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"Mercury Found in Blood of One-Third of American Women"

"The level of inorganic mercury in the blood of American women has been increasing since 1999 and it is now found in the blood of one in three women, according to a new analysis of government data for more than 6,000 American women."

Source: ENS, 09/02/2009

"Pollution Study Targets Cigarette Waste in Tennessee"

A University of Tennessee at Chattanooga study shows that the metals and organic chemicals found in used cigarettes can leak out, contaminating water and killing microorganisms.

Source: AP, 08/31/2009

"New Culprit Seen in Ozone Depletion"

"Government scientists who study the depletion of Earth’s protective ozone layer are pointing to a previously unheralded culprit: nitrous oxide."

Source: NYTimes, 08/28/2009

"EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking"

"Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing."

Source: ProPublica, 08/27/2009

"An Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Repellent?"

One key chemical tool used to control mosquito-spread malaria in the developing world -- DDT -- has harmful environmental consequences. Now a new article in the journal Nature tells of research on chemicals that may promise to be effective mosquito repellants by blocking the insects' ability to detect carbon dioxide.

Source: NYTimes, 08/27/2009

"Cancer in Wildlife, Normally Rare, Can Signal Toxic Dangers"

"Wild animals normally are killed by cancer only in rare cases. But scientists are finding that some deadly cancers in animals--including Quebec's belugas, California sea lions and North Sea flounder--seem to be triggered or accelerated by environmental contaminants."

Source: EHN, 08/27/2009

"W.Va. Plant To Cut Storage of Deadly Chemical"

Bayer's plant at Institute, West Virginia, said that it would reduce by 80 percent its production of methyl isocyanate, the highly toxic chemical that killed thousands in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

Source: AP, 08/27/2009

"BPA Found in Supposedly Safe Swiss Water Bottles"

Until last August, the Swiss-made reusable aluminum bottles that were an eco-icon, were lined with an epoxy containing trace amounts of BPA, which the Canadian federal government considers a toxic substance.

Source: Canwest, 08/26/2009

"Lead-Laden Paint Still Widely Sold Around the World"

"Paint with dangerously high lead levels is still being sold for household use worldwide, putting hundreds of millions of young children at risk of permanent brain damage," new research shows.

Source: Reuters, 08/26/2009

A 'Near Miss' Disaster at Citgo's Corpus Christi Refinery

A July 19 fire at Citgo's Corpus Christi refinery released deadly hydrogen fluoride, maimed one worker, and threatened a poor, largely minority community at its fenceline. Now larger questions are being asked -- about how authorities responded to it and whether it could have been prevented.

Source: Texas Observer, 08/25/2009

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