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• 9/16/21: "The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than Antarctica" CNN 
• 8/4/21: "EPA Whistleblowers Say Managers Bullied Them to Approve Dangerous Chemicals"
• 6/1/21: "Tons of toxic pellets blanket Sri Lanka beaches, causing environmental disaster" 
• 4/30/21: "Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color, study finds" WaPo
• 4/29/21: Intercept - "Court Rules That EPA’s Delay “Exposed a Generation of American Children” to Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos"
• 4/27/21: "The Toxic Legacy of the US Military in the Pacific"
• 4/12/21: "Common plastic softeners may cause ‘serious’ brain damage in adults"
• 4/8/21: "New study finds correlation between specific pesticides and central nervous system tumors in children"
• 3/19/21: "Homes in Illinois Found to Have Lead Levels as Bad as Flint, Report Finds"
• 3/15/21: "A forgotten Cold War experiment has revealed its icy secret. It’s bad news for the planet." WaPo
• 2/3/21: Will Flint Water Trial Spark More Court Battles for Environmental Justice?
• The Polluted Brain: Evidence builds that dirty air causes Alzheimer’s, dementia
• Scientist find microplastics in human organs giving activists more ammo to demand change in plastic pollution
• 8/7/20: "Microplastics have moved into virtually every crevice on Earth"
• The Atlantic Ocean contains at least 10 times more plastic pollution than previously estimated 8/21/20
• Citing Coronavirus, EPA Suspends Environmental Rules Indefinitely
• Getting Rid of Pollution Improves Public Health Almost Immediately
• One Thing We Can Do - Fix Recycling NYT 1/15/20
• River of Trash How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable
• California finds widespread water contamination of ‘forever chemicals’
• PFAS EXPLAINED, the growing crisis of forever chemicals
• The House just voted to regulate PFAS. Here's what you need to know
• Plastics, Plastics everywhere
• Workers at Big Government Lab Sue Over Exposure to a Toxic Chemical 8/22/19
• Air pollution linked to bipolar disorder 8/20/19
• 8/6/19: "Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides"
• CNN Report on Toxics and Trump's EPA YouTube
• Corporations can legally put carcinogens in our food without warning labels 7/14/19
• Waste Only: How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World 7/20/19
• Plastics Threaten Global Climate at a Massive Scale During Each Point of Lifecycle.pdf
• Trump Admin Refuses to Join Over 180 Countries plastic ban
• America's recycling crisis
• Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows
• Toxic water from weedkiller use in the Corn Belt
• Fukushima Plant Is Releasing 770,000 Tons of Radioactive Water Into the Pacific Ocean
• Link to Environmental Law article and video on the Clean Air Act
• Ozone Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by Pollution From U.S. Companies
• China and the return of CFC pollution
• March 30, 2020: Why This Rare, Huge Ozone Hole Over the Arctic Is Troubling Scientists

• 8/18/21: "Dosing the coast: Baltimore County's leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay" 
• 8/16/21: "Everyone Will Breathe This Polluted Air One Day" NYT
• A Guide to Toxic Pesticides 2021
• 6/18/21: "These Four Plastic Items Make Up Almost Half Of All Ocean Trash" Forbes (audio included)
• 5/26/21: "20 Companies Produce More Than 50% of the World's Single-Use Plastic Waste"
• 5/17/21: "DuPont Investors Vote in Favor of Plastic Pollution Transparency"
• 3/18/21: "Plummeting Sperm Counts, Shrinking Penises: Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity" by Erin Brockovich
• 2/9/21: "U.S. Nuclear Waste Sites Face Sea-Level Rise Threat"
• 1/24/21: "Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce"
• 12/11/20: The Pandemic Has Made the Recycling Industry's Job Even Harder
• 10/1/20: "California Becomes First State to Ban 24 Toxic Chemicals From Cosmetics"
• 9/24/20: "A growing toxic threat — made worse by climate change" NBC
• 8/30/20: NYT  "Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic."
• 6/25/20: "Pandemic’s Cleaner Air Could Reshape What We Know About the Atmosphere" NYT
• 6/18/20: E.P.A. Won’t Regulate Toxic Compound Linked to Fetal Brain Damage
• More than 90% of U.S. plastic waste is never recycled
• 1982 Report Warned of Radioactive Waste Threat from Oil and Gas Wells
• New US Law requires probe of Marshall Islands nuclear dump threatened by rising seas
• ‘Dirty bomb’ matter in our midst  LAT (Cesium)
• 60 percent of Superfund sites in flood zones 11/18/19
• Toxic chemicals found in artificial turf 10/8/19
• Inside America's most toxic nuclear waste dump, where 56 million gallons of buried radioactive sludge are leaking into the earth
• Two mountain lions found dead in Santa Monica Mountains had ingested rat poison
• ​Microplastics Everywhere: more research needed
• The Average American and Waste
• Plastic Overload: China moves to restrict imports of plastic
• The Precautionary Principle
• Millions in US exposed to unmonitored dangerous chemical
• Superbugs to Kill More People than Cancer if Industrial Agriculture Doesn't stop using pesticides
• Antibiotic Resistance and New Research into new products
• Border detention centers wont vaccinate kids 8/22/19
• How the US government hides the effects of fracking on drinking water
• Robots in Fukushima Daiichi
• NYT: Six Years after Fukushima​
• Pollution killing more people than all other leading causes of death
• Budget Cuts make Federal Agency fly blind.​
• In the Shadows of a Refinery
• Do You live Close to a Superfund Toxic Site? 
• ​Big Pharma Pollution is Creating SuperBugs while the world looks the other way.

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