3M Knew About Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago: Internal Documents
"Internal studies and other documents show that 3M knew by the 1970s that PFOA and PFOS were toxic and accumulating in people's blood."
Source: The Intercept, 08/01/2018
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"Chlorpyrifos Restrictions Could Be In Store In California"
"The California Department of Pesticide Regulation should list chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant (TAC), a state scientific panel has recommended following review of a comprehensive risk assessment of the widely used insecticide."
Source: Agri-Pulse, 07/31/2018
Hidden Studies, Decades-Old, Could Have Curbed PFAS Problem: Scientist
"Studies conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s were kept under wraps by chemical companies as pollution spread across the US, according to an editorial published today."
Source: EHN, 07/31/2018
Michigan Declares Emergency In Kalamazoo County Over PFAS-Tainted Water
"Lt. Gov. Brian Calley on Sunday declared a state of emergency for Kalamazoo County [Mich.] after high levels of contaminants were found in the drinking water."
Source: Detroit News, 07/31/2018
"From Dow’s ‘Dioxin Lawyer’ to Trump’s Choice to Run Superfund"
"The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation’s most extensive cleanups, one involving Dow Chemical’s sprawling headquarters in Midland, Mich."
Source: NY Times, 07/30/2018
"No More Slurping Through Plastic Straws In San Francisco"
"Soon to be heard in San Francisco: the last slurp through a plastic straw. That’s because the city’s about to make them illegal."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 07/26/2018
"A Toxic Town, A Search For Answers"
"Industrial chemicals dumped long ago still haunt Minden, W.Va., a community beset by cancer and fear. Like her father, physician Ayne Amjad is trying to track the links."
Source: Washington Post, 07/24/2018
"Displaced by Pipe Blast Contamination, Residents Seek Answers"
"Three days since an underground steam pipe burst in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, spewing asbestos-laced muck across several blocks, many residents were still barred from their homes on Sunday, coping not only with sudden homelessness, but fear about what the exposure could do to their health."
Source: NY Times, 07/23/2018
"Is BPA Making Us Fat, Anxious And Sick?"
"The way the Food and Drug Administration assesses safety has long favored industry studies over independent science."
Source: HuffPost, 07/23/2018
"EPA Staff Worried About Toxic Chemical Exposure — For Pruitt"
"Then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's staff sought to protect him from exposure to toxic formaldehyde from an office desk last year, emails show — just months before his top political aides blocked the release of a report on health dangers from the same chemical."
Source: Politico, 07/23/2018
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