Pollution - Articles

Marine base's ex-residents, many ill, only now learning of toxic water
McClatchy Newspapers - Mon Feb 15, 2010
WASHINGTON - Paul Akers was in his oncologist's office last summer when his adult daughter handed him a magazine. More»

Did Clean-Room Chemicals Cause Birth Defects?
KPHO-TV - Fri Feb 5, 2010
PHOENIX, Arizona - The picture of Bob and Janice Numkena's wedding day is old and faded, but Bob's memory of the day is clear. More»

Vermont Nuclear Plant Lies to Regulators about Radioactive Water
WPTZ-TV - Thu Jan 14, 2010
MONTPELIER, Vermont - Political leaders of every stripe sharply criticized executives at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Friday over new revelations they have repeatedly misled regulators about key systems at the site. More»

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected
Wired - Thu Dec 17, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history, created an inadvertent laboratory to study the impacts of radiation - and more than twenty years later, the site still holds surprises. More»

Gov't stands by as mercury taints water
Associated Press - Thu Sep 17, 2009
NEW IDRIA, California - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. More»

Did toxic chemical in Iraq cause GIs' illnesses?
Associated Press - Sat Jun 27, 2009
Larry Roberta's every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq: he can't walk a block without gasping for air. More»

CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula
Associated Press - Thu Apr 2, 2009
ATLANTA - Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found. More»

Ocean Dead Zones Could Approach Mass Extinction Levels
Discovery News - Sun Jan 25, 2009
The future of Earth's oceans is beginning to look a lot like a mass extinction, according to new research. More»

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
Washington Post - Fri Jan 23, 2009
Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new US studies. More»

Orange drinks with 300 times more pesticide than tap water
Daily Mail, UK - Sun Jan 4, 2009
Fizzy drinks sold by Coca-Cola in Britain have been found to contain pesticides at up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water. More»

Rivers high in arsenic, heavy metals after sludge spill
CNN - Mon Dec 29, 2008
KINGSTON, Tennessee - The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste. More»

Tennessee sludge spill estimate grows to 1 billion gallons
CNN - Fri Dec 26, 2008
Estimates for the amount of thick sludge that gushed from a Tennessee coal plant this week have tripled to more than a billion gallons, as cleanup crews try to remove the goop from homes and railroads and halt its oozing into an adjacent river. More»

WHO limits melamine in food, says traces "seem safe"
Associated Press - Fri Dec 5, 2008
GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Friday that tiny traces of the chemical melamine are not harmful in most foods, but it joined the US and EU in setting a strict limit that regulators should impose before pulling products off the shelf. More»

One in 3 toys is toxic
CNN - Fri Dec 5, 2008
NEW YORK - One in three toys tested was found to contain toxic chemicals such as lead, flame retardants and arsenic, according to a report issued Wednesday by an environmental group. More»

FDA finds traces of melamine in US infant formula
Associated Press - Mon Nov 24, 2008
The industrial chemical melamine has been detected in samples of top-selling US infant formula, but federal regulators insist the products are safe. More»

Pesticide Found In Toddler Cereal
WFSB-TV - Tue Oct 28, 2008
HARTFORD, Connecticut - A toddler cereal sold in Connecticut has been found to contain high levels of a pesticide, according to the Department of Consumer Protection. More»

Feds Investigate Vermont Radiation Leak
WPTZ-TV - Tue Oct 21, 2008
VERNON, Vermont - Federal regulators are investigating the cause of radiation exposure that forced the evacuation of 25 workers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. More»

EPA won't limit toxic pollutant in drinking water
Associated Press - Mon Sep 22, 2008
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. More»

Heart Disease, Diabetes Linked to Plastics
US News - Wed Sep 17, 2008
"Just one word - plastics," a memorable line from the 1967 movie The Graduate, has taken on a whole new meaning. More»

Germans probing whether Bayer pesticide caused honeybee colony collapse
Raleigh News & Observer - Wed Aug 27, 2008
Bayer CropScience officials are rejecting claims that some of the company's pesticides played a role in the disappearance of millions of US honeybees. More»

Arsenic in Water Linked to Diabetes
Associated Press - Mon Aug 18, 2008
A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. More»

Navy says sub leaked radiation since 2006
CNN - Wed Aug 6, 2008
A US Navy submarine leaked trace amounts of radioactive water for two years as it made port calls in Japan and other Asian nations, the Navy said Thursday. More»

Plutonium leaks at Austrian plant
BBC - Sun Aug 3, 2008
There has been a plutonium leak at a site run by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria. More»

Massive oil spill clogs Mississippi River
AFP - Thu Jul 24, 2008
NEW ORLEANS - The Mississippi River reopened to limited traffic on Friday, two days after a barge collided with a tanker spilling hundreds of gallons of fuel oil, the US Coast Guard said. More»

Boeing, Dow Chemical fined 926 million over nuclear pollution
AFP - Mon Jun 2, 2008
A Denver, Colorado court has fined Dow Chemical Company and Boeing Company a combined 926 million dollars for property damages caused by plutonium contamination from a nuclear weapons plant. More»

Childhood lead exposure linked to adult crime
USA Today - Tue May 27, 2008
In what may be the strongest link yet between lead exposure and crime rates, researchers at the University of Cincinnati on Tuesday released new evidence, spanning more than 20 years, that draws a direct relationship between the amount of lead in a child's blood and the likelihood he or she will commit crimes as an adult. More»

Salmonella cases top 200 in Colorado
Associated Press - Sun Mar 23, 2008
ALAMOSA, Colorado - The number of suspected salmonella cases linked to an outbreak in this southern Colorado town topped 200 Sunday. More»

Gulf War ills tied to chemical exposure
Associated Press - Sun Mar 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Increasing evidence ties pesticides and other chemicals to some, not all, of the Gulf War illnesses that afflict thousands of veterans of the 1991 war, says an analysis published Monday. More»

Supreme Court to hear Exxon spill case
Associated Press - Sun Feb 24, 2008
CORDOVA, Alaska - For many in this coastal town, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides. More»

Feds stop state efforts to slash mercury pollution
Associated Press - Fri Feb 15, 2008
While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accept a scheme that would let some plants evade cleaning up their pollution, government documents show. More»

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