"On Anacostia, Some Don't Catch Tainted-Fish Warning"
Many anglers who pull fish out of the Anacostia River near Washington, DC, eat them despire health warnings.
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"Paper Links Nerve Agents in ’91 Gulf War and Ailments"
"Reviving a 20-year debate over illnesses of veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, a new scientific paper presents evidence that nerve agents released by the bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons depots just before the ground war began could have carried downwind and fallen on American troops staged in Saudi Arabia."
Source: NY Times, 12/14/2012
"France Bans Contested Chemical BPA in Food Packaging"
"PARIS -- The French parliament voted Thursday to ban the use of bisphenol A, a chemical thought to have a toxic effect on the brain and nervous system, in baby food packaging next year and all food containers in 2015."
Source: AFP, 12/14/2012
"Doctors Urge U.S. to Block Gas Export Terminals"
"More than 100 physicians urged the Obama administration on Thursday not to approve the construction of liquefied natural gas export terminals until more is known about the health effects of hydraulic fracturing, the drilling process that has opened the way for a big increase in domestic gas production."
Source: Green/NYT, 12/14/2012
"EPA Finds Contamination at Former Rocket Test Site"
"SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Lingering radioactive contamination exists at a former rocket test lab outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a partial nuclear meltdown, federal environmental regulators said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 12/13/2012
EPA Starts New Effort for Low-Dose, Hormone-Like Chemicals
"Spurred by mounting scientific evidence, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a new effort to examine whether low doses of hormone-mimicking chemicals are harming human health and whether chemical testing should be overhauled."
Source: EHN, 12/13/2012
"Officials Call for Limits on Use of Super-Toxic Rat Poison"
"D-CON kills rats and mice, the label reads. And, according to state and federal officials, it can kill hawks, owls, eagles, foxes, bobcats, mountain lions and other non-targeted wildlife too."
Source: LA Times, 12/13/2012
"Drink Ingredient Gets a Look"
Brominated vegetable oil, an ingredient in many commercial drinks, may have harmful health effects. But a loophole in the law allows its health effects to go unevaluated, grandfathering it and many other ingredients in as "generally recognized as safe."
Source: NY Times, 12/13/2012
"If Mercury Pollution Knows No Borders, Neither Can Its Solution"
Negotiations over an international treaty to combat mercury emissions will reach a climax next month in Geneva.
Source: NY Times, 12/12/2012
"Markey Asks FDA To Investigate Hair Straightening Products"
"Representative Edward Markey and some of his congressional colleagues are imploring the US Food and Drug Administration to investigate hair straightening treatments, such as the popular Brazilian Blowout, that contain formaldehyde, a carcinogen. ..."
Source: Boston Globe, 12/12/2012
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