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"Insecticide 'Unacceptable' Danger To Bees, Report Finds"

"The world's most widely used insecticide has for the first time been officially labelled an 'unacceptable' danger to bees feeding on flowering crops. Environmental campaigners say the conclusion, by Europe's leading food safety authority, sounds the 'death knell' for the insect nerve agent."

Source: Guardian, 01/17/2013

"Passengers on India's 'Cancer Train' Share Stories of Pain and Hope"

"Every night, hundreds of cancer patients from the farming region of southern Punjab huddle together with their families in an overnight train journey to the nearest cancer hospital, 220 miles away. ... The patients travel from the fertile farming areas of the northern state of Punjab, a region that reports an alarmingly high use of pesticides."

Source: Wash Post, 01/03/2013

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

"The Problem Is Clear: The Water Is Filthy"

"Seville, with a population of about 300, is one of dozens of predominantly Latino unincorporated communities in the Central Valley plagued for decades by contaminated drinking water."

Source: NY Times, 11/14/2012

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