Study Finds Roughly 19 Million Exposed To Toxic PFAS In Drinking Water
"Roughly 19 million people across the country are being exposed to toxic compounds in drinking water, a new study has revealed."
Source: HuffPost, 05/08/2019
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La. Town: 'Almost Every Household Has Someone That Has Died From Cancer'
"From her front porch in Reserve, Louisiana, Mary Hampton looks in every direction and sees ghosts."
Source: Guardian, 05/07/2019
Bald Eagle Poisoning Deaths Continue In Area Of Maryland
"A once-common farm pesticide killed millions of birds before the U.S. government took steps to restrict its use in the 1990s and ban it in 2009. Since then, such poisonings have made up a small fraction of deaths among bald eagles — except in Maryland."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/06/2019
"Judges Question EPA's Lifting of Ban on Climate Super Pollutant HFCs"
"Two federal judges took President Donald Trump's administration to task on Friday over its decision to return to the market a group of banned refrigeration chemicals that are potent greenhouse gases."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/06/2019
"Louisiana House To Debate Keeping Industrial Pollution Reports Secret"
"Louisiana legislators are considering whether chemical plants and other industrial facilities should be allowed to conduct voluntary pollution audits that would remain secret and to grant legal immunity for certain violations discovered by the audits."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 05/02/2019
"Trump EPA Insists Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe, Despite Cancer Cases"
"The Trump administration is keeping the weedkiller Roundup on the US market, insisting it is safe for humans despite thousands of lawsuits launched by people who claim it gave them cancer."
Source: Guardian, 05/01/2019
High Levels of Toxic PFAS Chemicals Pollute Breast Milk Around World
"Decades after DuPont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes could be transmitted from mothers to babies, millions of women around the world are passing dangerous amounts of these toxic compounds to their children, according to a report published on Monday."
Source: The Intercept, 05/01/2019
"Brazil’s Pesticide Industry Is Creating Massive PFOS Contamination"
"While much of the world struggles to clean up contamination from the toxic industrial compound PFOS, Brazil is still adding to the massive environmental mess with its large-scale production, use, and export of sulfluramid, a pesticide that degrades into PFOS."
Source: The Intercept, 04/30/2019
How Corruption Waged War On An Alabama Superfund Cleanup
"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In autumn of 2013, a senior executive from a powerful coal company and a lawyer from one of the state’s most influential firms hashed out a strategy for avoiding a serious — and expensive — problem."
Source: Washington Post, 04/29/2019
Chemical Spill In Illinois Sends 37 People To The Hospital: 7 Critical
"A leak in a container holding hazardous chemicals created a massive chemical spill early Thursday and sent 37 people to the hospital, including seven in critical condition, said authorities in Beach Park, Illinois."
Source: CNN, 04/26/2019
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