"Review Reveals Problems Protecting Workers From Pesticides"
"BELLE GLADE, Fla. — Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings."
Source: AP, 02/04/2016
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"An Industrial Chemical Finds Its Way Into Great Lakes Trout"
"An industrial chemical is showing up in trout from the Great Lakes. It’s called perfluoro-1-butane sulfonamide, or FBSA."
Source: Michigan Radio, 02/03/2016
"Are Bee-Killing Pesticides Impacting Our Health?"
"What do we know about the human health effects of neonicotinoids? Astonishingly little. Here’s why scientists say that isn’t good enough."
Source: Civil Eats, 02/03/2016
"Sentencings Set for Ex-Execs in West Virginia Chemical Spill"
"Two years after thousands of gallons of a coal-cleaning agent leaked into the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians, the sentencings of six officials at a chemical distributor this month will bring to a close criminal cases in the spill."
Source: AP, 02/01/2016
"Restoring Prairie On The Great Plains"
"From the air, the Midwest looks like a patchwork of cropland and pastures. But before the land was turned over to plows and center pivots, most of it was a sea of grass."
Source: Harvest Public Media, 01/29/2016
"Hoosick Falls: Getting By With Contaminated Water"
"Even before state officials designated the village a Superfund site late Wednesday afternoon, residents of Hoosick Falls have been waiting for a solution to their water contamination issue."
Source: WAMC, 01/28/2016
"Top Canada Watchdog Worried About Pesticide Linked To Bee Deaths"
"Canada's official environmental watchdog on Tuesday expressed concern that authorities were allowing the long-term use of pesticides linked to bee deaths despite not having enough information about the products."
Source: Reuters, 01/27/2016
"In New York Village, A Trail Of Cancer Leads To Tap Water"
"HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — After his factory worker father died a painful death from kidney cancer at age 68 in 2013, Michael Hickey made it his mission to find out why so many people in his hometown along the Hoosic River were getting sick."
Source: AP, 01/26/2016
As Wash. Mulls Stronger Toxics Law, Residents Breathe Flame Retardants
"A new generation of chemicals added to furniture, building insulation and baby products like car seats to slow the spread of flames are escaping into air at higher levels than previously thought, according to a new study out of Washington state."
Source: EHN, 01/25/2016
"Monsanto Sues To Keep Herbicide Off California List Of Carcinogens"
"Monsanto Co stepped up its defense of a widely used weed killer on Thursday by filing a lawsuit in California seeking to prevent glyphosate, the main ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, from being added to the state's list of known carcinogens."
Source: Reuters, 01/25/2016
