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Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies
This Environmental Health News article discusses how willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies. EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings. A year-long investigation by Environmental Health News finds that the U.S. Food and Drug […]
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EPA finalizes $72M cleanup plan for S. Jersey Superfund site. Sierra Club calls it a ‘Band-Aid.’
This article discusses the EPA $72M cleanup plan for S. Jersey Superfund site. Sierra Club calls it a ‘Band-Aid.’
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a $72 million cleanup plan for the Matteo & Sons Superfund site in Gloucester County, but New Jersey’s Sierra Club chapter is […]
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Great Barrier Reef: scientists find high levels of pesticides and blast chemical regulator
This The Guardian article discusses corals in the Great Barrier Reef: scientists find high levels of pesticides and blast chemical regulator. Pesticides found in reef catchment include Atrazine, a herbicide banned in 60 countries.
Leading marine scientists have detailed a litany of “serious deficiencies” by Australia’s chemical regulator that have […]
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Study: Fishery collapse ‘confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy’
This The Guardian article discusses how common pesticides have been found to starve fish ‘astoundingly fast’ by killing aquatic insects.
The research is the first to reveal the knock-on effects of insecticides on fish. Harm to bees is well known, but previous studies in Europe have […]
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Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse
This ProPublica article discusses Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” where toxic air is about to get worse. Air quality has improved for decades across the U.S., but Louisiana is backsliding. Our analysis found that a crush of new industrial plants will increase concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals in predominantly black and poor communities.
Though […]
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Study: Environmental Health News, October 31, 2019 – Children’s Health Issues
This Environmental Health News email discusses children’s health issues from: air and water pollution, artificial turf, lead pipes, PFAS contamination, smoking, asbestos, wood fires, and a study on e-cigarette waste.
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After my daughter’s cancer diagnosis, I helped discover our town is a cancer hot spot.
This USA Today opinion piece discusses a North Carolina activist’s crusade to stop the spread of cancer in children in her town.
After two years of painful headaches, body temperature problems, weight fluctuations and constant fatigue, my 16-year-old daughter, Taylor, was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer on June 28, […]
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Above the Fold & Daily Climate Weekend Reader
For the week ending September 29, articles include a discussion of air travel-related emissions, weedkiller-infused coffee beans, plastics, a report on PFAS contamination of California drinking water, California water shortages, a second look at a devastating bird loss study, climate change in the Arctic, and salmon and […]
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Bee-killing Neonicotinoids build up in the environment.
This FoodTank article discusses a study that shows bee-killing Neonicotinoids build up in the environment.
Insects are our professors of agriculture, guiding organic farmers like me in maintaining a healthy farm ecosystem. That is why I am so concerned about the overuse of toxic pesticides and the massive insect die-offs
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Study: Insect ‘apocalypse’ in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
This National Geographic article discusses why insects are being driven to extinction. Insect ‘apocalypse’ in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides. Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.
America’s agricultural […]
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