Kids Poisoned By Lead In Homes Approved By D.C. Housing Inspectors
"Chanelle Mattocks remembers everything about that night in 2014, when lead poisoned her son."
Source: Washington Post, 08/17/2018
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"Monsanto Verdict Could Trigger Landslide of Litigation Over Roundup"
"Last week’s huge jury award against Monsanto Co. over its popular weed killers Roundup and Ranger Pro could boost litigation from others claiming their use of the products harmed them."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/17/2018
Report Finds Traces of Glyphosate Herbicide in Cheerios and Quaker Oats
"An environmental research and advocacy group has found traces of a controversial herbicide in Cheerios, Quaker Oats and other breakfast foods that it says could increase cancer risk for children."
Source: NY Times, 08/16/2018
PFAS Investigation Expands To 55 Residential Wells In Richland Township
"RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, MI-- After a number of wells were found with high levels of PFAS, an investigation is being expanded to include nearly double the amount of wells initially tested in Richland Township, the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department said."
Source: MLive, 08/14/2018
Germany Aims To End Use Of Glyphosate For 3 Years: Spokesman
"Use of glyphoste-based weed-killers should be halted during the current legislative period which ends in three years, a spokesman for the German environment ministry said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 08/14/2018
Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289 Million In World's 1st Roundup Cancer Trial
"A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages."
Source: Reuters, 08/13/2018
"Marine Mammals Have Lost a Gene That Now They May Desperately Need"
"Dolphins, manatees, sea lions, elephant seals and other animals no longer produce an enzyme that protects land mammals against harmful chemicals, including some pesticides."
Source: NY Times, 08/10/2018
Court Orders EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Hazard to Kids's Health
"A federal appeals court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to bar within 60 days a widely used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children, dealing the industry a major blow after it had successfully lobbied the Trump administration to reject a ban."
Source: NY Times, 08/10/2018
"Dimming Sunlight To Slow Global Warming May Harm Crop Yields: Study"
"Spraying a veil of sun-dimming chemicals high above the Earth to slow global warming could harm crop yields in an unintended side-effect of turning down the heat, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 08/09/2018
"Trump Administration Faces Lawsuit Over Pesticides In Wildlife Refuges"
"Conservationists on Wednesday notified the Trump administration that they would sue over its reversal of a 2014 decision prohibiting bee-killing pesticides and genetically modified crops on U.S. wildlife refuges."
Source: Reuters, 08/09/2018
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