Norfolk Southern Mandated to Reduce Train Accidents: Investigative Report...
In a safety recommendation letter to the FRA dated two years before the collision in Graniteville ever happened, then-NTSB Chairwoman Ellen Engleman Conners wrote that “Safety Board railroad accident...
View ArticleDemocrats New Report on Hydraulic Fracturing Highlights Toxic Risks to...
That list includes 29 chemicals that are either known or possible carcinogens or are regulated by the federal government because of other risks to human health. As we reported more than a year ago,...
View ArticleScience Ignored on Dangers of Methyl Iodide Fumigant for Strawberry Production
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...
View ArticleFuture Unknown: Praying for the Health and Safety of My Family
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...
View ArticleFracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Water: The EPA Rules Out Agriculture
EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer by Abrahm Lustgarten for ProPublica As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking,...
View ArticleShale Oil Boom Ignites Economic Revival Alongside Natural Gas: Critics Argue...
by energyNOW One of America’s biggest energy challenges is foreign oil dependency. The U.S. imports about half the oil it uses, putting the nation’s energy security at risk and costing hundreds of...
View ArticleThe Safety of Radioactive Energy: Nuclear Relicensing Across the U.S.
by CIR Danger Zone: Aging nuclear reactors Despite the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan last March, nuclear power is experiencing a rebirth in the United States. Billions of dollars in federal funding...
View ArticleA Reemergence of Black Lung for Coal Workers
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...
View ArticleAfter 22 Years EPA Changes Pesticide Protections for Farmworkers, But Don’t...
Long-awaited EPA pesticide protections a ‘mixed bag’ for farmworkers by Ronnie Greene for Public Integrity Ushering in what it called “milestone” changes to better protect the nation’s farmworkers...
View ArticlePermit Allows Fracking Waste Storage in Backyards, Community Fights Back
Correction: DEP’s record office originally informed Public Herald and our sources that only 28 WMGR123 permits were issued for the entire state. But upon further questioning our #fileroom File Team...
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