Tag: Lead Contamination
Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water
A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
Another Flint? Newark, NJ, faces public health crisis over lead contamination...
Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination...
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New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses
While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.
The President from Hell (and High Water)
Tom Engelhardt on what a Democratic sweep in November would and would not change, and a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel.
Raw milk cheese recalled after E. coli outbreak sickens 13 people in nine states
Eight people were hospitalized and three developed a serious kidney complication, and more than half of those sick are age 5 or younger, the CDC says.
Colorado sues to stop private immigration detention center in Hudson
The state says the federal government never studied what a 1,200-bed facility would do to a town of about 1,600, its water supply or local wildlife.
White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.