Showing posts with label arsenic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arsenic. Show all posts
Thursday, April 1, 2021
We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals | US news | The Guardian
In a nine-month investigation by the Guardian and Consumer Reports we found forever chemicals, arsenic and lead in samples taken across the US...
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Arsenic in drinking water damages hearts of young adults, study says - CNN
Young adults exposed to arsenic in drinking water showed signs of damaged hearts within five years, study says...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/health/drinking-water-arsenic-cardiovascular-risk/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/health/drinking-water-arsenic-cardiovascular-risk/index.html
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Study estimates 15,000 cancer cases could stem from chemicals in California tap water - CNN
A new study finds that chemicals in tap water like arsenic, hexavalent chromium, and uranium are hidden cancer threats in our faucets.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/health/water-quality-cancer-risk-california-study/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/health/water-quality-cancer-risk-california-study/index.html
Monday, August 28, 2017
Taxpayers Pay Cost for Coal Companies to Pollute
Dalal Aboulhosn, the Sierra Club's Deputy Legislative Director for Land and Water, says EPA Director Scott Pruitt is ignoring true costs and benefits in his support for coal companies' "bottom line"....
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQkzV9gx4KQ&feature=youtu.be
Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQkzV9gx4KQ&feature=youtu.be
Monday, August 22, 2016
An Indiana City Is Poised To Become The Next Flint
Akeeshea Daniels first suspected something was off when her two toddlers came down with scarlet fever. It was 2004, and she just moved her family into a spacious public housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana.
“I looked it up. Scarlet fever hasn’t been a problem since the ‘50s,” she said. “It was something straight out of a history book.”
But when she brought her concerns to the East Chicago Housing Authority — the manager of her public housing complex— she was brushed off. “They told me it was my fault for not cleaning well enough,” she said. “I had toddlers! I was cleaning every day. And then things kept happening.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/40-years-in-the-dark-public-housing-residents-have-been-living-on-toxic-soil-for-decades-4c6c3927edba#.sekude13w
“I looked it up. Scarlet fever hasn’t been a problem since the ‘50s,” she said. “It was something straight out of a history book.”
But when she brought her concerns to the East Chicago Housing Authority — the manager of her public housing complex— she was brushed off. “They told me it was my fault for not cleaning well enough,” she said. “I had toddlers! I was cleaning every day. And then things kept happening.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/40-years-in-the-dark-public-housing-residents-have-been-living-on-toxic-soil-for-decades-4c6c3927edba#.sekude13w
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