Tag: cancer
‘Hidden killer’: experts urge action after study shows how air pollution...
"If you want to address human health, you have to address climate health first," said Charles Swanton, who led the research team.
New study reveals children born close to fracking more likely to...
Not only are children at a greater risk of developing ALL from toxic air pollution, but the study said that fracking also contaminates drinking water, which causes more exposure to cancer-linked chemicals.
EPA finds 23 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country above agency’s...
Ethylene oxide is known to cause cancer when people within close proximity to sterilizer facilities breathe the gas in over the course of many years.
Phthalate exposure linked to increased risk of childhood cancer, study finds
The data also shows a nearly three-fold higher rate of osteosarcoma (a bone cancer) and a two-fold higher rate of lymphoma (a blood cancer).
A plant that sterilizes medical equipment spews cancer-causing pollution on tens...
Beal, of the EPA, said that the Biden administration has “reinvigorated its commitment to protect public health from toxic air emissions from industrial facilities.” And she said ethylene oxide in particular is a major priority.
Center for Biological Diversity sues EPA for not regulating PVC plastic
“PVC is one of the most hazardous consumer products ever made, and the federal government can’t keep ignoring that reality."
Bayer announces plan to end glyphosate-based herbicide sales to US consumers...
The company will replace glyphosate in the consumer lawn and garden segment with other "known and well-established active ingredients."
New study finds correlation between specific pesticides and central nervous system...
"Policy interventions to reduce pesticide exposure in individuals residing near agricultural fields should be considered to protect the health of children."
BNL lawsuit and the impacts of national nuclear laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory “continues to show almost no regard for its neighbors…Is this any way for a government-funded agency to treat its neighbors?”
Bayer agrees to pay $10 billion to settle RoundUp cancer cases
Bayer will have to pay between "$8.8 billion to $9.6 billion to resolve current Roundup lawsuits."
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Fed rate hikes won’t tackle the corporate profiteering behind inflation, experts tell Congress
"Interest rate hikes... will not address any of the underlying causes of our supply shortages and do nothing to address profiteering."
The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s time for a...
We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters by training people to both protect and mobilize their communities.
The most dangerous decade: 2018-2028
Without great restraint, diplomacy, wisdom and compromises, we will be sleepwalking into a nuclear disaster in the next decade.
Peace activists hit the streets from DC to San Francisco
The Peace in Ukraine Coalition mobilized for negotiations, not escalation, in what CODEPINK describes as a proxy war threatening a direct war between the two most heavily armed nuclear nations; the United States and Russia.
As falls Russia, so falls the world
Can the heroine of this story, true internationalism, survive the onslaught of lawless maniacs bent on reviving a world of unaccountable sovereigns and promoting a war of all against all?