DuPont Spinoff Chemours Lobbied EPA to Stave Off Greener Coolants
"Chemours asks in letter to the EPA for help promoting its HFO refrigerants, to stave off natural coolants that cause far less global warming."
Source: The Intercept, 08/28/2018
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State Knew of PFAS in Flint R Before Switch, But May Not Have Told City
"FLINT, MI -- Testing of the Flint River showed rising levels of PFAS contamination before it was used as the city's water source four years ago."
Source: Flint Journal, 08/27/2018
Kansans Drank Contaminated Water For Years. The State Didn’t Tell Them
"The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing."
Source: Wichita Eagle, 08/27/2018
Pesticide Studies Won EPA Trust, Until Trump Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’
"Backed by agrochemical companies, the current administration and Congress are moving to curb the role of human health studies in regulation."
Source: NY Times, 08/27/2018
"Is Your Water Safe? Harmful Chemical Found In Many Michigan Systems"
"Hundreds of municipal water supplies throughout Michigan may have unsafe levels of an emerging, persistent chemical compound once used in nonstick surfaces. But the State of Michigan, critics contend, is using outdated measuring criteria — meaning hundreds of communities have levels of the chemical that Michigan says are safe, but other studies show may be harmful."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 08/24/2018
"EPA: Agency Follows Industry Playbook To Attack Science"
"The Trump administration is assailing the science behind an influential study that helped lead to a ban on a widely used insecticide linked to brain damage in children, mirroring arguments made by the pesticide industry."
Source: Greenwire, 08/24/2018
"Bayer's Monsanto Faces 8,000 Lawsuits On Glyphosate"
"The number of U.S. lawsuits brought against Bayer’s newly acquired Monsanto has jumped to about 8,000, as the German drugmaker braces for years of legal wrangling over alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers."
Source: Reuters, 08/24/2018
"A Story Behind The Monsanto Cancer Trial — Journal Sits On Retraction"
"What "ghostwriting" by Monsanto means, how it has influenced, and still is influencing, material found in peer-reviewed scientific journals".
Source: EHN, 08/22/2018
"What Happened at Camp Lejeune"
"I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate."
Source: Pacific Standard, 08/22/2018
W Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton Fields
"On the High Plains in West Texas, hot winds blast through cotton fields as far as the eye can see. In the middle of it all is a tiny vineyard."
Source: NPR, 08/21/2018
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