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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
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
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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