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Arsenic in Water at EPA Approved Standards Linked to Heart Disease

11/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) What comes to mind when you think of arsenic? For most people, it conjures up a deadly poison used by killers in fictional mystery novels and some real-life murderers, too. But the danger of this toxic substance most often comes not from...

Pharmaceuticals in the Water: Why Medication Contamination is a Danger to Our Health and the Environment (transcript)

11/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Welcome everyone. I'm the Health Ranger, Mike Adams. Today we're talking about the dangers of chemicals in your tap water. The Associated Press has done a study, and they're reporting today that all kinds of chemicals are found in your...

The EPA Refuses to Remove Rocket Fuel From Drinking Water

10/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) The EPA has apparently decided that it is not necessary to remove from our drinking water a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has been found in public water supplies in the United States. The EPA reached this conclusion in a draft regulatory...

Maryland to Sue U.S. Army Over Groundwater and Soil Contamination

10/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) The citizens of Maryland are fed up with the U.S. Army for failing to comply with a clean-up order issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a year ago, according to an article in the Baltimore Sun by Timothy B. Wheeler....

Pentagon Is Fighting the EPA About Pollution Clean Up Efforts

9/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) Any guesses who the U.S.’s largest polluter is? Would it surprise you to hear that it is the Defense Department? Probably not that surprising if you think it through. How about this, though. The Defense Department is currently resisting...

U.S. Food and Water Supply Poisoned by Perchlorate

9/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) According to a report by the Organic Consumers Association, a toxic chemical that is a byproduct of rocket fuel is rapidly poisoning the food and water supply in the United States. Known as perchlorate, this chemical has been found in 93%...

Broken Compact Fluorescent Lights Release Mercury Into the Air: Over 100 Times the EPA Limit

8/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) Compact fluorescent light bulbs can release dangerous amounts of mercury into the air when they break and must be disposed of very carefully, according to a report by the state of Maine. Compact fluorescent bulbs, which consume only...

EPA, American Chemistry Council Conspire to Remove Toxicologist From Panel on Flame Retardant Safety

8/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dismissed an award-winning neurotoxin specialist from a toxicology review panel in August, in compliance with a request from the industry lobby group the American Chemical Council. Deborah Rice,...

What's on Tap and What You Need to Know About Drinking Water

8/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action organization, recently conducted an in-depth study into the quality of drinking water across the United States. Reviewing the tap water quality data for 19 major U.S....

EPA Reduces Value of Human Life

7/31/2008 - (NaturalNews) Were you aware that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regularly estimates the “value of statistical life?” Five years ago the EPA estimated the value of one human life to be $7.8 million and as of May, 2008 the estimation was...

EPA Forces California to Abandon New Limits on Automobile Emissions

7/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rejected a petition by California and 12 other states to set stricter standards on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles than those put in place by the federal government. Greenhouse...

The Poisoning of America's Water Supplies

7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) Every day in the United States more than 240 million people turn on their faucets in order to drink, bathe, and cook, using water from public water systems. But more people are arriving to the point where they will not let a drop of water...

Legal Action Filed to Outlaw Nano-Silver Products

6/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) The International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) and a group of consumer, health, and environmental groups have filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency demanding the agency use its pesticide regulation authority...

American Chemical Council is now EPA's Lead Research Partner

6/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) The American Chemical Council has become the number one research partner of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to documents obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). PEER warns that an increasing...

Common Dry Cleaning Chemicals Pose a Cancer Risk

6/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) When you drive home after picking up your clothes from the dry cleaners do you sometimes notice a faint chemical smell on the clothes? More than likely your garments were cleaned with dangerous chemicals that could harm the workers, the...

FDA Opens Public Comment for Safety of Mercury in Dentistry (Action Alert)

5/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) Under intensifying consumer group pressure, the FDA has announced that it will open public comment regarding its proposed ruling on the classification of dental mercury amalgam materials. The more we learn about mercury amalgams the more...

What Is the Chemical Industry's Influence at the EPA?

5/12/2008 - (NaturalNews) Americans depend upon sound science to ensure that consumer products are safe. If there is undue influence over this science, then the public's health may be compromised. Are there inappropriate ties between the chemical industry and...

Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Continued Use of Four Pesticides

5/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children,...

Lawsuit Filed to Halt Use of Dangerous Pesticides

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) A 1996 federal law required the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the safety of all pesticides and to rule by 2006 whether they could be used on foods safely. The EPA found four pesticides posed risks to human health but decided...

A Deeper Look At Drugs In Our Tap Water

4/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) Picture this: Three guys go into a bar. The batender asks, “What’ll you have?” "A beer", says the first guy. Second one says, “Whiskey” and turning to the third guy asks, “what about you?” “Oh me, I really need a good strong kick, one with...

Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced

3/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the...

Medication Pollution Spreads: Water Supply of 24 U.S. Cities Found Contaminated with Pharmaceuticals

3/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Analysis of tap water supplies in major metropolitan areas conducted by the Associated Press has revealed that the water supply in 24 major U.S. cities -- serving over 40 million people -- are contaminated with trace amounts of pharmaceuticals...

EPA, American Chemistry Council Conspire to Remove Toxicologist Deborah Rice from Panel on Flame Retardant Safety

3/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dismissed an award-winning neurotoxin specialist from a toxicology review panel in August, in compliance with a request from the industry lobby group the American Chemical Council. Deborah Rice,...

$74.5 Million Set for the Spraying of Toxic Chemicals Over San Francisco

3/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) I am angry! On January 24th, 2008, United States Department of (USDA) Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner announced the availability of $74.5 million in emergency funding to combat the light brown apple moth (LBAM) infestation in California...

Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues...

2/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now,...

Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government's Aerial Spraying

12/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now,...

Safety concerns surface over switch to energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights

11/25/2007 - (NaturalNews) Although compact fluorescent lightbulbs have become a favorite symbol of energy efficiency, and though several state and national governments have passed or are considering legislation to ban the older incandescent bulbs, compact fluorescents...

The greenwashing of toxic consumer products

11/12/2007 - Have you noticed over the last year how virtually every large corporation is trying to make consumers believe their products are "Earth friendly?" Everything from toxic cosmetics to smog-producing cars are now being positioned as "green" products, and...

Governor Schwarzenegger Backs Aerial Biochemical Spraying That Harms Children

10/25/2007 - (NaturalNews) On September 9th, 2007 several planes hired by the State of California Food and Agricultural Department (CDFA) flying at an altitude of approximately 500ft sprayed the untested biochemical, CheckMate®OLR-F, on over 30,000...

Pesticides in Food and the Home: Warnings and Alternatives

10/12/2007 - (NaturalNews) Pests in the home are a big problem for many. Standard treatments rely on poison in the home to kill the invaders which often return anyway, but the poison is not specially designed to only hurt certain types of living creatures, so it is...

Common crop herbicide Atrazine linked to reproductive mutations in amphibians

8/27/2007 - Pollutants such as pesticides and toxins damage the ecosystem and cause a variety of damaging ailments in humans. One particular herbicide, Atrazine, has now been found to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites, rendering them impotent by causing their...

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