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Sip 'n' Skip California won't ban BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups		19 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:58 PM on 19 Aug 2008 With 22 legislators abstaining, the California Assembly voted 31-27 Monday not to ban chemical bisphenol A in baby products. BPA is one of those things you'd like to keep out of your kid; the bill would have banned it from bottles, sippy cups, and other containers for tots. Legislators also voted 36-33 (with 11 abstentions) against a bill that would have banned equally icky chemical PFOA from food ...
Topics: California, food, green living, health, legislation, news, parenting, politics, state politics, toxics (all these topics)

The Department of Defense (of itself) DOD slows condemning research into its polluting behavior	Liz Borkowski	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Back in April, a Government Accountability Office report explained how the White House Office of Management and Budget was holding up the EPA's Integrated Risk Information System assessments. According to GAO, the OMB started requiring an 'interagency review' process allowing agencies that might be affected by the IRIS assessments to provide comments on the documents. As a result, some of these outside agencies can effectively block completion of IRIS assessments, whi ...
Topics: climate, Department of Defense, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Health Bent EPA chemical-review process sucks, says GAO		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:32 PM on 29 Apr 2008 U.S. EPA reviews of the health risks posed by ubiquitous chemicals are hampered by extensive nonscientist involvement, says a report from the Government Accountability Office. The EPA review process, rejiggered by the White House in 2004, is cloaked in secrecy, causes years of delay, and has lost credibility, the GAO says. The Defense Department, Energy Department, and NASA, all of which have a vested inter ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, health, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ew, Toxins Again? U.S. health agency says ubiquitous chemical may harm kiddos		16 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:24 PM on 16 Apr 2008 A U.S. federal agency has declared that there is "some concern" that chemical bisphenol A can harm the development of children's brains and reproductive systems. The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, issued a draft report following up on an 18-month review of BPA. The agency reported more concern than was suggested by its advisory panel, ...
Topics: food, green living, health, news, parenting, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Bisphenol, Eh? Health Canada primed to declare bisphenol A toxic		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Canada's health department is expected to become the first regulatory body ever to declare chemical bisphenol A a toxic substance that humans should reduce their exposure to. BPA shows up in (and leaches from) hard plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and other containers that consumers regularly eat and drink from. The chemical, which has been linked to reproductive anomalies, has come under some ...
Topics: Canada, food, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Fish tales NYT satire gives candidates' alleged responses to the fish 'n' mercury issue	Sarah K. Burkhalter	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times has a pretty funny satirical article up about candidates' alleged responses to reports of high mercury content in New Yawk tuna sushi. Obama: 'Unlike other candidates, I have been saying since 2002 that we were headed down a disastrous road with our sushi policy. But what we need now is a president who will not use this crisis just to scare up votes. We need a president who can get past the tired, old partisan divisions that pit one kind of ...
Topics: elections, fishing, funnies, health, mercury, oceans, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics)

Patty Ache Asbestos legislation watered down, disappointing activists		06 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:08 PM on 06 Nov 2007 Public-health advocates who in June praised legislation to ban asbestos now say the version passed by the Senate last month was watered down so significantly that they no longer support it. Thanks in large part to industry lobbying, many products containing cancer-causing asbestos wouldn't be banned under the new version of the bill. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who has labored for years to ge ...
Topics: health, legislation, news, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

The Age of Ban Senate passes asbestos ban, Democrats want to rid toys of lead		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:38 PM on 05 Oct 2007 Hey, you with the asbestos-contaminated attic: The Senate has unanimously passed a measure to ban importation, manufacture, processing, and distribution of products containing asbestos. Forty other nations have already banned the cancer-causing mineral, which is found in more than 3,000 consumer products in the U.S. Speaking of things that should have happened a long time ago, Democrat ...
Topics: green living, health, legislation, news, parenting, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

BPA: Here to Stay? Controversial panel will decide whether bisphenol A poses a health risk		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
BPA: Here to Stay? Controversial panel will decide whether bisphenol A poses a health risk Last week, several dozen scientists issued a consensus statement that ubiquitous chemical compound bisphenol A likely poses health and reproductive risks to humans. This week, an expert panel will finalize a report for the U.S. National Toxicology Program on whether humans should indeed try to stay away from BPA; ...
Topics: health, news, politics, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Meany in a Bottle Baby bottles found to leak chemicals, California may ban them		01 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Meany in a Bottle Baby bottles found to leak chemicals, California may ban them Most parents discourage their kiddos from ingesting known toxics, so a new study from green group Environment California is a bit of a bummer: when run through a simulated dishwasher 50 to 75 times, name-brand baby bottles leach the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in levels that have caused reproductive abno ...
Topics: California, green living, health, news, parenting, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Here We Go Again Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Justice in Time Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate		08 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate An epic drama is playing out in the U.S. Capitol over ... asbestos. Seriously. A bill -- which, after a 98 to 1 vote in the Senate yesterday, will now move to the floor for debate -- would create a $140 billion industry-financed trust fund for victims of asbestos-related illness, but would ...
Topics: environmental justice, Harry Reid, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Will & Disgrace Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general	Amanda Griscom Little	28 Apr 2005	Muckraker
Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

H2Oops EPA exaggerated claims about clean drinking water	Amanda Griscom	16 Mar 2004	Muckraker
That sinking feeling. The U.S. EPA claims it is successfully protecting the nation's drinking-water supplies -- but that claim seems to have sprung a leak. Earlier this month, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General accused officials in the agency of consistently making bogus statements about improvements in the quality of America's tap water. The charges are spelled out in a tellingly titled report: &q ...
Topics: health, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Hot Spots You Won't Want to Visit With Feds Slow to Tackle Mercury Pollution, State Leaders Step Up		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, health, Midwest, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hot Spot and Bothered With feds slow to tackle mercury pollution, state leaders step up	Amanda Griscom	12 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The Mercury Mutiny is gaining force on the state level, galvanizing some unlikely rebels. Eastern states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York were the first to jump into the fray, launching local efforts to reduce mercury pollution in response to the Bush administration's widely criticized plan for dealing with mercury. Then last week, a new regional e ...
Topics: East Coast, health, mercury, Muckraker, Northeast, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury Roughly 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams, revealed a U.S. EPA analysis released yesterday, which doubles the previously estimated numb ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, health, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Lead Poisoning Is an Environmental, Not Medical, Problem		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Hollow Weenies EPA Won't Restrict Use of Potentially Harmful Weed Killer		03 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Hollow Weenies EPA Won't Restrict Use of Potentially Harmful Weed Killer Talk about scary stuff: On Oct. 31, as people across the U.S. were getting ready to don costumes and pass out Halloween candy, the Bush administration announced that it would not impose new restrictions on the commonly used herbicide atrazine, which has been associated with low sperm counts and prostate cancer ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan In a blow to advocates of environmental and human health, the European Union dramatically narrowed the scope of its plan to require safety testing for tens of thousands of chemicals. The move was motivated primarily by financial concerns, and the narrower plan is expected to save billions of dollars. But the timing -- in the middle of a bar ...
Topics: business, European Union, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., say ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Caveat Farmer Bush Insulates Pesticide Makers from Lawsuits		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Caveat Farmer Bush Insulates Pesticide Makers from Lawsuits The Bush administration is doing a big favor for pesticide manufacturers by instituting a new policy that will curb farmers' ability to sue the companies if their products don't work as promised. In a significant policy reversal, the U.S. EPA has reinterpreted a federal law and now claims that it bars ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Clear Skies Looking Dirty		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Clear Skies Looking Dirty One of President Bush's most ambitious environmental proposals is in jeopardy -- the goal of cutting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants 46 percent by 2010. Many in the utility industry are complaining that such a requirement, which is part of Bush's "Clear Skies" legislation, would cost far more than expected and could force some coal- ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Orange Alert		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Orange Alert The U.S. military sprayed twice as much herbicide on Vietnam during the war there than previously estimated, according to a study published today in the journal Nature. Relying on previously unexamined military documents and new assessments of dioxin concentrations, the study found that an additional 1.8 million gallons of toxic herbicides, mostly Agent Orange, were used by the Armed Forces. From 1961 to 19 ...
Topics: health, politics, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

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