"Bhopal: the Victims Are Still Being Born"
"Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial."
Source: Independent, 12/01/2009
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"African Dust Bringing Toxic Chemicals to U.S., Caribbean"
"Pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls are among the contaminants hitching an airborne ride to the United States and other parts of the Western Hemisphere on dust storms blowing out of West Africa. That's according to new research presented at the just-completed annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry."
Source: Dateline Earth, 11/25/2009
"Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use -- Report"
"The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued Tuesday by health and environmental protection groups."
Source: Reuters, 11/18/2009
Pesticides Down in Streams of Corn Belt: USGS
"A report shows concentrations of several major pesticides mostly declined or remained the same in the U.S. 'Corn Belt' rivers and streams from 1996 to 2006."
Source: UPI, 11/10/2009
"Salinas Valley Schools Perched Near Pesticide-Sprayed Farmland"
Some Salinas Valley residents worry that the drift of pesticides sprayed on fields near schools may endanger children, despite some controls.
Source: Salinas Californian, 11/09/2009
"Study Raises Red Flag Over Home Insecticides, Autoimmune Diseases"
"New research suggests a link between women's exposure to household insecticides -- including roach and mosquito killers -- and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus."
Source: USA TODAY, 10/23/2009
"OMB Endocrine Directive Draws Industry Cheers, Enviro Jeers"
"The Office of Management and Budget has instructed U.S. EPA to use existing toxicity data rather than require companies to conduct new tests to determine whether chemicals can damage the human endocrine system."
Source: Greenwire, 10/16/2009
"Obama Administration Calls for Chemical-Law Reform"
"With more and more toxic chemicals turning up in people's bodies and the environment, the Obama administration asked Congress Tuesday to draft a tougher law for how the government regulates tens of thousands of chemicals."
Source: AP, 09/30/2009
"Officials Knew for Decades That Park Was Contaminated"
"In the woods on the northern edge of Scofieldtown Park are remnants of its days as a landfill. Containers lay strewn among the trees -- milk and 7UP bottles that haven't been used since the 1950s. More sinister are rusty paint cans and empty, decaying 55-gallon chemical drums."
Source: Stamford Advocate, 09/29/2009
"Study Finds School Drinking Water Tainted"
"Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins."
Source: AP, 09/25/2009
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