"Dioxin Science Wars" Heat Up
"The latest skirmish in the decades-long scientific battle over the health risks of the most toxic form of dioxin is heating up."
Source: C&EN, 07/13/2010
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"West Nile Spraying Plan Angers West San Jose Neighborhood"
"It's shaping up to be an active season for West Nile virus in Santa Clara County. ... But plans for a Tuesday evening fogging have outraged many West San Jose residents, who fear the county's large-scale spraying does more harm than good."
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 07/12/2010
"Political Landmark For BPA Ban"
"When a [California] bill to ban a common plastic additive in feeding products for young children passed the Assembly on July 1, it marked a milestone in state legislative efforts to regulate bisphenol A."
Source: Contra Costa Times, 07/12/2010
"Lead-Poisoned Kids Left Untreated in Detroit"
"Detroit's anti-lead program -- beset with alleged shakedowns and bogus treatments, missing files, incompetence and mismanagement -- was upended last year after such scorching claims were reported in state and federal investigations." But efforts to reform it have left many lead-poisoned kids untreated and permanently damaged.
Source: Detroit Free Press, 07/09/2010
EPA Relies on Industry To Weigh Safety of Weedkiller in Drinking Water
"Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are using to assess the herbicide’s health risks, records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show. Many of these industry-funded studies, which largely support atrazine’s safety, have never been published or subjected to an independent scientific peer review."
Source: Huffington Post, 07/09/2010
"TXI To Shut Down Highest-Polluting Cement Kilns in Midlothian"
"TXI will permanently shut down its four oldest, highest-polluting cement kilns in Midlothian and will stop burning hazardous waste as fuel, the Dallas-based company said Tuesday."
Source: Dallas News, 07/08/2010
Illinois: "Toxic Sites Take Years, Decades To Clean Up"
When Ray Hott bought a strip of land in DeKalb, Illinois, he did not know that it had been contaminated by toxic chemicals from a gas plant a century before.
Source: Chicago Tribune, 07/06/2010
"Utah Study Points To Arsenic in Backyard Chickens"
"The use of roxarsone and other arsenic-based additives in poultry and swine feed is at the center of a national controversy."
Source: Salt Lake Tribune, 07/06/2010
"Minnesota Releases List of 1,755 Harmful Chemicals"
"The Minnesota Department of Health on Thursday released a list of hundreds of chemicals that pose a potential health risk. The state's list includes 1,755 substances, among them lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. But it also includes many other organic chemicals that include pesticides, flame retardants, dyes and other chemicals used in industry or found in consumer products."
Source: Minn. Pub. Radio, 07/02/2010
"Researchers Ask Canada To Ban Asbestos"
"An international group of researchers is renewing its call for a global ban on the mining and use of asbestos, a known cause of cancer they say is unsafe in any form."
Source: Reuters, 07/02/2010
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