"Chlorine Trains Pose an Even Deadlier Threat Than Oil Trains"
"A new report finds the railroad cars that transport the toxic gas around the United States are vulnerable to accidents and sabotage."
Source: takepart, 02/09/2016
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"Bayer Rejects EPA Request To Pull Insecticide From U.S. Market"
"The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG said on Friday it will fight a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request to pull one of its insecticides from the marketplace amid concerns that it could harm organisms in streams and ponds."
Source: Reuters, 02/08/2016
"Review Reveals Problems Protecting Workers From Pesticides"
"BELLE GLADE, Fla. — Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings."
Source: AP, 02/04/2016
"An Industrial Chemical Finds Its Way Into Great Lakes Trout"
"An industrial chemical is showing up in trout from the Great Lakes. It’s called perfluoro-1-butane sulfonamide, or FBSA."
Source: Michigan Radio, 02/03/2016
"Are Bee-Killing Pesticides Impacting Our Health?"
"What do we know about the human health effects of neonicotinoids? Astonishingly little. Here’s why scientists say that isn’t good enough."
Source: Civil Eats, 02/03/2016
"Sentencings Set for Ex-Execs in West Virginia Chemical Spill"
"Two years after thousands of gallons of a coal-cleaning agent leaked into the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians, the sentencings of six officials at a chemical distributor this month will bring to a close criminal cases in the spill."
Source: AP, 02/01/2016
"Restoring Prairie On The Great Plains"
"From the air, the Midwest looks like a patchwork of cropland and pastures. But before the land was turned over to plows and center pivots, most of it was a sea of grass."
Source: Harvest Public Media, 01/29/2016
"Hoosick Falls: Getting By With Contaminated Water"
"Even before state officials designated the village a Superfund site late Wednesday afternoon, residents of Hoosick Falls have been waiting for a solution to their water contamination issue."
Source: WAMC, 01/28/2016
"Top Canada Watchdog Worried About Pesticide Linked To Bee Deaths"
"Canada's official environmental watchdog on Tuesday expressed concern that authorities were allowing the long-term use of pesticides linked to bee deaths despite not having enough information about the products."
Source: Reuters, 01/27/2016
"In New York Village, A Trail Of Cancer Leads To Tap Water"
"HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — After his factory worker father died a painful death from kidney cancer at age 68 in 2013, Michael Hickey made it his mission to find out why so many people in his hometown along the Hoosic River were getting sick."
Source: AP, 01/26/2016
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