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Studies (multiple): Pesticides and poisons we live with that hurt us
The following articles discuss just how pervasive chemicals are in the environment and how it is affecting our health.
PA Scientists: The Toxic Chemicals Our Agency Won’t Regulate Are Definitely in Our Drinking Water. The study is here.
Roundup (glyphosate) ‘raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by […]
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Study: Exposure to Glyphosate-based herbicides raise the risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
This study shows how exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides and Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Meta-Analysis and Supporting Evidence. Roundup is dangerous and should be banned.
An article discusses HOW A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN CHILDREN. A decades-long […]
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DeSmogBlog
DeSmogBlog addresses the following:
How This Oil Refiners Group Rallied GOP Governors’ Support for Trump’s Rollback of Auto Standards
Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Amid High Waters, Permit Violations
Oregon Again a Battlefield for Fracked Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove LNG Terminal
Mining Director Ian Plimer Misrepresents […]
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A New Tactic In The War Against Plastic Waste
This article discusses a new tactic in the war against plastic waste. Try this: Write a list of every piece of plastic you touch in a day. The author did, but stopped counting at 56 items.
What’s the alternative? Is it feasible to persuade the wealthiest, most profitable corporations in the world […]
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Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
This article discusses Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate. An expanding petrochemical industry, thanks to fracked shale gas, could have big consequences for a warming planet.
The petrochemical industry anticipates spending a total of more than $200 billion on factories, pipelines […]
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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
This article discusses EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico. Unbelievable!!
Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into […]
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What Is Coal Ash and Why Is It Dangerous? And a Dam break in NC
The first article discusses what coal ash is and why it is so dangerous. The phrase “coal ash” made headlines this week after a dam on a lake at the site of a power plant in Wilmington, N.C., was breached, allowing the hazardous ash into a river that […]
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EPA to abandon restrictions against chemical linked to climate change
This article discusses how EPA is about to abandon restrictions against chemical linked to climate change.
The Trump administration is planning to do away with an Obama-era regulation that restricted a known greenhouse gas from being used as a refrigerant in household appliances.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) late Wednesday announced it’s […]
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METABOLIC DISRUPTING POTENTIAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS OPERATION CHEMICALS AND MIXTURES
This blog discusses how the chemicals used in fracking cause significant health problems for people.
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Pipeline Exploded – Part of Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network
This article discusses a recent pipeline explosion in Pennsylvania.
A column of fire shot 150 feet in the air and destroyed a home, a barn, and several cars. Residents of over two dozen homes, including Belczyk, were evacuated, with one family barely escaping the flames that engulfed their home, […]
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