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Calif. Regulators Move To Reduce Lead in Drinking Water at Child Care Centers
State regulators announced steps on Wednesday to reduce the risks of lead exposure faced by young children in day care facilities across California. In a public hearing, the State Water Resources...
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New California Law Protects Workers From Toxic Lead Poisoning
Last night Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a powerful measure that will help California protect workers from toxic lead poisoning. With his signature, the governor has directed health officials to...
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Trump EPA Balks at Protecting Kids From Lead Exposure
The Environmental Protection Agency's new proposal for regulating lead in drinking water will leave millions of American children exposed to dangerous levels of the highly potent neurotoxin, which can...
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Deal Reached to Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide in California
In a major move to protect California children, farm workers and their families, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today it has reached an agreement with the pesticide industry to ban...
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Notorious PFAS Polluter 3M Fights N.H. Effort To Enforce Health-Protective Drinking Water Limit
One of the largest U.S. chemical companies, which for decades knowingly poisoned its own workers and drinking water supplies near its factories with the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, is...
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Coal Behemoth With Close Ties to Trump Nears Financial Default
The mining company of President Trump's favorite coal boss is in danger of financial default – another sign of the death spiral of the dirtiest fossil fuel, despite the president's hollow promise to...
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New Study Confirms High PFAS Blood Levels Among Firefighters
A new scientific review finds “unequivocal evidence” that firefighters using foams made with the fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS have “unacceptably” high levels of two toxic PFAS chemicals in...
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Federal Judge's Ruling Allows Class Action Suit Against PFAS Makers to Proceed
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New California Law Creates Strictest Lead and Cadmium Limits in Jewelry in U.S.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law bipartisan legislation to protect Californians, especially children, from jewelry tainted with highly toxic heavy metals into law. SB 647 imposes the nation's...
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New State Data: Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Widespread in California Drinking Water Sources
Drinking water sources for 74 community water systems serving 7.5 million Californians are contaminated with the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to an Environmental Working...
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EWG: Study Estimates More Than 100,000 Cancer Cases Could Stem From Contaminants in Tap Water
A toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants in U.S. drinking water could result in more than 100,000 cancer cases, according to a peer-reviewed study from Environmental Working Group – the first study to...
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Governors Urge Congress To Keep PFAS Provisions in Defense Bill
Governors from 15 states, including many facing mounting contamination of drinking water sources from toxic perfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, are urging Congressional leaders to include provisions in...
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Duke Energy’s Renewables Pledge Falls Short
The proposal announced today by Duke Energy, claiming the nation's largest investor-owned electric utility aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, is far from a serious commitment to...
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Trump Completes Repeal of Clean Water Rule, Imperiling Drinking Water Sources for 117M People
Today the Trump administration will finalize its plan to repeal critical safeguards that prohibit the dumping of industrial and agricultural pollution into sensitive waterways that provide tap water...
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Tests Find Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ at 10 Oregon Army Installations
Drinking water supplies at 10 Army installations in Oregon are contaminated with the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of Defense data obtained by EWG...
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New PFAS Detections Reported at 90 Additional Army Installations
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FDA Finds Asbestos in Beauty Plus Products, Issues Voluntary Recall
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Try, Try Again: Trump Mulling Taxpayer Bailout of Nuclear Industry
Although previous schemes to bail out the dying nuclear industry fizzled, the Trump administration is at it again. Bloomberg reports that the administration is considering using an obscure Cold War...
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October Is Children’s Environmental Health Month in California
California lawmakers proclaimed October 2019 as Children's Environmental Health Month to raise awareness about the importance of cleaner air and water, safer food and healthier products for children.
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Hurricane Dorian Threatens To Spread Millions of Tons of Manure Again Throughout North Carolina’s Coastal Plain
As Hurricane Dorian bears down on North Carolina, the storm's flood waters threaten once again to spread millions of tons of animal waste from factory farms throughout the state's eastern coastal...
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