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Black lung surges back in coal country by Chris Hamby for iWatch News PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Ray Marcum bears the marks of a bygone era of coal mining. At 83, his voice is raspy, his eastern Kentucky accent [...]
Grassroots movement tackles India water crisis by CIR Subscribe to podcast · Download audio · Embed player · Audio player assistance TRANSCRIPT: The average human drinks a couple of quarts of water every day. But it takes more [...]
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. [...]
Living in industry’s shadow: After years of illnesses, family looks for answers by Janet Wilson for California Watch The Martin family lives 10 minutes from downtown Los Angeles, in a neat yellow house in a city called Maywood. Starting a [...]
Editorial I was moving from Virginia to Colorado in the summer of 2010 when I stopped for a visit at my family’s home, adjacent to the Susquehannock State Forest in northcentral Pennsylvania. That’s when I heard the words [...]
Food Chemical Regulations Rely Heavily on Industry Self-Policing and Lack Transparency by The PEW Charitable Trusts Safety decisions concerning one-third of the more than 10,000 substances that may be added to human food were made by food manufacturers [...]
EPA Hears Testimony on Proposed New Source Performance Standards and National Emission Standards for Oil & Natural Gas Hazardous Air Pollutants The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) heard 103 pubic testimonies for over 11 hours in Pittsburgh at [...]
As part of the suit, the groups asked the Department of Pesticide Regulation to release documents explaining how the agency decided to approve the chemical. The plaintiffs wanted to know how the agency had settled on exposure levels more than 100 times higher than what scientists within the agency believed were safe.
Researchers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England, recorded a case of a leptin-deficient girl who ate enormous meals and constantly demanded snacks. After a year of leptin treatment, she lost weight and reported that she no longer felt constantly hungry. Berridge called leptin-deficient people “proof of the logical possibility that something like a food addiction exists.”
Americans’ appetite for meat and dairy – billions of pounds a year from billions of animals – takes a toll on our health, the environment, climate and animal welfare. Producing all this meat and dairy requires large amounts of pesticides, chemical fertilizer, fuel, feed and water. It also generates greenhouse gases and large amounts of toxic manure and wastewater that pollute groundwater, rivers, streams and, ultimately, the ocean. In addition, eating large quantities of beef and processed meats increases your exposure to toxins and is linked to higher rates of health problems, including heart disease, cancer and obesity.