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Bonus Subsidy Unfair, Wasteful
A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis identifies and posts online prospective recipients of a pending $1.5 billion crop subsidy bonus that is contained in an emergency spending bill the...
Farm Subsidy Reform Key to Restoring Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"
Each year, an average of $270 million worth of wasted fertilizer flows down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a "Dead Zone" of more than 5,000 square miles that is completely...
Harvard Study: Strong Link Between Fluoridated Water and Bone Cancer in Boys
Boys who drink water with levels of fluoride considered safe by federal guidelines are five times more likely to have a rare bone cancer than boys who drink unfluoridated water, according to a study...
FDA Data Undercut Public Safety Assurances by Top Agency Official
Letter to the FDA regarding benzene in soft drinks with compilation of data from 1995-2001 study.
National Academy Calls for Lowering Fluoride Limits in Tap Water
National Academy of Sciences report calls for lowering fluoride levels in drinking water.
House Set To Nullify State Consumer Safety Programs Under Pressure From Corporate Food Lobby
The House votes today on a bill pitting giant food companies against the health and safety of American families—a measure that could nullify state laws warning consumers about mercury in fish, lead in...
White House Delays Release of Study Showing Toxic Rocket Fuel in Most Americans
Following a published report that the Bush Administration is holding up a study that shows most Americans carry a toxic rocket fuel chemical in their bodies at levels close to federal safety limits...
Children's Drinks Contain Ingredients That Can Form Benzene
Today the Environmental Working Group (EWG) sent a letter to the FDA requesting that the Agency notify the public about the presence of two ingredients in many popular children's drinks that can mix...
EPA Science Panel Says Teflon Chemical 'Likely' Cause of Cancer
Today, a panel of outside experts gave draft comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) saying that an indestructible, toxic chemical that pollutes nearly every American's blood is a...
Study Hits EPA Plan To Censor Community Pollution Reports
It is the category of industrial chemicals that, by consensus, scientists and government regulators the world over worry most about: substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in wildlife...
ChemRisk's Los Alamos Contract Questioned
Los Alamos Lab contractor caught in scientific fraud: work on chromium contamination conflicts with ties to polluters.
Chrome-Plated Fraud: Scientific Integrity and Chromium Toxicity
A consulting firm hired by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) to fight the "Erin Brockovich" lawsuit distorted data from a Chinese study to plant an article in a scientific journal reversing the study...
Mining Measure Six Feet Under
Reps. Richard Pombo (R-CA) and Jim Gibbons (R-NV) have pulled mining legislation from the House budget bill that could have sold off 350 million acres of American public lands.
EPA Fines Teflon Maker DuPont for Chemical Cover-Up
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will fine Teflon maker DuPont $16.5 million for two decades' worth of covering up company studies that showed it was polluting drinking...
Real Estate Developers with Mining Claims Near Las Vegas Could Still Purchase Land
Proposed fixes to heavily criticized mining legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. James A. Gibbons (R-NV) could still cost Nevada schools more than $120 million, slash $100 million per year in taxes...
Former DuPont Top Expert: Company Knew, Covered Up Pollution of Americans' Blood for 18 Years
Breakdown chemicals from DuPont coatings and related sources are now in the blood of 95 percent of Americans, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent the last several years trying to...
House Votes Today on Budget Package Including Worst Land Grab in American History (10 Nov 2005)
The House of Representatives votes today on a federal spending bill with language from Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) that will let foreign mining companies, real estate speculators, oil and mining...
Pombo Proposal Amounts to Largest Land Sell-Off in Modern American History (08 Nov 2005)
A little-known provision in the current House budget reconciliation could precipitate one of the largest land giveaways in American history.
Senator Chambliss' Agriculture Proposal Would Extend Wasteful Farm Subsidy Programs for 4 Years
In advance of Thursday morning's mark-up of budget reconciliation measures in the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) proposed to extend bloated, highly controversial U...
BLM Steamrolls Public on Otero Mesa
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) next month will release 250,000-acres for oil and gas development in the heart of New Mexico's Otero Mesa despite strong local opposition from the governor, the...