculture [9]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [5]
Alaska and Hawaii [34]
Source: Guardian [35], 08/24/2015
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Scientists Call for New Review of Herbicide, Cite "Flawed" US Regs [36]

"U.S. regulators have relied on flawed and outdated research to allow expanded use of an herbicide linked to cancer, and new assessments should be urgently conducted, according to a column published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [37], 08/21/2015
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"The Teflon Toxin: How DuPont Slipped Past the EPA" [38]

"During the five decades in which DuPont used and profited from C8, the company had only infrequently discussed the chemical with environmental authorities, and it kept most of its extensive internal research on the chemical confidential."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Journalism & Media [27]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Intercept [39], 08/21/2015
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