"Millions Of Bees Dead After South Carolina Sprays For Zika Mosquitoes"
"On Sunday morning, the South Carolina honey bees began to die in massive numbers."
Source: Wash Post, 09/02/2016
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"Lead Tests on NY City Schools’ Water May Have Masked Scope of Risk"
"When the results of tests for lead in the water at more than 1,500 New York City school buildings were announced in July, officials said that fewer than 1 percent of all the samples taken showed lead concentrations that exceeded Environmental Protection Agency guidelines. Given other safety measures in place, officials assured parents, the water was safe to drink. But a review of how the testing was conducted suggests that the amount of lead in the water that students consume could be greater than the results indicate."
Source: NY Times, 09/01/2016
"Grotesque Cancers Plaguing Lake Michigan Tributary Fish"
"Federal scientists are finding increasing skin and liver tumors in bottom-feeding fish caught in several of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan tributaries that flow through areas with particularly severe environmental problems."
Source: Grand Rapids Press, 09/01/2016
"Your Tattoo Might Have Printer Ink or Car Paint in It"
"Emily Pratt wasn’t impressed when she heard about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe into the potentially deleterious effects of tattoo ink. She would have shrugged to show how little she cared, but she was a bit sore from the tattoo machine that had just been smacking away at her left forearm."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/31/2016
"'Last Chemical Weapons Stocks' Shipped Out Of Libya"
"Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country on a Danish vessel, under a UN-backed plan to eliminate the arsenal, officials said Tuesday."
Source: AFP, 08/30/2016
Minnesota: Researchers Warn On Mercury In St. Louis River Estuary Fish
If a kid catches a big walleye on the St. Louis River estuary in Duluth, the state warns her not to eat it. Ever.
Source: Duluth News Tribune, 08/29/2016
West Virginia: "Chemical Leak Forces Evacuations In Northern Panhandle"
"At least seven people were treated and several communities evacuated Saturday following an early morning leak of extremely toxic chlorine gas from a Northern Panhandle chemical plant with a recent history of significant safety problems."
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail, 08/29/2016
"CSB: Mission Impossible -- Deadly Accidents, No Answers"
"Early on a Saturday morning, deep inside a chemical plant in La Porte, Javier Ortiz took his last sip of coffee."
Source: Houston Chronicle, 08/29/2016
Wisconsin: "High Rate Of Tumors Found In Fish"
"Scientists led by researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey have found an elevated number of cases of skin and liver tumors in white suckers in the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers — a discovery that suggests more work will be needed to remove contaminants from the waterways."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 08/29/2016
"Streams On Speed Altering Aquatic Food Web"
"Study finds a cocktail of legal and illegal drugs in Baltimore's Gwynns Falls, most likely from city's leaking sewers".
Source: Bay Journal, 08/26/2016
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