EPA Turnaround: Collecting Data on Fracking Risks Just Might be a Good Idea
Reversing a stand it took six years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will launch a $1.9 million research program to learn whether a technology that has spurred a boom in domestic natural gas production poses a threat to drinking water and public health.
In 2004, in a study that was not...
EPA Offers Free Access to Chemicals Inventory
It’s about time!
The US Environmental Protection Agency put out the word yesterday (March 15) that people who want to see its public inventory of industrial chemicals will no longer have to shell out their own money to get it. It’s a small but meaningful step on a longer and contentious road to give...
Doing the Right Thing
It’s not news that getting anything substantive through Congress these days is like pushing very big rocks uphill, even when there is remarkable consensus on the topic.
That’s why a broad array of organizations that care about people’s health came together this week to thank Administrator Lisa...
US Senate Investigates Chemicals in People
From bisphenol A (BPA) to flame retardants and beyond, industrial chemicals that have troubling connections to a host of human health problems and are widely used in consumer products came under tough scrutiny before a U.S. Senate hearing this week (Feb. 4).
New Jersey Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D) called...
BPA: And Now the Placenta
Researchers in Canada have given the FDA something new to think about as it takes a fresh look at the risks of the ubiquitous plastics chemical bisphenol A, or BPA.
Their small lab study is quite different from any that’s been done before, because they tested the chemical directly on cells from human...
Death at DuPont
Phosgene, a widely used chemical that can be lethal at concentrations of less than 2 parts per million, killed a DuPont employee who died Sunday (Jan. 24) after inhaling the gas one day earlier in an accident at a West Virginia plant. The chemical is used in the production of various pesticides and herbicides...
Secret Chemicals: File This Under, “You Gotta Be Kidding!”
But we’re not.
Here’s the story. When a chemical manufacturer finds out that one of its products “presents a substantial risk of injury to health or the environment,” the company is required under federal law to give that information immediately to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The...
EPA Moves on “Chemicals of Concern”
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Government (In)Action, Know Your Toxins, Legislation, Tracking Kid Safe on 01 13th, 2010 | No Comments
It’s good to see the issue of reforming toxic chemicals regulation getting widespread coverage in a variety of media. Just this week (Jan. 11), Scientific American magazine published on its website a good account by author Lizzie Grossman of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) year-end decision...
Congressman Cleans Up
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Household cleaners, Legislation, Pollution in People on 01 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Sure, it’s an act, but it beats watching a bunch of suits standing at a lectern in the Congressional press gallery. In a video he posted recently on YouTube, Rep. Steve Israel gets down and dirty – actually, he gets down and cleans. Wearing a yellow tie and the sleeves of his blue shirt rolled up,...
Top 10 Environmental Stories of the Decade — That You Might Have Missed
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Legislation, Pollution in People on 12 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment
EWG staffers put our heads together to come up with this list of bad news environmental stories over the last decade that people might have missed. But there were plenty of big stories that hardly anyone could have missed, such as climate change. What’s on your list of the biggest environmental...
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