Florida Lets Sewage Sludge Foul Everglades: Critics
Environmentalists say Florida officials are thwarting a 2-year-old law banning the spreading of sewage sludge on the Everglades.
Source: Orlando Sentinel, 06/30/2009
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"Air Has Elevated Cancer Risk in 600 Neighborhoods"
"People living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: AP, 06/24/2009
"Tracing Mercury's Transit to Coastal Environments"
On a global average, the amount of mercury falling out of the sky has tripled since the Industrial Revolution, primarily because of the burning of fossil fuels. Although this atmospheric deposition has long been considered the key vector for the widespread contamination of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, some scientists are focusing on another potential source: subterranean flows of terrestrial groundwater.
Source: ES&T, 06/23/2009
"Ozone Solution Poses a Growing Climate Threat"
"A group of chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, long hailed as a substitute for gases that can destroy the ozone layer, are now seen as a growing greenhouse threat given their outsize ability to warm the atmosphere."
Source: NYTimes, 06/23/2009
Weed Killer 'Inert' Kills Human Cells
An inert ingredient in the popular weedkiller Roundup has been found to kill human cells.
Source: EHN, 06/23/2009
"DOD, Defense Contractors Lobby to Block Perchlorate Advisory"
"The Pentagon and the defense industry is lobbying the White House to prevent U.S. EPA from tightening a health advisory for a rocket-fuel chemical."
Source: Greenwire, 06/23/2009
BPA May Cause Heart Disease in Women
"A study released this week by researchers at the University of Cincinnati says that exposure to bisphenol A may increase heart disease in women."
Source: AlterNet, 06/22/2009
"Illnesses Come to Light in Claims Against Disney"
"As their attorneys shuffle between four similar lawsuits that allege the Walt Disney Co. has for decades contaminated groundwater with cancer-causing chromium 6 and other toxic chemicals, stories of ill health from the plaintiffs are beginning to emerge."
Source: Glendale News Press, 06/16/2009
"EPA Chemical Database Rules a Political Hazard, Critics Say"
"Obama has invited politics into scientific task to update the catalog and assess the danger of industrial chemicals, some say."
Source: LA Times, 06/16/2009
"Report Cannot Link Lejeune Water to Diseases"
A National Research Council report says it may be impossible to know whether contaminated drinking water at the Camp Lejeune Marine base caused birth defects and illness among people seeking $33.9 billion in claims.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer, 06/15/2009
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