Topic: The Associated Press
It's considered the gold standard in playground safety. A new study currently underway by the Environmental Protection Agency cites a lack of information about the potential risks of repeated exposure to the chemicals in the tires which often include carcinogens. The EPA's ...
Despite the Environmental Protection Agency's endorsement of using bits of rubber tire to cushion children's playgrounds, the agency is now concerned that it doesn't have enough data about the potential health risks of the chemicals in the rubber material, according to the ...
Senate panel to consider measure to study pharmaceuticals released by factories, other sourcesA proposal in the U.S. Senate would require a government study of pharmaceuticals and personal care products released by factories and other sources into waterways that often supply drinking water. ...
Manufacturers release tons of pharmaceuticals into US water suppliesU.S. "It doesn't pass the straight-face test to say pharmaceutical manufacturers are not emitting any of the compounds they're creating," said Kyla Bennett, who spent 10 years as an EPA enforcement officer before becoming ...
Carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded in what's considered a first step to regulating industrial, power plant and vehicle pollutants that cause climate change.. The EPA's ...
Critics say EPA, states do little to ensure that underground storage of coal slurry is safeRegulators in a handful of Appalachian states that let coal companies inject slurry into abandoned mines say they're confident the practice is safe, but an Associated Press ...
Research reveals highest recorded level of pharmaceutical waste detected entering India streamWhen researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Until Larsson's research, there had been widespread consensus ...
You may well have drugs in your tap water.If you drink bottled water, don't be reassured. Forty percent of bottled water is just bottled tap water -- and the rest is largely unregulated for quality.The evidence that we have prescription drugs in ...
House panel pressed to consider more tracking of pharmaceuticals, contaminants in US watersPollution experts pressed a congressional panel Thursday for a new national approach that monitors the country's waters more broadly for the presence and impact of hundreds of recently detected contaminants ...
Health care industry sends tons of drugs into nation's wastewater systemU.S. Also, researchers report that human cells fail to grow normally in the laboratory when exposed to trace concentrations of certain drugs.The original AP series in March prompted federal and local legislative ...
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