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Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water

New data show widespread nationwide contamination
Drinking water for more than 20 million Americans is contaminated with a toxic legacy of the Cold War: A chemical that interferes with normal thyroid function, may cause cancer and persists indefinitely in the environment, but is currently unregulated by state or federal authorities.
» Read more... | Published March 3, 2003

Glacier Vended Water and Contaminants in California

Glacier Water Services is the largest owner-operator of drinking water vending machines in California and the U.S.
But statewide testing in California found that a third of Glacier machines sold water that failed to failed to meet California standards for a class of chemicals linked to increased risk of cancer and birth defects.
» Read more... | Published December 10, 2002

Consider the Source

Farm runoff, chlorination byproducts, and human health
FIRST-EVER NATIONWIDE ASSESSMENT OF CHLORINATION BYPRODUCTS IN TAPWATER FINDS 137,000 U.S. PREGNANCIES AT HIGHER RISK OF MISCARRIAGE, BIRTH DEFECTS
» Read more... | Published January 8, 2002

Rocket Science

Perchlorate and the Toxic Legacy of the Cold War
Sources of drinking water for more than 7 million Californians and unknown millions of other Americans are contaminated with a chemical that disrupts child development and may cause thyroid cancer, but is unregulated by the state or federal government.
» Read more... | Published July 15, 2001

Lead Pollution at Outdoor Firing Ranges: Poisonous Pastime

Lead in Outdoor Firing Ranges
Shooting ranges are poisoning children and polluting the environment with lead, yet remain almost entirely unregulated-exempt from even the Bush Administration's new lead pollution reporting rules.
» Read more... | Published May 1, 2001

Uncontrolled LUSTs

Leaking Fuel Storage Tanks Threaten Water, But State Lets Oil Companies Off the Hook
Tens of thousands of underground storage tanks are leaking MTBE and other toxic chemicals into California's water and soil -- but for the vast majority of them, the state has never ordered cleanups or assessed fines.
» Read more... | Published July 16, 2000

A Few Bad Apples

Pesticides in Your Produce
Despite an August, 1999 ban by the federal government, an apple pesticide deemed too dangerous for children's foods has shown up in new tests of apples from Washington State.
» Read more... | Published March 31, 2000
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