chemicals

Drug Waste Flushed Into World’s Freshwater Ecosystems to Rise 65% by 2050

Drug Waste Flushed Into World’s Freshwater Ecosystems to Rise 65% by 2050

It’s no surprise that chemicals can get flushed into our water supply from the pills we take. But as the world’s population grows, the rampant consumption of pharmaceuticals has become an emerging threat to the world’s freshwater ecosystems, researchers said. The research, presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on Tuesday, warns that if […]

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    Pollution From Air Force Keeps Causing Cancer in Tucson, Residents Say

    Pollution From Air Force Keeps Causing Cancer in Tucson, Residents Say

    Twenty-seven years ago, 1,600 residents of Tucson, Arizona’s south side settled an $84.5 million dollar lawsuit with Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon Missile Systems Co.), claiming the Air Force contractor had been dumping the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) into the water table for 29 years since 1952, causing cancers and other ailments. Now, more South Tucson […]

    EPA Once Planned to Ban a Deadly Paint-Stripping Chemical, But Will It Follow Through?

    EPA Once Planned to Ban a Deadly Paint-Stripping Chemical, But Will It Follow Through?

    By Jamie Smith Hopkins It might be surprising to learn that simply removing paint could be fatal, but the key ingredient in many paint-stripping products has felled dozens of people engaged in this run-of-the-mill task. In the waning days of the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to largely ban paint strippers […]

    Toxic Chemicals May Increase Chances of Regaining Weight After Dieting

    Toxic Chemicals May Increase Chances of Regaining Weight After Dieting

    By Alexis Temkin Exposure to fluorinated industrial chemicals, known as PFAS or PFC chemicals, may increase the amount of weight that people, especially women, regain after dieting, according to a new study by Harvard University researchers, published in PLOS Medicine. It found that women with higher levels of PFAS chemicals in their blood at the […]

    One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers

    One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers

    By Stacy Malkan “I want grandkids one day, so sperm is important to me because I’ve got three young boys,” said mom, author and social media genius Leah Segedie in a video introducing her “Save the Swimmers” campaign. “This is where my youngest rolls his eyes at me and says, ‘I know Mom. Avoiding plastics […]

    Trump Administration Offers 77 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico to Oil Industry

    Trump Administration Offers 77 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico to Oil Industry

    The Trump administration is holding the biggest offshore oil and gas lease auction in U.S. history Wednesday, offering all 77 million acres of unleased, available federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale comes as administration officials seek to rescind drilling safety rules approved after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, reduce royalties paid by […]

    EU Approves Controversial Bayer-Monsanto Merger

    EU Approves Controversial Bayer-Monsanto Merger

    The European Union approved Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto, a major hurdle in the $66 billion merger that would create the world’s largest integrated seed and pesticide conglomerate. The European Commission said the German chemical-maker’s takeover of the St. Louis-based agribusiness giant is “conditional on an extensive remedy package, which addresses the parties’ overlaps in seeds, […]

    Silver Nanoparticles in Clothing Wash Out, May Be Toxic

    Silver Nanoparticles in Clothing Wash Out, May Be Toxic

    By Sukalyan Sengupta and Tabish Nawaz Humans have known since ancient times that silver kills or stops the growth of many microorganisms. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, is said to have used silver preparations for treating ulcers and healing wounds. Until the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, colloidal silver (tiny particles suspended in a […]

    Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger

    Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger

    An overwhelming majority of surveyed farmers are concerned about the proposed Bayer-Monsanto merger and believe it will have a negative impact on independent farmers and farming communities, a recent poll has found. “We urge the Department of Justice to listen to farmers and the more than 1 million Americans calling on the department to block […]