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Raking through sludge exposes a stink.
A former US EPA scientist is suing the agency's officials and researchers at the University of Georgia in Athens, alleging that they manufactured and published false data to support the use of potentially harmful sewage sludges as fertilizers.
Categories: Environmental Health
House passes farm bill.
A $290 billion farm bill locking in the nation's food policy for five years passed the House and is expected to pass the Senate. It has a new program that will create incentives to plow millions of acres of prairie grasslands, releasing tons of carbon.
Categories: Environmental Health
L.A. prepares massive water-conservation plan.
Los Angeles officials today will revive a controversial proposal to recycle wastewater as part of a plan to curb usage and move the city toward greater water independence.
Categories: Environmental Health
Monsoon predicted in Myanmar delta.
Monsoon winds and rain were predicted on Wednesday, compounding the misery for at least 1.6 million survivors of this month's deadly cyclone. The Red Cross's new death toll estimate is 127,990.
Categories: Environmental Health
Insecticides in pet shampoo may trigger autism.
Could insecticides in pet shampoos trigger autism spectrum disorders? That's the suggestion of one of the first large-scale population-based studies to look at how gene-environmental factor interactions contribute to the condition.
Categories: Environmental Health
Insecticides in pet shampoo may trigger autism.
Could insecticides in pet shampoos trigger autism spectrum disorders? That's the suggestion of one of the first large-scale population-based studies to look at how gene-environmental factor interactions contribute to the condition.
Categories: Environmental Health
Baby bottles 'may cause obesity'.
Bisphenol A, or BPA, has previously been linked to the early development of puberty as well as neurological problems in infants.
Categories: Environmental Health
Research links common chemicals to obesity.
Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Categories: Environmental Health
Kids with poor eating habits are developing adult diseases.
With an epidemic of obesity affecting American children and adolescents, doctors say a growing number are being diagnosed with chronic diseases once considered illnesses of adulthood.
Categories: Environmental Health
District backs away from Corona health study.
A study showing Corona del Sol High School staff and students are reporting significantly higher rates of health problems compared is not being released by the district.
Categories: Environmental Health
Cleanup of school site to be discussed.
The state agency overseeing the cleanup of a Wilmington school site will discuss plans tonight for excavating and removing contaminated soil.
Categories: Environmental Health
Greenhouse gases highest for 800,000 years.
Greenhouse gases are at higher levels in the atmosphere than at any time in at least 800,000 years, according to a study of Antarctic ice on Wednesday that extends evidence that mankind is disrupting the climate.
Categories: Environmental Health
Sewer to spigot: Recycled water.
A growing number of cities and counties grappling with water shortages are turning to a solution that may be tough for some homeowners to stomach: purifying wastewater so that residents can drink it.
Categories: Environmental Health
FDA defends safety of baby bottle chemical.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday said it sees no reason to tell consumers to stop using products such as baby bottles made with a controversial chemical found in many plastic items.
Categories: Environmental Health
Democrats want chemical in plastic investigated.
Members of a Senate consumer affairs subcommittee faulted federal agencies for reacting too slowly to concerns that children are exposed to BPA through water and baby bottles, and food and baby formula cans.
Categories: Environmental Health
Alarm at weed-kill chemical in water.
Australian regulators have allowed a widely used weed killer to be present in drinking water at levels twice those now shown to cause damaging genetic changes in human cells.
Categories: Environmental Health
Study finds no evidence of risk in synthetic turf.
A draft report conducted on behalf of the Bloomberg administration says that there is no scientific evidence that synthetic turf fields in New York pose major health hazards for people playing on them.
Categories: Environmental Health
New school on polluted site energizes environmental coalition.
Soon, there may be more organized action to ensure that no community in Rhode Island ever again builds a school on a contaminated site.
Categories: Environmental Health
Mother claims school made daughter sick.
For 12 years, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has known about a potentially deadly chemical in the soil less than two blocks from an public school - but cleanup plans have been snagged by red tape.
Categories: Environmental Health
Child autism link to pet shampoo.
Expectant mothers who used a treatment with a chemical commonly found in pet shampoo to kill their pet's fleas were twice as likely to go on to have children with autism, a scientist has found.
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