Coal Study Suggests Mountaintop-Removal is Toxic for People

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Coal Study Suggests Mountaintop-Removal is Toxic for People

by The Investigative Newswire on July 20, 2012 · comment

Fifth image in a series showing a mountaintop removal mining explosive blast in Eunice, WV. photo: Roston (Wikimedia Commons)

Study finds toxins from mountaintop coal mining sites by Alice Su for iWatch News The U.S. Geological Survey has found high levels of toxic compounds in soil and water around mountaintop-removal mining sites in central Appalachia, a potentially [...]

New Findings on Diesel’s Link to Cancer

by The Investigative Newswire on June 13, 2012 · comment

Diesel powered residual waste trucks make their way through downtown Coudersport, Pa., going to or coming from natural gas extraction sites. photo: J.B.Pribanic

Diesel engine exhaust earns ‘carcinogenic’ label by Jim Morris for iWatch News Diesel engine exhaust is “carcinogenic to humans,” an international health body declared Tuesday, bolstering the findings of a controversial study published recently in the United States. [...]

EPA’s List of Questionable Chemicals Goes Almost Two Years Without Action

by The Investigative Newswire on February 13, 2012 · comment

‘Chemicals of concern’ list stuck at OMB EPA proposal has been under review for 638 days by Chris Hamby and Jim Morris for iWatch News About 21 months ago, a proposed list of widely used chemicals that may [...]

EPA ‘Grossly Delinquent’ in Regulating Industry to Comply by Air Emission Standards

by The Investigative Newswire on November 21, 2011 · comment

Why Americans still breathe known hazards decades after ‘clean air’ law Politics, industry and ‘hopelessly irrational’ EPA stymie air toxics crackdown By Jim Morris and Corbin Hiar for iwatch news The stumbling, two-decade-old war on hazardous air pollutants — declared on Nov. [...]