In a newly released position paper from the American College of Physicians, key doctors are anticipating potentially devastating effects on humans as a result of climate change. These include higher rates of respiratory and heat-related illness, increased prevalence of vector-borne and waterborne diseases, food and water insecurity and much higher rates of malnutrition. Persons...
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Category: Environmental Protection
EPA’s report that Monsanto Roundup weed killer safe based only on industry data
A recent determination by U.S. environmental regulators that Monsanto's weed killer Roundup is not an endocrine disruptor was based on data provided by industry and ignores a number of independent studies pointing to evidence that the active ingredient, glyphosate, disrupt the human endocrine system. The medical journal The Intercept published a report...
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DuPont trial over C-8 chemical perfluorooctane sulfonate exposure starts Monday
Residents near a DuPont plant in West Virginia say that the company emitted a toxic chemical into their drinking, C-8 a checmical actually called Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), making them sick, they say.
On Monday, DuPont will face the first trial involving Carla Marie Bartlett who says she developed kidney cancer from...
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The ultimate environmental whistleblower: Google street cars measuring pollution
Google and Aclima a San Francisco startup are equipping Google's Street view cars with environmental sensors to measure pollution and its sources. Google drives the Street View cars around the streets of the world to collect data for Google Maps.
Aclima announced a partnership with Google Earth Outreach and...
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Ship crew members whistleblowers reveal ocean dumping for large financial bounties
Seamen and women are becoming whistle-blowers, frequently obtaining a financial bounty, turning in maritime polluters, providing the evidentiary basis for a growing number of cases the federal government has pursued in Baltimore and other port cities across the country. One such case involves a crew member named Salvador Lopez, who was aboard...
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Duke Energy Corp pays $34 million for polluting rivers with coal ash
Three North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corporation, the largest utility in the United States, pleaded guilty today to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at several of its North Carolina facilities and agreed to pay a $68 million criminal fine and spend $34 million on environmental projects and land conservation to benefit...
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Tyson announces end of use of human antibiotics by 2017 WHY NOT NOW?
Tyson Foods has announced that it will eliminate the use of human antibiotics by 2017. antibiotic resistant infections are a global health concern and it is known that use of human antibiotics in food products has enhanced in antibiotic resistant bacteria which kill human beings as there is no drug to protect the body....
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California kids have healthier lungs after pollution controls: new study says
A carefully conducted study of 2,120 children in southern California has found dramatically better lung function in the children as air quality has improved.Over a 13-year period, the children with poor lung capacity and lung health fell by half as levels of nitrogen dioxide and...
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Farmers misusing antibiotics in cows despite extreme threat to humans
Reuters news agency has completed an investigation showing that an increasing number of farmers are misuing ceftiofur, one of the most potent and often used antibiotics resulting an a 323% increase in use from 2008-2013. The use of antibiotics in meat and other animal-based food products rose 16% by volume from 2009...
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Halliburton pays $1.1 Billion for damages from Deepwater Horizon spill
Halliburton has agreed to pay a $1.1 billion settlement plaintiffs claiming damages resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. The moneys will be used to pay off damage claims from property holders and commercial...
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