‘Them plants are killing us’: Inside a cross-border battle against cancer and pollution

Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant.

This investigation is a cross-border collaboration between The Narwhal and Environmental Health News.

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Toxics

EPA sidesteps normal public process to approve BASF’s cancer-linked pesticide

This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that soybean farmers in 25 states are now able to spray a pesticide that the agency has determined is likely to cause cancer and drift hundreds of feet from where it is applied.

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Children

There’s a link between exposure to environmental hazards and the most severe outcomes of coronavirus

Check out this COVID-19 community vulnerability map.

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www.eenews.net

Toxics

Years of toxic leaks raise cancer risk in refinery town

Industrial pollution is a risk factor in the era of COVID-19. But an oil refinery in Artesia, N.M., poses a heightened threat to residents: It has some the nation's highest annual emissions of cancer-causing benzene after a decade of slack government oversight.

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Justice

How vulnerable is your community to coronavirus? These new maps reveal a familiar pattern

“Our most heavily weighted and frequent determining risk factor was air quality.”

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www.courthousenews.com

Children

Lawsuit linking child cancer to aerospace plant hangs in the balance

Cynthia Santiago was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2009 at the age of 13 while living in a South Florida community known as the Acreage.

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Justice

Cancer Alley: Fury as new chemical plant rises in town battling toxic pollution

Plastics factory will not only contribute to pollution in heavily polluted Louisiana town, but will also be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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theintercept.com

Children

EPA rule changes will increase coronavirus deaths

The sustained effects of air pollution appear to make people particularly vulnerable to the effects of the coronavirus.

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ensia.com

Children

This little-known principle has harmed millions of people. What are we doing to change it?

The Kehoe paradigm assumes a lack of risk unless proven otherwise. Here's why that's a problem, and how people are working to find a better way.

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thehill.com

Opinion

Claudia Polsky, Tim Whitehouse, Tom Bruton: Hazardous chemicals and government silence — a dangerous mix

PFAS are toxic chemicals found on non-stick pans, water-repellent clothing, and other household items, and the EPA should move to legally designate them as "hazardous."

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Children

DDT’s toxic legacy could span three generations

Studies have struggled to link DDT and cancer. This library of frozen blood could be the key to understanding why.

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www.northcarolinahealthnews.org

Toxics

NC State to establish PFAS research center

The NC State center will expand on existing studies and take a deeper look into getting rid of what have been dubbed 'forever chemicals.'

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Toxics

Military sees surge in sites with 'forever chemical' contamination

The military now has at least 651 sites that have been contaminated with cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” a more than 50 percent jump from its last tally.

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Toxics

Can you get cancer from water near Scott Air Force Base?

The number of known military sites where cancer-linked firefighting foam may have contaminated groundwater across the United States has jumped to 651 from 401, and the cleanup bill will likely cost billions of dollars more than initially estimated, according to a new Pentagon report.

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Children

Decades-long project is linking our health to the environment

Started in 1959, this California study is one of the oldest ongoing research projects in the world.

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‘Them plants are killing us’: Inside a cross-border battle against cancer and pollution

Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant.

EPA sidesteps normal public process to approve BASF’s cancer-linked pesticide

There’s a link between exposure to environmental hazards and the most severe outcomes of coronavirus

Years of toxic leaks raise cancer risk in refinery town

How vulnerable is your community to coronavirus? These new maps reveal a familiar pattern

Lawsuit linking child cancer to aerospace plant hangs in the balance

Cancer Alley: Fury as new chemical plant rises in town battling toxic pollution

EPA rule changes will increase coronavirus deaths

This little-known principle has harmed millions of people. What are we doing to change it?

Claudia Polsky, Tim Whitehouse, Tom Bruton: Hazardous chemicals and government silence — a dangerous mix

DDT’s toxic legacy could span three generations

NC State to establish PFAS research center

Military sees surge in sites with 'forever chemical' contamination

Can you get cancer from water near Scott Air Force Base?

Decades-long project is linking our health to the environment

Coronavirus, climate change, and the environment

A conversation on COVID-19 with the director of Harvard University's Center of Climate, Health and the Global Environment.

Patrick Holden: The coronavirus pandemic and future food security

UK farmer and sustainable food advocate on why now is the time to build resilience and health into our food systems—from the ground up.

Kids with asthma who live near heavy air pollution face greater risk from coronavirus

"There's a lot of concern about combined effects of air pollution and respiratory viruses."

Agents of Change: Amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Climate change: For big emissions reductions, we need to think small

"Big new infrastructure costing billions is not the best way to accelerate decarbonization"

Trump Administration is using a pandemic to hand out gifts to its favorite polluters

The Trump Administration is using COVID-19 to further its dismantling of environmental protection.

Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant.

A conversation on COVID-19 with the director of Harvard University's Center of Climate, Health and the Global Environment.

UK farmer and sustainable food advocate on why now is the time to build resilience and health into our food systems—from the ground up.

"There's a lot of concern about combined effects of air pollution and respiratory viruses."

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

"Big new infrastructure costing billions is not the best way to accelerate decarbonization"

The Trump Administration is using COVID-19 to further its dismantling of environmental protection.

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