Pesticide Studies Won EPA Trust, Until Trump Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’
"Backed by agrochemical companies, the current administration and Congress are moving to curb the role of human health studies in regulation."
Source: NY Times, 08/27/2018
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"Is Your Water Safe? Harmful Chemical Found In Many Michigan Systems"
"Hundreds of municipal water supplies throughout Michigan may have unsafe levels of an emerging, persistent chemical compound once used in nonstick surfaces. But the State of Michigan, critics contend, is using outdated measuring criteria — meaning hundreds of communities have levels of the chemical that Michigan says are safe, but other studies show may be harmful."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 08/24/2018
"EPA: Agency Follows Industry Playbook To Attack Science"
"The Trump administration is assailing the science behind an influential study that helped lead to a ban on a widely used insecticide linked to brain damage in children, mirroring arguments made by the pesticide industry."
Source: Greenwire, 08/24/2018
"Bayer's Monsanto Faces 8,000 Lawsuits On Glyphosate"
"The number of U.S. lawsuits brought against Bayer’s newly acquired Monsanto has jumped to about 8,000, as the German drugmaker braces for years of legal wrangling over alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers."
Source: Reuters, 08/24/2018
"A Story Behind The Monsanto Cancer Trial — Journal Sits On Retraction"
"What "ghostwriting" by Monsanto means, how it has influenced, and still is influencing, material found in peer-reviewed scientific journals".
Source: EHN, 08/22/2018
"What Happened at Camp Lejeune"
"I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate."
Source: Pacific Standard, 08/22/2018
W Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton Fields
"On the High Plains in West Texas, hot winds blast through cotton fields as far as the eye can see. In the middle of it all is a tiny vineyard."
Source: NPR, 08/21/2018
"Walmart To Shed Solvents Linked To Deaths, Birth Defects"
"Walmart Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will stop selling paint strippers containing a solvent linked to more than a dozen deaths and a second solvent that could harm the development of babies in the womb."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/21/2018
Trump Keeps Trying To Kill Agency That Probes Chemical Plant Disasters
"On a warm morning in April, workers at a Wisconsin oil refinery were conducting a routine shutdown for maintenance. Suddenly, a gasoline cracking unit exploded, and the workers watched in horror as a huge fireball ripped through the plant. They ran for their lives, barely escaping the blast."
Source: Reveal, 08/20/2018
"Chemicals: Court Torpedoes Trump EPA Bid To Delay Safety Standards"
"In another major court loss for the Trump administration, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today [Friday] tossed out a rule delaying Obama-era safety standards for chemical facilities."
Source: Greenwire, 08/20/2018
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