Frackers Use Loophole To Avoid Permits for Dangerous Chemicals: Report
"Federal laws meant to protect drinking water require fracking companies to get a permit before using diesel fuel in the drilling process."
Source: Columbus Dispatch, 10/23/2014
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"EPA Starts MCHM Air Testing, But Lacks Adequate Data"
"Federal regulators on Friday unveiled a program to monitor air quality during the remaining cleanup at the Freedom Industries facility along the Elk River in Charleston, but they said their effort suffers from the same lack of data about potential health efforts of the chemical MCHM as did testing of the region’s drinking-water supply after the Jan. 9 leak."
Source: Charleston Gazette, 10/22/2014
"U.S. Revisiting 'Broken' Workplace Chemicals Regulation Process"
"The U.S. government will soon begin receiving public suggestions on how federal regulators should update their oversight of toxic chemicals in the workplace."
Source: IPS, 10/22/2014
"The Secret Chemicals in Perfume Are About To Be Unbottled"
"SC Johnson will be the first large company to disclose all fragrance ingredients in products. Could this be the end of trade-secret protection for the fragrance industry? "
Source: Guardian, 10/16/2014
"New GMOs Get A Regulatory Green Light, With A Hint Of Yellow"
"Government regulators have approved a new generation of genetically engineered corn and soybeans. They're the latest weapon in an arms race between farmers and weeds, and the government's green light is provoking angry opposition from environmentalists."
Source: NPR, 10/16/2014
"Liquid Nicotine Exposures Up Sharply Among Kids"
"Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine that gives hand-held vaporizing gadgets their kick also has spiked."
Source: AP, 10/15/2014
"The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons"
"From 2004 to 2011, American and Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and at times were wounded by, chemical weapons that were hidden or abandoned years earlier."
Source: NY Times, 10/15/2014
BPA in Air: Manufacturing Plants in Ohio, Indiana, Texas Top Emitters
"As concerns mount over people’s exposure to the plasticizer bisphenol A in everyday products, it’s also contaminating the air near manufacturing plants: U.S. companies emitted about 26 tons of the hormone-disrupting compound in 2013."
Source: EHN, 10/14/2014
"When It Comes To Food Packaging, What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us"
"Recent analyses raise disturbing questions about the health and environmental effects of the stuff that encases our edibles."
Source: Ensia, 10/14/2014
"How Safe Is the Artificial Turf Your Child Plays On?"
"Soccer coach Amy Griffin was in a Seattle hospital visiting a young goalie who was receiving chemotherapy when a nurse said something that made the hair on Griffin’s neck stand up."
Source: NBC News, 10/09/2014
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