EPA Reverses on Decision to Ban Flea Collars with Toxic Pesticide, Leaving Children at Risk

by Beyond Pesticides | September 29, 2023
Beyond Pesticides has long covered a long list of corrupt practices by EPA and the chemical industry, demonstrating that the TCVP saga is nothing new. For example, in 2021 four whistleblower scientists asserted that “risk assessments for both new and existing chemicals were ...

Dr. David Carpenter: Academic Freedom in Public Health

by | September 28, 2023
Dr. David Carpenter had been forbidden from teaching and barred from campus after an investigation launched through corporate political pressure over his research ...

Got Plastic With a No. 2 Recycling Symbol? Beware a Toxic Problem

by Bloomberg |
Over the next couple of months, a colleague of Bennett’s at PEER tracked down white plastic jugs of Anvil 10+10 and shipped samples of the liquid to a Pennsylvania laboratory called Eurofins for testing. The results confirmed Bennett’s suspicions: The pesticide contained PFAS compounds ...

Forever chemicals at former Nasa lab are leaking into LA River, say watchdogs

“California’s pollution control agencies are not just asleep at the switch but appear to be in a coma,” said Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of the non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer), which has filed a lawsuit over the site’s cleanup. PFAS are a class ...

L.A. River Poisoned by Toxic PCBs

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Santa Susana Likely Suspect but Water Board Withholding Documents ...
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