"EPA Video Shows Security Guard Shove Reporter Out Of Building"
"Security footage shows an EPA security guard push an Associated Press reporter out of the agency's headquarters last year."
Source: Greenwire, 02/27/2019
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"Michigan Releases Results Of Water Tests For PFAS Chemicals"
"More than 60 drinking water systems in Michigan sampled last year had measurable levels of a class of long-lasting and highly toxic chemicals linked to cancer and a variety of other illnesses, state officials said Monday."
Source: AP, 02/26/2019
"A Tale of Two Toxic Cities"
"The EPA’s bungled response to an air pollution crisis exposes a toxic racial divide".
Source: The Intercept, 02/26/2019
"The Dawn of the Age of Plastics"
"The 1939 World’s Fair was a testament to cork’s primacy in consumer packaging. But a little-known substance called plastic was waiting in the wings."
"In the closing months of World War II, Americans talked nonstop about how and when the war would end, and about how life was about to change. Germany would fall soon, people agreed on that. Opinions varied on how much longer the war in the Pacific would go on.
Source: Undark, 02/26/2019
"Plastics: The New Coal in Appalachia?"
"With the natural gas fracking boom, plastics production is spreading in the Ohio River Valley. But at what cost to health and climate?"
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/25/2019
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Sicken Military Families
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When Army Staff Sgt. Samuel Fortune returned from Iraq, his body battered by war, he assumed he’d be safe. Then the people around him began to get sick. His neighbors, all living near five military bases, complained of tumors, thyroid problems and debilitating fatigue. Soon, the Colorado health department announced an unusually high number of kidney cancers in the region. Then Mr. Fortune’s wife fell ill."
Source: NY Times, 02/25/2019
Public Health: EPA Stalls Review Of 'Erin Brockovich' Chemical: Emails
"Last July, career EPA officials were set to unveil their plan to complete a long-awaited health review of the toxic metal hexavalent chromium, but more than half a year later, the plan is still under wraps — the latest delay for the human health assessment of the anti-corrosion chemical made infamous by the 2000 film 'Erin Brockovich.'"
Source: Greenwire, 02/25/2019
"Bayer Faces Second Trial Over Alleged Roundup Cancer Risk"
"Bayer AG is set to face a second U.S. jury over allegations that its popular glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer, six months after the company’s share price was rocked by a $289 million verdict in California state court."
Source: Reuters, 02/25/2019
"Pollution Casts Shadow Over New Mexico’s Booming Dairy Industry"
"For months, Clovis, New Mexico, dairy farmer Art Schaap has been watching his life go down the drain. Instead of selling milk, he is dumping 15,000 gallons a day – enough to provide a carton at lunch to 240,000 children. Instead of working 24/7 to keep his animals healthy, he’s planning to exterminate all 4,000 of his cows, one of the best herds in his county’s booming dairy industry."
Source: Guardian, 02/20/2019
"Is the Insect Apocalypse Really Upon Us?"
"Claims that insects will disappear within a century are absurd, but the reality isn’t reassuring either."
Source: Atlantic, 02/20/2019
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