Environmental Justice For Indigenous People In Canada’s Chemical Valley
"Home is both refuge and prison for citizens of Canada’s Chemical Valley."
Source: EHN, 10/10/2016
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World Aims To Curb Planet-Warming HFCs This Week
World environmental leaders gather in Kigali, Rwanda, October 10-14 in an effort to finalize an agreement on limiting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), gases used as refrigerants that also boost greenhouse warming.
Source: ClimateWire, 10/10/2016
"California Tightens Rule On Popular Pesticide, Citing Health"
"California will tighten rules on how much farmers can use a common pesticide listed by the nation's most productive agricultural state as a chemical known to cause cancer, regulators said Thursday."
Source: AP, 10/07/2016
Activists Warn That Toxic PCBs Contaminate Thousands Of U.S. Schools
"Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are industrial chemicals so toxic that Congress banned them 40 years ago. Research has shown that they can cause a range of health concerns, including cancer and neurological problems such as decreased IQ. And yet, because they were commonly used in building materials for decades, they continue to contaminate classrooms in between 13,000 and 26,000 schools nationwide, according to Harvard researchers."
Source: Wash Post, 10/06/2016
E. Chicago Residents Fleeing Lead Contamination Find Few Housing Options
"For Nayesa Walker, the clock started ticking just over a month ago. On Sept. 1, she was given 60 days to find a new home after East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland abruptly announced that the public housing complex where she and her three children live would be demolished. The land is contaminated with lead and arsenic."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 10/05/2016
Canadian Farmers, Anti-GMO Groups Urge Review Of Monsanto Deal
"A Canadian farming federation and an anti-GMO network are separately calling on the federal Competition Bureau to review the possible implications of Bayer's $66 billion US takeover of seed giant Monsanto."
Source: CBC News, 09/30/2016
"2014 W.Va. Chemical Spill Report Leaves Questions Unanswered"
"The Chemical Safety Board brought voted Wednesday evening to approve the final report and recommendations that were the result of a more than two and a half year investigation into a Charleston chemical leak."
Source: W. Va. Public Broadcasting, 09/29/2016
"Farming Mega-Mergers Threaten Food Security, Say Campaigners"
"Deals would put the majority of seeds, chemicals and GM traits in the hands of three companies, deepening poverty for small-scale farmers".
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2016
"100 Countries Push To Phase Out Potentially Disastrous Greenhouse Gas"
"A loose coalition of more than 100 countries, including the US and European nations, is pushing for an early phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a powerful greenhouse gas that if left unchecked is set to add a potentially disastrous 0.5C to global temperatures by the end of the century."
Source: Guardian, 09/26/2016
"Deadly Pathogens Repeatedly Dispatched By U.S. Labs To Unsecure Sites"
"The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say".
Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 09/23/2016
