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Link Seen Between Ubiquitous Cadmium & Kids With Learning Disabilities

"It's a heavy metal. It's linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed. Sounds like lead? It's cadmium. Signs are emerging that cadmium – a widespread contaminant that gets little attention from health experts and regulators – could be the new lead. Children with higher cadmium levels are three times more likely to have learning disabilities and participate in special education, according to new research."

Source: EHN, 02/10/2012

"'Chemicals of Concern' List Stuck at OMB"

"About 21 months ago, a proposed list of widely used chemicals that may pose health risks landed at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget for review. It’s still there."

Source: iWatch News, 02/10/2012

CA Cement Plant Has One of Nation's Highest Mercury Emission Levels

"TEHACHAPI, Calif. -- At the end of an empty road just north of Highway 58 and past the outfield wall of an abandoned high school looms the towering Lehigh Southwest Cement plant -- a behemoth kiln that belches mercury and other toxics into the air, as it has for decades."

Source: California Watch, 02/09/2012

"PPG Refuses To Recall Leaded Paint in Cameroon"

"PPG Industries has been selling house paint high in lead content in the African nation of Cameroon for years, and although it says it stopped production of that paint late last year, it has rejected a request that it recall or accurately label its lead paints now selling in stores there."

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 02/09/2012

Maryland: "Lawmakers Debate Ban on Arsenic in Chicken Feed"

"Chicken farmers nationwide have stopped feeding their flocks a drug containing arsenic since a 2011 government study suggested the cancer-causing metal may be tainting poultry, but Maryland lawmakers are still struggling with whether to ban the once-widespread practice."

Source: Baltimore Sun, 02/09/2012

"NAFTA Lead Battery Poisoning Probe to Focus on Mexico"

"MONTREAL -- The transboundary movement of spent lead-acid batteries in North America has environmental and public health consequences to communities in Mexico that are the subject of a new investigation by the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, CEC."

Source: ENS, 02/09/2012

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Link Seen Between Ubiquitous Cadmium & Kids With Learning Disabilities

"'Chemicals of Concern' List Stuck at OMB"

CA Cement Plant Has One of Nation's Highest Mercury Emission Levels

"PPG Refuses To Recall Leaded Paint in Cameroon"

Maryland: "Lawmakers Debate Ban on Arsenic in Chicken Feed"

"NAFTA Lead Battery Poisoning Probe to Focus on Mexico"

Atrazine and "The Frog of War"

"Nepal's Vulture 'Restaurants' For Endangered Birds"

"U.S. To Require Disclosure of Fracking Fluids on Public Land"

Minnesota: "High Levels of Mercury Found in North Shore Babies"

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