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EPA Relies on Industry To Weigh Safety of Weedkiller in Drinking Water

"Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are using to assess the herbicide’s health risks, records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show. Many of these industry-funded studies, which largely support atrazine’s safety, have never been published or subjected to an independent scientific peer review."

Source: Huffington Post, 07/09/2010

"TXI To Shut Down Highest-Polluting Cement Kilns in Midlothian"

"TXI will permanently shut down its four oldest, highest-polluting cement kilns in Midlothian and will stop burning hazardous waste as fuel, the Dallas-based company said Tuesday."

Source: Dallas News, 07/08/2010

Illinois: "Toxic Sites Take Years, Decades To Clean Up"

When Ray Hott bought a strip of land in DeKalb, Illinois, he did not know that it had been contaminated by toxic chemicals from a gas plant a century before.

Source: Chicago Tribune, 07/06/2010

"Utah Study Points To Arsenic in Backyard Chickens"

"The use of roxarsone and other arsenic-based additives in poultry and swine feed is at the center of a national controversy."

Source: Salt Lake Tribune, 07/06/2010

"Minnesota Releases List of 1,755 Harmful Chemicals"

"The Minnesota Department of Health on Thursday released a list of hundreds of chemicals that pose a potential health risk. The state's list includes 1,755 substances, among them lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. But it also includes many other organic chemicals that include pesticides, flame retardants, dyes and other chemicals used in industry or found in consumer products."

Source: Minn. Pub. Radio, 07/02/2010

"Researchers Ask Canada To Ban Asbestos"

"An international group of researchers is renewing its call for a global ban on the mining and use of asbestos, a known cause of cancer they say is unsafe in any form."

Source: Reuters, 07/02/2010

"EPA Says More Testing Needed To Know Dispersants' Impacts"

"The first round of government tests of the chemical dispersants that are being used to break up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico found they aren't overly damaging to shrimp and small fish, but more tests are needed to determine what happens when they're mixed with oil."

Source: McClatchy, 07/01/2010

"Warning About Strawberry Field Chemical Ignored, Scientists Say"

"California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical called methyl iodide for the state's coastal strawberry fields, allowing levels of exposure that the state's own experts say will put farmworkers and bystanders at risk."

Source: California Watch, 06/30/2010

"Enviro Group Sues to Force BPA Ban in Food Packaging"

"A leading environmental group filed a court challenge today to the Food and Drug Administration's handling of bisphenol A, aiming to force the agency to act on a 20-month-old request to bar the controversial chemical from food packaging."

Source: Greenwire, 06/30/2010

"Potentially Harmful Chemicals Used in Pa. Drilling"

"Compounds associated with neurological problems, cancer and other serious health effects are among the chemicals being used to drill natural gas wells in Pennsylvania, although state and industry officials said Monday the practice is not polluting drinking water."

Source: AP, 06/29/2010

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