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"As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester"

"OSHA devotes most of its budget and attention to responding to here-and-now dangers rather than preventing the silent, slow killers that, in the end, take far more lives. Over the past four decades, the agency has written new standards with exposure limits for 16 of the most deadly workplace hazards, including lead, asbestos and arsenic. But for the tens of thousands of other dangerous substances American workers handle each day, employers are largely left to decide what exposure level is safe."

Source: NY Times, 04/01/2013

Information Commissioner To Probe 'Muzzling' of Government Scientists

"Wide-ranging investigation, which will look into six different federal departments, is to review incidents in which the media was thwarted when trying to speak to Canadian government scientists about their work."

Source: Toronto Star, 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

"Ameren Coal Ash Used as Mine Fill Near Ste. Genevieve"

"STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Ameren Missouri has spent the past four years engaged in a bitter fight with Labadie-area residents over a proposal to pile millions of cubic yards of coal ash on a plot of cropland by the Missouri River."

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 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

"Exxon Pipeline Leaks Thousands of Barrels of Canadian Oil in Arkansas"

"Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States."

Source: Reuters, 04/01/2013

DOE Webinars on State Energy Strategic Planning and Combined Heat and Power

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will present two live webinars, April 3, 2013 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT: "State Energy Strategic Planning" and "CHP: Enabling Resilient Energy Infrastructure." Free registration required.

Seas the Day: A Media Conversation on Ocean Issues, Hosted by Grist

With the world's oceans increasingly in the headlines, any writer worth his or her salt (water) needs to know a thing or two about the basics. Join Grist, Ocean Conservancy, and Climate Central from 1-2 p.m. EDT, April 16 2013, for a lively online Q&A on understanding ocean issues from acidification to zooplankton, fishing for scientific accuracy, and conveying it all to the public with a splash.

"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

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