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Oct 19, 2019

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Good River: Our reporters want to hear your Ohio River stories and concerns

Environmental Health News has teamed up with six other news organizations to cover what often seems to be the most underappreciated water asset in the country: the Ohio River.

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A blooming problem

The Chesapeake contains some 700 species of algae. Most don’t cause problems. But when algae does bloom, and creates toxins, it can devastate water bodies as well as economies. With warmer waters coming, could the blooms that happened in Florida in the summer of 2018 happen here?

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Researcher Pat Hunt at her Washington State University lab. (Credit: Lynne Peeples)

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Exposed: On the edge of research honesty

This is part 2 of a 4-part investigation of the science surrounding the chemical BPA and the U.S. regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

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Clouded in Clarity: A comic on chemicals & controversy

Harmful chemicals are difficult to understand. So, to pair with our investigation, "Exposed" we present EHN's first comic, "Clouded in Clarity," which focuses on BPA and the controversy around an ongoing, massive study on it.

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Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time

Produced by traffic, nanoparticles are already known to invade the brain and can carry carcinogens

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Toxics

EPA finalizes $72M cleanup plan for S. Jersey Superfund site. Sierra Club calls it a ‘Band-Aid.’

Contaminated soil on 10 acres that are part of scrapyard operations will only be required to be covered with asphalt, a move the environmental group calls a "Band-Aid."

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Researchers Ana Soto, Carlos Sonnenschein and Silva Krause looking at mammary glands from a BPA experiment at Tufts University. (Credit: Ana Soto)

Originals

Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies

We all are exposed daily to bisphenol-A (BPA) and other bisphenols – estrogen-like substances added to food can liners, paper receipts and plastic containers.

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BPA testing in the lab of Cheryl Rosenfeld, a University of Missouri researcher. (Credit: Cheryl Rosenfeld)

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Exposed: A scientific stalemate leaves our hormones and health at risk

This is part 1 of a 4-part investigation of the science surrounding the chemical BPA and the U.S. regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

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Children

EPA to limit science used to write public health rules

A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.

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Pittsburgh's Neville Island residents could have been drinking PFAS-contaminated water for a month, township officials say

South Atlantic Humpback Whales Have Rebounded From Near Extinction - Yale E360

Good River: Our reporters want to hear your Ohio River stories and concerns

Exposed: On the edge of research honesty

Clouded in Clarity: A comic on chemicals & controversy

Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time

EPA finalizes $72M cleanup plan for S. Jersey Superfund site. Sierra Club calls it a ‘Band-Aid.’

Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies

Exposed: A scientific stalemate leaves our hormones and health at risk

EPA to limit science used to write public health rules

Exposed: Deciphering the real message about BPA

"The government keeps testing chemicals for safety using the same old approaches developed 50 years ago"

Exposed: Toward a BPA-free future

What will it take to rid our store shelves of BPA and its equally hazardous cousins?

EHN reporter: Here's how Pittsburgh journalists should cover the LGBTQ+ community

An upcoming event aims to empower reporters to get it right.

Appalachia is transitioning from coal. Here’s what it could learn from Germany.

Lessons from environmental and economic restoration efforts in the Ruhr Valley could help usher Appalachia into a new era.

Pittsburgh's Neville Island residents could have been drinking PFAS-contaminated water for a month, township officials say

Test results show that the drinking water is currently safe.

Peter Dykstra: Clearing up some myths about the seven—yes, seven—Koch Brothers

Only one is currently active in disemboweling American democracy.

South Atlantic Humpback Whales Have Rebounded From Near Extinction - Yale E360

"The government keeps testing chemicals for safety using the same old approaches developed 50 years ago"

What will it take to rid our store shelves of BPA and its equally hazardous cousins?

An upcoming event aims to empower reporters to get it right.

Lessons from environmental and economic restoration efforts in the Ruhr Valley could help usher Appalachia into a new era.

Test results show that the drinking water is currently safe.

Only one is currently active in disemboweling American democracy.

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