Nitrate pollution of U.S. drinking water may cause up to 12,594 cases of cancer a year, according to a new peer-reviewed study by the Environmental Working Group.
Environment
Jun 11, 2019
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Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency ...
Environment
May 22, 2019
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In early 2018, a deputy assistant administrator in the EPA, Clint Woods, reached out to a Massachusetts toxicologist best known for pushing a public health standard suggesting that low levels of toxic chemicals and radiation ...
Environment
Feb 25, 2019
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On any given day, plumes of noxious smoke rise above the Agbogbloshie dump site in Ghana's capital, Accra.
Environment
Jan 5, 2019
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The Trump administration has targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not ...
Environment
Dec 28, 2018
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Since his days on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump has promised to roll back environmental regulations, boost the use of coal and pull out of the Paris climate agreement—and he's moving toward doing all those ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2018
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers pressed the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to act faster to bring more of the country's most hazardous industrial chemicals and substances under tighter regulation, saying ...
Environment
Sep 6, 2018
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From "Agent Orange" and DDT to genetically modified crops, Monsanto has long been associated with controversial chemicals, but a US court order for it to pay damages because one of its herbicides may cause cancer could open ...
Other
Aug 11, 2018
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A new Duke University-led study has found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers in 16 Indian states.
Environment
Jun 7, 2018
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While the city of Flint still recovers from a lead-tainted water crisis, Michigan is scrambling to combat potential health risks in other tap water that stem from chemicals long used in firefighting, waterproofing, carpeting ...
Environment
Dec 30, 2017
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