"Morton's Practices Questioned"
Chemical company executives withheld from the Illinois EPA detailed information about a 1978 chemical spill as plans were being made to clean it up.
Source: Northwest Herald, 12/29/2009
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"Toxic Chemicals in Water Wells Have Grundy County Residents on Edge"
"Toxic chemicals have crept into the drinking water in a corner of rural Grundy County [Illinois], stoking fears and raising suspicions about who is to blame."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 12/29/2009
"Half of Kids Jewelry Tested Contains Pure Lead: Health Canada"
"OTTAWA -- Half of the children's jewelry items tested at the government's product safety laboratory last year were made of almost pure lead."
Source: Canwest, 12/23/2009
"AP Enterprise: Feds Mull Regulating Drugs in Water"
"Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some of the contaminants while acknowledging they could threaten human health."
Source: AP, 12/23/2009
"EPA Announces Plan To Require Disclosure of Secret Pesticide Ingredients"
"Reversing a decade-old decision, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it plans to require pesticide manufacturers to disclose to the public the inert ingredients in their products."
Source: EHN, 12/23/2009
"High Lead Levels in Office for Lead Prevention"
"Extremely high, potentially unhealthy levels of lead dust have been found in the Allegheny County Health Department's dilapidated office building in Lawrenceville that houses the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/21/2009
"Dreams Dashed on Contaminated Land"
City leaders celebrated the ground-breaking for New Bedford High School in 1970, apparently not knowing the risks of building it on a toxic dump.
Source: South Coast Today, 12/21/2009
"Toxic Flame Retardant Will Be Phased Out by 2014"
"The two U.S. producers of the toxic flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) ... and the largest U.S. importer of this chemical ... today announced commitments to phase out the chemical in the United States."
Source: ENS, 12/21/2009
"That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy"
"The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal."
Source: NYTimes, 12/17/2009
"Hispanic Farmworkers Seek Tighter Controls on Pesticide Use"
"Hispanic farmworkers in California poisoned by pesticides are demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exercise greater control over toxic substances used in agriculture."
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune, 12/15/2009
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