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"Regulation of Chemical Industry Is Haphazard, Ineffective"

"WASHINGTON -- Eighteen years after a domestic terrorist murdered 168 people in Oklahoma City with an ammonia nitrate bomb, the federal government and the chemical industry are still jockeying over how to regulate a volatile and plentiful fertilizer that contributed to the devastating plant explosion in West.

At least five federal agencies enforce a patchwork of overlapping and sometimes conflicting regulation of chemical plants. The system is reliant on voluntary reporting by industry, and by nature is largely reactive to complaints or catastrophes.

Source: Hearst, 04/29/2013

"Bee-Harming Pesticides Banned in Europe"

"EU member states vote in favour of continent-wide suspension of neonicotinoid pesticides."

Source: Guardian, 04/29/2013

"Texas Town’s Blast Crater Shows Risk From Patchwork Zoning Laws"

"With two schools near a plant storing ammonium nitrate -- the fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing -- West, Texas, Superintendent Marty Crawford said he had always worried about an explosion like the one that happened last week."

Source: Bloomberg, 04/26/2013

"U.S. GMO Food Labeling Drive Has Biotech Industry Biting Back"

"New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, have struck a nerve with biotech crop developers who say they are rushing to roll out a broad strategy to combat consumer concerns about their products."

Source: Reuters, 04/26/2013

USDA Poised to OK Chicken-Plant Speedups Increasing Risky Chemicals

The Agriculture Department is poised to approve an increase in line speeds at poultry processing plants. That is likely to mean increased use of toxic, bacteria-killing chemicals which have harmed some workers.

Source: Wash Post, 04/26/2013

"Watchdogs Warned of Chemical-Plant Oversight Before Blast"

"In the months before last week's deadly fertilizer plant explosion in Texas, U.S. government watchdogs criticized federal oversight of facilities that make or store dangerous chemicals."

Source: Bloomberg, 04/24/2013

800 Love Canals: "Toxic Legacy's Time Bomb"

"Nearly 800 hazardous waste sites are located in Erie, Niagara and Cattaraugus counties, and the majority of them are a threat to the largest source of fresh water in the world – the Great Lakes."

Source: Buffalo News, 04/23/2013

"EPA Probes Flame Retardants But Lacks Power To Ban"

"As the Obama administration launches a broad investigation of flame retardants used in furniture and other household goods, the nation's top environmental regulators are running into the limitations of a federal law that makes it practically impossible to ban hazardous chemicals."

Source: Chicago Tribune, 04/23/2013

Watchdog Reports Health Problems From Dispersant Use During BP Spill

"WASHINGTON -- Cleanup workers, doctors, divers and Gulf Coast residents interviewed by a Washington watchdog group have reported health problems from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including blood in the urine, heart palpitations, kidney and liver damage, migraines, memory loss and reduced IQ."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/22/2013

"Beekeeping -- Rural Greece Does It Best"

Beekeepers in the remote hills of southern Greece are not seeing colony collapse disorder in their hives. The reason may be that the bees are not exposed to pesticides.

Source: AFP, 04/22/2013

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