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"Ottawa Ignoring Hazards Of Top Pesticides Sold In Canada"

"Dr. Paul Winchester’s passion is delivering healthy babies."

Source: National Observer, 08/11/2017

"Scant Oversight, Corporate Secrecy Preceded U.S. Weed Killer Crisis"

"As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of beans, peach orchards and vegetable gardens withering away."

Source: Reuters, 08/10/2017

"California’s Plan to Tackle a Carcinogen Widespread in Water"

"Decades after declaring 1,2,3-TCP a carcinogen, California is finally regulating the toxin. But the cost of remediation will be high and communities are turning toward litigation to pay for water treatment."

Source: Water Deeply, 08/10/2017

"Coal Plants Might Be Even More Toxic Than We Thought"

"An environmental disaster in North Carolina reveals that a rare, potentially dangerous compound is abundant in burned coal."

Source: Bloomberg, 08/09/2017

CA Water Districts Sue Feds for $1.4 Billion To Clean Drinking Supply

"In a sweeping legal fight that could affect drinking water supplies for thousands of Sacramento-area residents, two water districts near the old McClellan Air Force Base are suing the federal government for $1.4 billion to clean up the cancer-causing chemical hexavalent chromium from the area’s groundwater supplies."

Source: Sacramento Bee, 08/09/2017

Groups To Sue DuPont and Chemours for Contaminating NC Drinking Water

"In the past two weeks, two citizens groups in North Carolina announced plans to sue Chemours, the DuPont spin-off company that now makes GenX, over its release of the chemical from its plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority issued a letter of intent to sue both Chemours and DuPont last week over violations of the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by releasing GenX into the Cape Fear River, which is a source of drinking water for more than 250,000 people in the Wilmington area."

Source: The Intercept, 08/09/2017

"Climate: In Hit To Obama Legacy, Court Rejects HFC Phaseout Effort"

"A federal court [Tuesday] ruled that U.S. EPA cannot require companies to replace potent heat-trapping chemicals with other substances, dealing a blow to part of the Obama administration's climate change legacy."

Source: Greenwire, 08/09/2017

100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Found and Published

"For decades, some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum’s barn."

Source: The Intercept, 08/02/2017

"Monsanto’s Sway Over Research Is Seen in Disclosed Emails"

"Documents released Tuesday in a lawsuit against Monsanto raised new questions about the company’s efforts to influence the news media and scientific research and revealed internal debate over the safety of its highest-profile product, the weed killer Roundup."

Source: NY Times, 08/02/2017

Pittsburgh May Have 'Deflected' Attention From Lead-Contaminated Water

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Residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were given 'misleading' statements by health officials who 'deflected' attention from lead-contaminated water, according to the audit."

Source: Guardian, 07/26/2017