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Pollution, Radiation and Toxics:
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  • 9/22/22: "Profiting from poison: how the US lead industry knowingly created a water crisis" 
  • 8/29/22: "EPA Proposes Regulating Two Common ‘Forever Chemicals’ Under Superfund Law" EcoWatch
  • 8/1/22: "EPA Whistleblowers Provide New Evidence of Ongoing Failure to Assess Dangerous Chemicals" Intercept
  • 7/13/22: EcoWatch "Plastic Recycling Isn’t Effective, as Households Recycle Just 12% of Single-Use Plastic Packaging Per Year, UK Survey Says"
  • 7/7/22: "California’s sweeping new plastics law could be a game changer" NatGeo
  • 6/28/22: "Flint water charges tossed because of ‘one-man grand jury,’ court says" WaPo
  • 5/17/22: "Pollution's fatal threat gains urgency after 9 million died in one year" 
  • 1/21/22: "EPA to require Midwestern utilities clean up coal ash waste" 
  • 12/24/21:"Latin America urges US to reduce plastic waste exports to region" Guardian
  • 12/17/21: "Cleanup to start at 49 Superfund sites using money from infrastructure law" NBC News
  • 10/22/21: "Plastics Could Release More Emissions Than Coal by 2030, Study Finds" 
  • 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
  • 8/19/22: "The TVA is dumping a mountain of coal ash in Black south Memphis" WaPo
  • 8/4/22: "History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast even worse than expected, EPA finds" LAT
  • July, 2022: "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: A Historic Investment in Brownfields" EPA
  • 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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