"Chlorine Trains Pose an Even Deadlier Threat Than Oil Trains"
"A new report finds the railroad cars that transport the toxic gas around the United States are vulnerable to accidents and sabotage."
Source: takepart, 02/09/2016
Chemicals
"Bayer Rejects EPA Request To Pull Insecticide From U.S. Market"
"The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG said on Friday it will fight a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request to pull one of its insecticides from the marketplace amid concerns that it could harm organisms in streams and ponds."
Source: Reuters, 02/08/2016
"Review Reveals Problems Protecting Workers From Pesticides"
"BELLE GLADE, Fla. — Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings."
Source: AP, 02/04/2016
Group Issues Data Map Showing Poor, Minorities Face More Toxic Risks
Based on a variety of data sources, the Center for Effective Government's new map and database shows that "people of color and poor residents are significantly more likely to live near dangerous chemical facilities than white and non-poor residents" in the U.S.
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EPA Releases Latest Toxics Release Inventory — a Key Tool for Journos
The database, which covers a list of some 689 toxic chemicals, includes self-reported information about dangerous chemicals handled and released at industrial facilities during 2014, the latest year for which data is available. Companies reported the 2014 totals in mid-2015.
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Flint Hearing Raises Freedom of Information Concerns
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's openness has been a major issue throughout the crisis of contaminated drinking water in Flint, which has caused lead poisoning of some children. One aspect of the openness issue is the ability of agency employees to speak with journalists; another is unfulfilled FOIA requests.
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"An Industrial Chemical Finds Its Way Into Great Lakes Trout"
"An industrial chemical is showing up in trout from the Great Lakes. It’s called perfluoro-1-butane sulfonamide, or FBSA."
Source: Michigan Radio, 02/03/2016
"Are Bee-Killing Pesticides Impacting Our Health?"
"What do we know about the human health effects of neonicotinoids? Astonishingly little. Here’s why scientists say that isn’t good enough."
Source: Civil Eats, 02/03/2016
"Sentencings Set for Ex-Execs in West Virginia Chemical Spill"
"Two years after thousands of gallons of a coal-cleaning agent leaked into the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians, the sentencings of six officials at a chemical distributor this month will bring to a close criminal cases in the spill."
Source: AP, 02/01/2016
"Hoosick Falls: Getting By With Contaminated Water"
"Even before state officials designated the village a Superfund site late Wednesday afternoon, residents of Hoosick Falls have been waiting for a solution to their water contamination issue."
Source: WAMC, 01/28/2016
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