"Researchers Ask Canada To Ban Asbestos"
"An international group of researchers is renewing its call for a global ban on the mining and use of asbestos, a known cause of cancer they say is unsafe in any form."
Source: Reuters, 07/02/2010
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"EPA Says More Testing Needed To Know Dispersants' Impacts"
"The first round of government tests of the chemical dispersants that are being used to break up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico found they aren't overly damaging to shrimp and small fish, but more tests are needed to determine what happens when they're mixed with oil."
Source: McClatchy, 07/01/2010
"Warning About Strawberry Field Chemical Ignored, Scientists Say"
"California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical called methyl iodide for the state's coastal strawberry fields, allowing levels of exposure that the state's own experts say will put farmworkers and bystanders at risk."
Source: California Watch, 06/30/2010
"Enviro Group Sues to Force BPA Ban in Food Packaging"
"A leading environmental group filed a court challenge today to the Food and Drug Administration's handling of bisphenol A, aiming to force the agency to act on a 20-month-old request to bar the controversial chemical from food packaging."
Source: Greenwire, 06/30/2010
"Potentially Harmful Chemicals Used in Pa. Drilling"
"Compounds associated with neurological problems, cancer and other serious health effects are among the chemicals being used to drill natural gas wells in Pennsylvania, although state and industry officials said Monday the practice is not polluting drinking water."
Source: AP, 06/29/2010
"A Closer Look: Pesticides in Strawberry Fields"
"Scientists say methyl bromide threatens the ozone layer, and its alternative, methyl iodide, is a threat to workers and their families."
Source: LA Times, 06/28/2010
"EPA Forced to Review Pesticide Testing on Humans"
"Federal rules governing pesticide experiments using people as test subjects must be rewritten and issued for public comment under a new agreement reached between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and public health groups, farm worker advocates and environmental organizations."
Source: ENS, 06/25/2010
"BP Continues to Use Surface Dispersants in Gulf Despite EPA Directive"
"BP PLC has applied 272,000 gallons of dispersants to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico in the four weeks since U.S. EPA directed the company to stop using the chemicals, except "in rare cases" when other approaches to fighting the ongoing oil leak proved unworkable, according to government records."
Source: Greenwire, 06/25/2010
Health Data Gaps, Suspicions About BP Worry U.S. Panelists at Hearing
"There are 'large gaps' in data now being gathered on the health of the 34,000 workers cleaning up the largest oil spill in U.S. history and growing concern that BP Plc will fail to publicize problems if they arise." Those concerns came up at an Institute of Medicine hearing Tuesday.
Source: Bloomberg, 06/23/2010
"In Fracking Debate,' Disclosure' Is in the Eye of the Beholder"
"In the intense but inscrutable debate about the chemicals that drillers inject underground to flush out natural gas, this much can be said: Everyone is for disclosure."
Source: Greenwire, 06/22/2010
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