"East Chicago Lead Pollution 'A Potential Catastrophe'"
"EAST CHICAGO — About once a week for much of 2015, Kamia Edwards’ son was too sick to go to school."
Source: Indianapolis Star, 08/23/2016
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"An Indiana City Is Poised To Become The Next Flint"
A chronic array of mysterious health problems among public housing residents in East Chicago, Indiana, was finally traced to soil contaminated with lead and arsenic by decades of industrial activity. Authorities from various government agencies had kept residents in the dark about the threat.
Source: Think Progress, 08/16/2016
"Chemical Safety Board Joins Sunoco Inquiry"
"The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is joining the investigation into the Friday night fire at Sunoco Logistics in which seven contract workers were injured, including four who were critically burned." The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is already investigating.
Source: Beaumont Enterprise, 08/16/2016
"Secret ‘Chemtrail’ Spraying Not Real, Scientists Agree"
"Long-lasting white trails left behind by aircraft are caused by well-understood physical and chemical processes, not a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, concludes new research from Carnegie Science, University of California-Irvine, and the nonprofit Near Zero."
Source: ENS, 08/15/2016
"Zika, Miami And Innovative Alternatives To Pesticides"
"As locally acquired cases of Zika continue to gradually grow in Miami, officials are still hamstrung in deploying a promising technology to fight the mosquitoes that transmit the virus, Aedes aegypti. There are 22 locally acquired cases in Florida, 19 primarily in the Wynwood area of Miami, two in Broward County, and a new case in Palm Beach County."
Source: Forbes, 08/15/2016
"How Bad Is Your Air-Conditioner for the Planet?"
"We may be in the clear when it comes to heat domes, but it’s still really hot. More than half the country could see temperatures in the 90s by the end of the week, and if that forecast comes true, you may find relief in the cool, crisp breeze of an air-conditioner. But in the next few years, the way air-conditioners work could change."
Source: NY Times, 08/12/2016
Skeptic Texas Toxicologist Seeks Seat on EPA Air Science Panel
"Texas’ top toxicologist, who has accused the EPA of fear-mongering about toxic chemicals, is vying for a seat on the agency’s clean air committee."
Source: Texas Observer, 08/12/2016
NC State Epidemiologist Resigns After McCrory "Misleads" on Well Water
"North Carolina’s state epidemiologist resigned Wednesday to protest her employer’s depiction that “deliberately misleads” how screening standards were created to test private wells near Duke Energy’s power plants."
Source: Charlotte Observer, 08/11/2016
Unsafe Levels of Teflon Chemicals In 6 Million Americans' Drinking Water
"Drinking water supplies serving more than six million Americans contain unsafe levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked to potentially serious health problems, according to a new study from Harvard University researchers."
Source: Wash Post, 08/10/2016
"Colorado Activists Submit Petitions for Referendums on Fracking"
"In an effort to halt the advance of the oil industry in Colorado, environmental activists said they submitted enough signatures on Monday to place on November’s ballot two initiatives aimed at severely limiting hydraulic fracturing."
Source: NY Times, 08/09/2016
