Feinstein, Boxer Urge Delay on Expanding Central Valley Landfill
"The senators seek a moratorium on the facility's growth until investigations into birth defects in Kettleman City are completed."
Source: LA Times, 02/11/2010
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"EPA Reviews Hints of Weed Killer's Fetal Risks"
EPA is reopening its review of the possible health effects of the widespread herbicide atrazine. A new focus is on several studies linking the hormone-mimicking weedkiller to birth defects and other risks in newborns.
Source: Science News, 02/05/2010
"EPA Faces Lawsuits Over Pesticide Harms, Soot"
"The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity has put the U.S. EPA on notice that it intends to sue the agency for failing to adequately evaluate and regulate nearly 400 pesticides harmful to hundreds of endangered species across the country as well as human beings."
Source: ENS, 02/03/2010
"Red, White or Green? Calif. Wine Choices Expand"
"Consumers of California wine easily can tell a red cabernet from a white chardonnay, and soon they will have a tool to determine whether it's green."
Source: AP, 01/15/2010
"Stronger Controls Urged on Chemicals in Water"
"Citing the decline in frogs and rise of "frankenfish," a Bay Area environmental group filed a legal petition Monday for tighter federal standards on pollutants that disrupt the hormones of humans and wildlife."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 01/13/2010
"Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit"
"In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics."
Source: YaleE360, 01/11/2010
"Organic ... or Not"
"These foods are not always what consumers think they are. Some are not chemical or pesticide free. Health benefits are questionable. Only certain thing? They cost more."
Source: Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal, 01/05/2010
"Hispanic Farmworkers Seek Tighter Controls on Pesticide Use"
"Hispanic farmworkers in California poisoned by pesticides are demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exercise greater control over toxic substances used in agriculture."
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune, 12/15/2009
"Bhopal: the Victims Are Still Being Born"
"Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial."
Source: Independent, 12/01/2009
"African Dust Bringing Toxic Chemicals to U.S., Caribbean"
"Pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls are among the contaminants hitching an airborne ride to the United States and other parts of the Western Hemisphere on dust storms blowing out of West Africa. That's according to new research presented at the just-completed annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry."
Source: Dateline Earth, 11/25/2009
