"Risky Business: Hollywood Bets Big on ‘Deepwater Horizon’
"In Hollywood, films like “Deepwater Horizon” are not supposed to exist."
Source: NY Times, 09/23/2016
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Va. OKs Coal-Ash Water Permit For Chesterfield Plant; Enviros Object
"The State Water Control Board unanimously approved a complex and expansive permit Thursday that will allow Dominion Virginia Power to drain millions of gallons of wastewater from the coal ash ponds at its Chesterfield Power Station, the largest fossil fuel plant in Virginia, then treat it and discharge it into the James River."
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, 09/23/2016
"Deadly Pathogens Repeatedly Dispatched By U.S. Labs To Unsecure Sites"
"The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say".
Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 09/23/2016
EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf
"Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law."
Source: Truthout, 09/23/2016
"Lawmakers Slam 'Disturbing' Firing Of Agency Scientist"
"'Disturbing.' 'Frightening.' 'Shocking.' Those were some of the adjectives used by Republican lawmakers yesterday to describe the firing of a Department of Energy radiation biologist in 2014 for allegedly providing answers to Congress that countered the wishes of Department of Energy officials."
Source: E&E Daily, 09/23/2016
"Pesticide Manufacturers' Own Tests Reveal Serious Harm To Honeybees"
"Bayer and Syngenta criticised for secrecy after unpublished research obtained under freedom of information law linked high doses of their products to damage to the health of bee colonies".
Source: Guardian, 09/23/2016
"A Growing Health Threat That Will Kill More People Than Cancer"
"On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly [devoted] an entire day to a high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance. The meeting is recognition that bacteria and other microbes are evolving to become more and more resistant to antibiotics and other antimicrobials, which means that these drugs will eventually become ineffective against even the simplest infections unless there are major changes in how they are used in medicine and agriculture."
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 09/23/2016
"Monsanto May Have Just Ended The War On GMOs"
"The next genetically modified food you eat probably won't be a GMO."
Source: Business Insider, 09/23/2016
"U.S., Canada Aboriginal Tribes Form Alliance To Stop Oil Pipelines"
"WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Aboriginal tribes from Canada and the northern United States signed a treaty on Thursday to jointly fight proposals to build more pipelines to carry crude from Alberta's oil sands, saying further development would damage the environment."
Source: Reuters, 09/23/2016
"How the FDA Manipulates the Media"
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been arm-twisting journalists into relinquishing their reportorial independence, our investigation reveals. Other institutions are following suit".
Source: Scientific American, 09/23/2016
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