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Pollution, Radiation and Toxics:
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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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