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"Fajardo's Fight: Taking on Big Oil"

Pablo Fajardo is the David to the oil Goliath Chevron Texaco. He represents about 30,000 Ecuadorians in a class action suit trying to clean up the oily mess in their part of the Amazon. The case, filed in 1993, goes back as far as 1964, when the U.S. company Texaco began oil exploration there. The suit alleges that Texaco dumped 18.5 billion gallons of 'produced water' -- which can contain dissolved inorganic salts, dispersed oil droplets and dissolved oil; treatment and workover chemicals; dissolved gases, particularly hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide; and bacteria and other living organisms.

Source: Eugene Weekly, 08/17/2009

"Refining Chemical Cause of Concern"

"CORPUS CHRISTI -- A fire last month at a local Citgo refinery has focused attention on what is likely the most dangerous chemical used in the refining process."

Source: Corpus Christi Caller, 08/17/2009

"Selenium Suspected in Cattle Deaths Near Idaho Mine"

"Eighteen cattle likely died of selenium poisoning near a southeastern Idaho phosphate mine, the latest livestock deaths in a region rich in phosphates where a legacy of pollution has killed horses and hundreds of sheep since the 1990s."

Source: AP, 08/17/2009

BC Parents Seek Ban on Spraying Pesticides on School Playing Fields

"A Vernon parent is wondering why school playing fields are still being sprayed with pesticides as communities across the country have discontinued using chemicals to control weeds."

Source: Vernon Morning Star, 08/17/2009

"A Gritty Problem: New Bedford Built Schools, Homes on Old Dump"

The redevelopment of a New Bedford waste dump raises toxic threats to homes, schools, and churches.

Source: Boston Globe, 08/17/2009

"A Drifting Danger for Central Valley Schoolchildren"

"Despite regulations and laws to protect children, Fresno County authorities say school buses are still being exposed to pesticide clouds once or twice a year."

Source: LA Times, 08/17/2009

"Sacramento Judge Tentatively Rules Against Bid To List Styrene as Carcinogenic"

"A Sacramento judge sided with the styrene industry and against state environmental officials on Wednesday in ruling that the chemical doesn't have to be listed under Proposition 65 as a cause of cancer."

Source: Sacramento Bee, 08/14/2009

"Battle Over Chemical Used to Make Non-Stick Pans Heats Up"

DuPont will try to persuade New Jersey state drinking water regulators to go easy on cleanups of PFOA, a chemical used in non-stick pans -- even before the regulators hear scientific evidence from their own scientists.

Source: ENS, 08/07/2009

"Tougher U.S. Lead Paint Law May Not Protect Americans"

"Companies on three continents continue to make and sell consumer paints that contain dangerous levels of lead despite the availability of technology to produce high-quality, low lead paint. A tougher lead paint standard takes effect in the United States later this month, but imported consumer goods may still contain hazardous amounts of lead paint."

Source: AP, 08/06/2009

Industry, Enviros Agree on Rewriting Toxics Control Act

Both environmentalists and the chemical industry say they want Congress to overhaul the key law aimed at protecting Americans from toxic chemicals in the products they use.

Source: USA TODAY, 08/05/2009

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