"Toxic Chemicals Turn Up in Great Lakes Plastic Pollution"
"Toxic chemicals clinging to plastics could cause health problems for fish and other organisms in the Great Lakes."
Source: Great Lakes Echo, 04/09/2013
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"Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime"
"On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the air. And at one of the country’s largest egg suppliers, a video shows hens caged alongside rotting bird corpses, while workers burn and snap off the beaks of young chicks."
Source: NY Times, 04/08/2013
"New Orleans Stench May Be Linked to Exxon Refinery Leak: Coast Guard"
"A 'rank' odor that has spread across parts of greater New Orleans may be linked to a leak from the 192,500-barrel-per-day Chalmette refinery, the U.S. Coast Guard investigating the smell said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 04/05/2013
"Lead Poisoning Toll Revised To 1 in 38 Young Kids"
"The increase is the result of the government last year lowering the threshold for lead poisoning."
Source: USA TODAY, 04/05/2013
"Leak Near Colo. Plant Highlights Pipeline Problems"
"DENVER -- Authorities are investigating after construction crews discovered a problem with a liquid gas pipeline that allowed a carcinogen to seep into the ground near a large creek that feeds into the Colorado River."
Source: AP, 04/03/2013
"EPA to Study Flame Retardant Chemicals. Finally."
"The EPA announced [March 27] that it will study the health and environmental risks of 23 chemicals, with an emphasis on chemical flame retardants that are found in many common products."
Source: Mother Jones, 04/01/2013
Pesticide Lobby Spends Millions To Defend Chemicals Tied To Bee Deaths
"WASHINGTON -- The chemical pesticide lobby is waging a multi-million dollar battle to prevent regulation of chemicals linked to the dramatic escalation in the deaths of pollinating bees over the past year."
Source: Huffington Post, 04/01/2013
"Business Interests Trump Health Concerns in Fish Consumption Fight"
"The Washington State Department of Ecology has known since the 1990s that its water-pollution limits have meant some Washingtonians regularly consume dangerous amounts of toxic chemicals in fish from local waterways."
Source: Investigate West, 04/01/2013
"Chemical Industry Clout Delays EPA Regulation of Hexavalent Chromium"
The story of hexavalent chromium, a carcinogen, in drinking water is not over, even though Erin Brockovich's legal victory was vaunted in a film 13 years ago. Groundwater near Hinkley, Calif., is still polluted. The story of how industry clout has kept EPA delaying regulation of chromium in drinking water is a tale of the chemical industry's ability to manipulate regulation by sowing doubt. But recent highly dramatized stories on chrome-6 in drinking water may not have helped much, to the extent that they downplayed natural background levels, the importance of dose, and the statistical problems in identifying cancer clusters. The whole saga raises key issues about public relations, lobbying, regulatory politics, the legal system, environmental journalism, and the protection of public health.
Source: PR Watch, 03/29/2013
"Coal Tar Industry Fights Bans on Sealants"
"Lobbying group funds research, argues products are safe despite government studies linking them to pollution."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 03/29/2013
