This is a chance to eradicate this common benzene exposure in our community, and reduce smog. » full text

You are invited to provide comments and/or information on the possibility of requiring Stage II Vapor Recovery systems at gasoline stations in Pima County in Arizona.  » full text

Veterans hospitals in 13 states are not reporting cases to state registries and are preventing state health officials from conducting case-finding audits, threatening the validity of epidemiological research and US cancer statistics » full text

By Frank X. Mullen RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL The discovery of radioactive polonium-210 in 25 Fallon-area drinking water wells forced two dairy farms to dump their milk Friday and the farms will cease selling milk until their supplies are tested by the... » full text

FACT notes: Coke and Safeway reluctantly take poison out of their drinks; Pepsi and others want to keep it in » full text

OSHA) has wrongfully withheld data documenting years of beryllium exposures to workers and its own inspectors » full text

A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.  » full text

Why is there so much leukemia in Fallon, NV? By AngryToxicologist | May 15, 2007 The city of Fallon (pop. 7,536) is in Churchill County, NV. It is surrounded by melon and alfalfa fields, a Naval Air Station, and two... » full text

LA Times Of the 216 compounds, many in the air, food or everyday items. By Marla Cone Times Staff Writer More than 200 chemicals, many found in urban air and everyday consumer products, cause breast cancer in animal tests, according... » full text

11 May 2007 NewScientist.com news service Aria Pearson An alarmingly high number of people living in houses built on top of a disused oilfield in New Mexico have been diagnosed with the autoimmune disease lupus. It is the latest... » full text

By CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the risk from formaldehyde fumes in new government-issued travel trailers, which has cropped up as an issue since Hurricane Katrina, can be reduced by... » full text

A new survey reveals that state health agencies lack the expertise and resources to identify or study potential clusters of cancer, other chronic diseases, and birth defects by Bryant Furlow Epi News Each year, state health departments receive over a... » full text

CREDIBILITY The Patriot News Friday, March 23, 2007 Pennsylvania - The Berks County commissioners this week voted to spend $44,000 to hire an out-of-state independent consultant to study a possible cancer cluster in the Muhlenberg School District. Commissioners Mark C.... » full text

Durkit family Dale Durkit died of AML leukemia on Sunday March 11, 2007. He leaves behind his wife, Kelly, and their three young children, Cody, 10, Jessica, 8 and Chelsie, 5. His oldest child, Kellie, is from a previous... » full text

It seems life hands some families more than their share of tragedy.  » full text

Dr. Phillip Winger, left, dean of student life for Susquehanna University, speaks Sunday during an informational meeting regarding environnmental safety at Susquehanna University’s Weber Chapel Michael Bavero/The Daily Item CANCER CONCERNS Vigorous hunt for cancer links promised Parents, students promised... » full text

From The Morning Call March 11, 2007 Why is thyroid cancer rate up? One research group thinks it knows the answer: fallout from nuclear power plants. By Ann Wlazelek Of The Morning Call this year, which is about 2 percent... » full text

By Dana Cole Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA — After sustaining a couple of scrapes at work — one on his hand and one on his shin — Dale Durkit got some alarming news. Despite all the appropriate care, antibiotics and visits... » full text

SIERRA VISTA — Another child from this area has been diagnosed with leukemia. » full text

Toxic chemicals don’t just hurt us in big doses. An environmental oncologist argues that myriad tiny amounts of cancer-causing agents in our environment—and even in our shampoo—can make us sick. At Risk? A recent study found that para-dioxane in some... » full text

Benzene found at 380 times higher than EPA standard in downtown Tucson. » full text

By Rob O'Dell ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson officials found groundwater contaminated with gasoline Downtown, during testing for another contaminant near the Tucson Convention Center. The city's Environmental services Department found benzene levels - a hazardous chemical found in gasoline -... » full text

Our view: Install vapor recovery nozzles on pumps statewide to protect motorists from breathing potentially deadly pollutants  » full text

Commission Votes 15-1 to Protect Health of Maine Children and Firefighters  » full text

Lifelong damage is found in 13-year study of 3,600 Southland youngsters living within 500 yards of a highway » full text

Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases may be far more common than most people had believed » full text

Lily Mae Doyle SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- Lily Mae Doyle passed away Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007. Our angel Lily was born in Salisbury in February 2004 and relocated to Sierra Vista in June 2005. She was diagnosed with AML cancer... » full text

U.S. quadruples limits for release of toxic material  » full text

Living on Earth Interview Dr. Lennart Hardell works in the Department of Oncology at the Örebro Medical Centre, in Örebro, Sweden (Courtesy of Dr. Lennart Hardell) A new study finds a number of the world's leading cancer scientists were secretly... » full text

No toxic exposures have been detected to explain this city's alarming cluster of childhood leukemia cases. » full text

Federal health officials have not found an environmental cause for a childhood leukemia cluster in the Sierra Vista area. » full text

A new study in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine reveals that Sir Richard Doll had a financial relationship with Monsanto Co. while working on an influential paper minimizing the role chemicals play in cancer. Doll also failed to disclose... » full text

Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review report SIERRA VISTA — Local residents will soon be learning the results of a Centers for Disease Control study of childhood leukemia in the Sierra Vista area. The CDC and the Cochise County Health... » full text

From The New Zealand Herald By Errol Kiong Little by little, the enigma of childhood leukaemia is beginning to unravel. Its causes remain a mystery but Dr Ian Morison from Otago University's Cancer Genetics Laboratory knows that acute lymphoblastic... » full text

Pollution causes "pandemic" of autism, attention deficit syndrome, mental retardation and cerebral palsy. » full text

10.24.06 It's a discovery that could explain a host of medical mysteries. Contrary to what scientists thought, your diet, the pollution you're exposed to and even your behavior can lead to effects that are inherited by your children, grandchildren,... » full text

September 27, 2006 An Arkansas jury took only 21 minutes on Sept. 25 to rule in favor of a company that was sued for selling a chicken feed that plaintiffs alleged contributed to a Prairie Grove boy's leukemia seven years... » full text

A statement opposing plans to build a waste-to-energy plant on city property near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was approved by the City Council. » full text

The health and environmental impacts of a proposed incinerator on the Southeast Side were among the concerns. » full text

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor The Independent (U.K.) Published: 14 September 2006 Cancer is rising rapidly among children across Europe and the increase shows no sign of slowing, researchers have found. The rate of the increase - up 17... » full text

Famillies in the Sierra Vista childhood leukemia cluster were scheduled to meet with a team of CDC experts on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, to hear the results of the bio-sampling for environmental chemicals in their bodies. But last week the... » full text

A trash-burning plant proposed by Davis-Monthan Air Force Base has become a combustible issue for the City Council.  » full text

Former tungsten mill left toxic metals » full text

A Debt Unpaid Editorial   New York Times Vieques, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, made headlines a few years back when environmental activists engaged in civil disobedience aimed at forcing the Navy to stop using it... » full text

A coalition of 14 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands today petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require pesticide manufacturers to disclose on the label of their products all hazardous ingredients. More disclosure will lead to greater consumer... » full text

EPA found dioxin during test of landfill’s ashes » full text

CLYDE, OHIO -- Imagine wondering if the very city you live in could be making your children sick. Wondering if you moved, would they be healthier? There have been lots of questions and few answers for families around the... » full text

In 1982 our family was living on the southside of Tucson, Ariz., in a primarily working class and Latino neighborhood not far from the airport. » full text

AZ Star editorial in favor of proposed 'waste-to-energy' facility » full text

Bush Administration dismantling environmental protections via covert methods. » full text

CURRENT DATA ARE SUFFICIENT FOR EPA TO FINALIZE RISK ASSESSMENT » full text

A LEADING Liverpool scientist is calling for an investigation into a childhood cancer cluster around a nuclear plant which pumps radioactive waste in an open channel through housing estates. » full text

Tucson's Southeast Side may become home to the region's first trash-burning plant as the military seeks an alternative power source for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. » full text

The U.S. Air Force is asking the city of Tucson to give a little extra for the sake of national defense. » full text

TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT Cancer Answers Found In Baby Teeth? WATERFORD, Conn. -- A controversial study collecting children's baby teeth could shed light on rising cancer rates. Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Kara Sundlun recently spoke with model and activist... » full text

(Phoenix, Ariz.) Attorney General Terry Goddard and Department of Environmental Quality Director Steve Owens today announced a $75,000 settlement resolving air quality violations against a boat manufacturer, North American Sleek Craft, Inc. The company owns and operates a fiberglass... » full text

Firefighters Exposed to PCBs While Training More Than 20 Years Ago In Anne Arundel Seek a Study of Their Illness  » full text

By Jennifer Bails and Luis Fabregas PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW The brain cancer afflicting Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O'Connor points to a deadly, inexplicable trend. Since the early 1970s, there has been a staggering increase in the incidence rate of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a... » full text

Published: 07.12.2006 Airport to build treatment plant Second facility will help remove TCE from water By Ken Sweet ARIZONA DAILY STAR The Tucson Airport Authority board on Tuesday voted Tuesday to award the Ashton Co. a $3.5 million contract to... » full text

Sellafield, U.K.--The debate about what caused childhood cancers around the nuclear complex has ignited again, explains Roger Highfield Some ideas seem so plausible, so simple and so dazzlingly logical that they acquire a life of their own, even when the... » full text

Science News Online Week of July 8, 2006; Vol. 170, No. 2 by Janet Raloff U.S. agriculture has developed a heavy reliance on chemicals to safeguard crops from yield-robbing weeds. However, many of those herbicides can pose substantial health risks to people,... » full text

In an extraordinary letter of protest, representatives for 10,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are asking Congress to stop the Bush administration from closing the agency's network of technical research libraries.  » full text

Using hair dye may increase the risk of a type of cancer known as lymphoma, a European study shows. » full text

State examining '00 to '05 numbers Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 07/1/06 BY JEAN MIKLE TOMS RIVER BUREAU DOVER TOWNSHIP — The state Department of Health and Senior Services will soon undertake an analysis to determine if... » full text

Jessica Berger and her son, Chase CLYDE, OHIO -- It's become a scary question for many families in and around Clyde. Why are there so many children being diagnosed with cancer? So far, nine cases have been confirmed affecting... » full text

Disease clusters near a former Air Force base contaminated with TCE, PCE, heavy metals, and more. » full text

While O'odham in Mexico were never told about a planned hazardous waste dump being permitted in their sacred ceremonial community of Quitovac, documents show the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency knew about the dump nearly one year before O'odham in Mexico were informed. » full text

Don't Buy Brush Ceramic's "Just Trust Us" Campaign Tucson Citizen, April 14, 2005. The authors of this article submitted a correction to FACT. There is a missing decimal point in the original article. The beryllium levels were actually at 3.0... » full text

Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:05 PM ET By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with the highest levels of cadmium in their urine have more than a two-fold higher risk of breast cancer than women with... » full text

By Marla Cone Los Angeles Times Teenagers in Los Angeles and New York City face a substantial - and strikingly similar - cancer risk from breathing the air, largely because of toxic chemicals inside their homes and schools, a... » full text

Some fear history may be repeating itself when it comes to toxins on the southside of Tucson » full text

How much disease could be prevented through better management of our environment? The environment influences our health in many ways - through exposures to physical, chemical and biological risk factors, and through related changes in our behaviour in response to... » full text

A two-part expose on the effects of pollution from coal-fired power plants on young athletes. » full text

June 15, 2006 Report by The Center for American Progress Twenty-six years ago, just as President Ronald Reagan took office, Congress created the “Superfund,” a multi-billion dollar environmental program designed to inventory and clean up the nation’s worst abandoned... » full text

Martin Shipton, Cardiff Western Mail Cardiff, Wales -- Cancer rates in villages near the Trawsfynydd power station are 'alarmingly high' leading to new concerns about the side-effects of nuclear power, a new investigation reveals. The study claims that women under... » full text

ENVIRONMENTALIST RICHARD CLAPP | MEETING THE MINDS By Andrew Rimas, Globe Correspondent | June 5, 2006 It's almost a cliché: the leaking oil drum, the sludge pool, the child splashing in a river laced with mercury and industrial solvents. Sadly,... » full text

A Report on Pollution in Canadian Families Polluted Children, Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadian Families builds on the findings of Environmental Defence's study Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadians (2005), and contributes important new information... » full text

Pending Pesticide Approvals Trouble EPA Scientists WASHINGTON, DC, May 26, 2006 (ENS) - Representatives for thousands of scientists and risk managers with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are objecting to imminent agency approval for more than 20 neurotoxic pesticides,... » full text

Exposure to chemicals at this British computer chip plant lead to brain and breast tumors which are four to five times higher than normal rate. » full text

The Tucson Weekly profiles advocates of researching disease clusters, such as Families Against Cancer & Toxics, Families In Search of Truth, and independent researchers like Mark Witten and Paul Sheppard. » full text

A Call for Efforts to Determine the Sources, Levels of Exposure, and Risks that Industrial Chemicals Pose to Children’s Health Almost 120 million children live in North America. Many of them face economic, social and environmental challenges every day. More... » full text

Phthalates, flame retardants, 27 carcinogenic pesticides, and 67 endocrine disrupters found in homes raise questions about the safety of everyday products. » full text

FDNY rescuers who sucked in toxic air while working at Ground Zero lost the equivalent of 12 years of lung function after the World Trade Center attacks » full text

The pollen from trees and grasses that produces allergic reactions in millions of people is steadily increasing with rising temperatures » full text

The curse of the mobile phone age: around your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer  By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor The Independent Invisible "smog", created by the... » full text

FACT note: This bill (SB 1356) is a huge give-away to corporate polluters. Industry is happy to poison us just so they can save a buck. Call the Governor today. See the full description from the Sierra Club, below: ****... » full text

Scientists who exposed pregnant mice to a combination of arsenic and tungsten said the metals resulted in genetic changes in the offspring -- mutations related to development of leukemia and brain cancer. » full text

Scientists found that the offspring of pregnant rats exposed to the metals tungsten and arsenic developed changes in genes consistent with leukemia and brain cancer.  » full text

Cancer of the thyroid gland is rising in the United States » full text

For 50 years, tobacco companies employed a stable of scientists to challenge the evidence that cigarettes caused lung cancer.  » full text

By Bryant Jordan Air Force Times staff writer For nearly two decades the Air Force has engaged in a pattern or practice of failing to respond in a timely way to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by a research... » full text

Noxious vapors taint area north of Downtown By Tony Davis ARIZONA DAILY STAR The state will soon start sucking gaseous contamination out of soil beneath an old dry-cleaning business north of Downtown. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality will use... » full text

Senator Durbin offers ear, action Vows follow-up on tritium after meeting By Jo Ann Hustis Herald Writer GODLEY, Illinois – Mick Sheck will enter the hospital Thursday for intestinal cancer surgery. “I’m 35 years old,” the Smiley Road resident said... » full text

Join with groups to share successful precautionary strategies, tools, policies and programs. Build the movement for precautionary action to prevent harm from environmental hazards. The conference features over 35 workshops on: More than 50 model local, state and national... » full text

Administrator Stephen Johnson United States Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20460 April 16, 2006 Dear Administrator Johnson: Families Against Cancer & Toxics (FACT) appreciates the opportunity to comment on Docket ID Numbers EPA-HQ-OAR-2001-0017 and EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0018. FACT... » full text

Says event focuses on survivorship and prevention, not advocacy » full text

900 homes are under construction next to this facility EPA has called a "high priority offender." » full text

Toledo Blade Tuesday, March 28, 2006 ELMORE, Ohio - A federal agency announced yesterday that it will offer free testing for beryllium sensitization for people living or working near the Brush Wellman Inc. facility here. The Agency for Toxic Substances... » full text

Alison Young - Staff Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rarely the subject of public controversy, is facing an emerging credibility crisis on the emotional issue of whether old-style vaccines containing a mercury preservative caused autism in... » full text

Startling as it may be, nobody really knows how safe -- or dangerous -- most cosmetics may be.  » full text

Toxic Tour: The "Father of Environmental Justice" comes to townTucson Weekly, April 6, 2006. Tucson environmental health activists go on ‘Toxic Tour’ this afternoon at 3pm; Visit sites of environmental justice concern, hold community forum with whistleblower on beryllium poisoning... » full text

On nearly every block surrounding the former Kelly Air Force Base, small purple crosses sprout from front lawns, marking the homes where cancer has struck. » full text

In the mid 1990's the EPA found that TCE was 40 times more likely to cause cancer than previously believed. The Department of Defense has over a 1000 sites nationwide contaminated with TCE.  » full text

-- Health risk linked to same chemical found in groundwater Trenton NJ -- Cancer in children living near the Indian Point nuclear plant rose just four years after increases in radioactive Strontium-90 in bodies of local children were found, according... » full text

Well-known advocate in Tucson on March 30th  » full text

OSHA whistleblower to lecture at the University of Arizona » full text

Adam Finkel was a Regional Administrator for OSHA before he was removed from his position within the agency for asking to have inspectors tested for exposure to beryllium. » full text

Prankster-activist reveals disturbing truths about corporate behavior, with implications for environmental health. » full text

Tests find 45 of 57 carcinogens in Canadian reporter's blood » full text

Evidence is mounting that vaccinations may have played a part in the skyrocketing autism rate  » full text

Under President Bush’s proposed budget, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is slated to shut down its network of libraries that serve its own scientists as well as the public.  » full text

RADIATION detectors in Britain recorded a fourfold increase in uranium levels in the atmosphere after the “shock and awe” bombing campaign against Iraq, according to a report. » full text

More than 70,000 people, according to preliminary estimates, have sent in comments opposing the EPA proposals that would relax chemical reporting requirements for large industrial facilities. The public comment period ended on Jan. 13, but comments are still pouring... » full text

New ways to gauge an individual's response to environmental toxins will help scientists understand susceptibility to disease.  » full text

LAURA BEIL Knight Ridder Tribune News Service DALLAS - Medical researchers fear that the most ambitious study of children's health ever planned will be lost to federal budget cuts. The National Children's Study was to follow 100,000 children from the... » full text

It's Your Mess, You Clean It Up!!!! A recent poll suggests that the US should be held responsible for clean-up costs of pollution withing US military bases. Recently, Gen. LaPorte, the former commander of US Armed Forces, Korea (USFK), proposed... » full text

By ROBIN LORD STAFF WRITER SANDWICH - Katharine Baugh found a kindred spirit in Judy Scichilone in 2003. The two women had separately become concerned about the increasing numbers of children with cancer they were seeing in Sandwich and the... » full text

By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette More than a decade ago, gasoline began to leak from underground storage tanks at four service stations in the Hazleton area of eastern Pennsylvania. An underground plume of at least 50,000 gallons of gasoline spread... » full text

Coming Clean and Green by RAUL GRIJALVA, United States House of Representives Much of the progress made over the past four decades in protecting the environment has been reversed by the Bush Administration. Its priorities are clear: The interests of... » full text

Assembly panel wants more done about vapor intrusion By Tom Wilber Press & Sun-Bulletin Endicott, NY --Vapor intrusion — a type of pollution affecting hundreds of properties in the Southern Tier — has the potential to cause serious illnesses, and... » full text

By M.R. KROPKO, Associated Press WriterFri Jan 20, 2:25 PM ET Acknowledging that its employees covered up serious damage at a nuclear power plant, the facility's owner has agreed to pay $28 million in fines, restitution and community service... » full text

CHILDREN frequently exposed to household insecticides used on plants, lawns and in head lice shampoos appear to run double the risk of developing childhood leukaemia » full text

[FACT notes: Shouldn't this headline be "Poor air imperils life in Valley"? The AZ Republic seems to believe the myth that we have to choose between economic prosperity and our health. FACT also fears that the people of Phoenix... » full text

By Howard Fischer CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES PHOENIX — State environmental officials are finally moving to restrict dozens of air pollutants that can harm public health, nearly 14 years — and releases of tons of toxic chemicals — after being... » full text

Toxic Traces: New Questions About Old Chemicals [Fourth in a Series] Second Opinion: Study Tied Pollutant to Cancer; Then Consultants Got Hold of It 'Clarification' of Chinese Study Absolved Chromium-6; Did Author Really Write It?; Echo of Erin Brockovich Case... » full text

"EPIGENETIC" CHANGES COME BEFORE MUTATIONS A Johns Hopkins researcher, with colleagues in Sweden and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, suggests that the traditional view of cancer as a group of diseases with markedly different biological properties arising from... » full text

Tucson Mayor Robert Walkup and U.S. EPA Waste Management Director Jeff Scott officially marked the completion of the cleanup of petroleum soil contamination by shutting off the environmental cleanup system at the 35 E. Toole Ave. Brownfields site.  » full text

Arizona in top three states with most contaminants in drinking water » full text

FACT agrees! It is dangerous to have homes and schools next to a beryllium factory, and Tucson is the only place in the country where this is happening. » full text

Funding to treat sewage at border will stop discharges of heavy metals like copper and mercury as well fecal coliform. » full text

Why We Can't Prevent Cancer  » full text

By DAVID PACE Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- An Associated Press analysis of a little-known government research project shows that black Americans are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is suspected... » full text

Norwich Evening News Norwich, UK -- A woman today said she feared her mother died from oesophageal cancer after eating contaminated vegetables from her garden. Jean Cordy fears soil was contaminated by germ warfare tests which were carried out over... » full text

Does exposure to known carcinogens in the environment cause cancer? The NYT interviews scientists who think not. » full text

Overcast skies are trapping city's particulate pollution Colder weather again brings visit from ugly shroud » full text

Tucson Mayor Robert Walkup and U.S. EPA Waste Management Director Jeff Scott officially marked the completion of the cleanup of petroleum soil contamination by shutting off the environmental cleanup system at the 35 E. Toole Ave. Brownfields site.  » full text

Tucson may drink treated wastewater  » full text

The city of Tucson is looking for water in strange places » full text

Proposal on human pesticide experimentation raises ethical concerns, agency employees say  » full text

Have you ever found yourself at the store, staring at products labeled "natural", "eco-friendly", or "sustainable", and wondering which, if any, are really environmentally friendly? Sustainable consumers spend more than $400 billion each year on products ranging from organic food... » full text

Many patients believe that stress caused their cancer, and that reducing stress will help prevent it from returning. But the scientific evidence for this is weak. » full text

This report commissioned a lab to test 8 toys labelled "phthalate-free" for the presence of phthalates. 6 of the 8 had measurable levels of phthalates! » full text

By Tim Johnson Knight Ridder Newspapers BEIJING - When a chemical plant leaked poison into a river in northeastern China, sparking a calamity this week, regional officials employed a time-tested strategy to quash the bad news: They lied. First,... » full text

Officials at tungsten plant say company has 'zero emissions'  » full text

Frank X. Mullen (fmullen@rgj.com) RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL November 17, 2005 A study by University of Arizona scientists indicates that a Fallon heavy metals firm is the source of the high concentrations of tungsten and cobalt in the air of the community,... » full text

University of Arizona scientists Dr. Mark Witten and Dr. Paul Sheppard are announcing results of their research that may have implications for the Fallon, Nevada, childhood leukemia cluster. They studied elevated tungsten and cobalt in airborne particulates in Fallon. The... » full text

A Cold War environmental calamity appears to be the cause of a spate of cancers in the Russian heartland. » full text

The Bush administration has already led a FEMA-like gutting of EPA, but this is a devastating step. » full text

European doctors and cancer researchers are jointly calling for a strong REACH chemicals regulation in order to halt what they describe as a worrying increase in cancer rates, congenital malformations and asthma. » full text

Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years ago present danger now - and the Army doesn't know where they all are.  » full text

Schoenbrod claimed the EPA was a convenient way for Congress to claim credit for improving public health and environmental welfare while shirking the duty of actually accomplishing those goals. » full text

The number of childhood cancer cases in Dover Township over the past five years appears to be "a little bit higher than expected," according to a state epidemiologist.  » full text

Despite worker and citizen eyewitness accounts of illegal toxic dumping, investigation closed without performing a single soil or water sample. » full text

Past oversight has been alarmingly lax, and people have already died from other Kinder Morgan pipeline ruptures. ` » full text

87 workers have been diagnosed with brain cancer since the 1960s, and 36 have died.  » full text

This short satirical piece is hilarious, yet rings painfully true for communities facing disease clusters. » full text

Phthalates altering baby boys genetalia; Europe and Japan limit their use but US allows exposures to continue. » full text

Monticello deals with decades-old uranium program By Lisa Church Special to The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah MONTICELLO - Fifty years ago, people of this small southeastern Utah community saw the uranium/vanadium processing mill on the south end of town... » full text

Pollution from aircraft is set to grow so rapidly that all homeowners, car drivers and businesses will have to reduce their carbon dioxide output to zero for levels to remain safe » full text

The University of Massachusetts Lowell today released a report that links exposures to nearly 30 types of cancer. » full text

USC research adds to evidence that air pollution can cause respiratory problems. » full text

Well water, they say, gives you cancer. » full text

John A. Newby A1 and C. Vyvyan Howard Conclusions. It is feasible that chemical environmental contaminants, in particular synthetic pesticides and organochlorines with endocrine?disrupting properties, could be major factors in cancer aetiology, particularly for hormone?dependent malignancies, such as breast, testicular... » full text

Several Sunnyside schools and a new housing development are at risk from Brush beryllium factory. » full text

1. On page 3 it states that beryllium has no isotopes. This is incorrect. Beryllium has 6 isotopes, making it possible to differentiate between harmless naturally occurring beryllium, and the highly toxic processed beryllium oxide used by Brush Ceramics... » full text

Operator to Properly Calculate Benzene Emissions at Ten Facilities in Eight States  » full text

Review questions pollution guideline BY TOM WILBER Press & Sun-Bulletin BINGHAMPTON, NY -- Evidence of risks associated with exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE) supports a stricter state standard to protect residents living in a polluted area like Endicott, according to a... » full text

By Joyce H. Newman, The Green Guide New York has just become the first state to require that all schools use safer, non-toxic cleaning products. Passage of New York's pioneering legislation -- similar to laws in Washington State that... » full text

Endicott organization hopes to raise awareness, understanding » full text

Hats off to Nancy Freeman and the other Save the Santa Cruz Aquifer folks - they are doing wonderful work advocating for drinking water free from mine waste. » full text

People in Prairie Grove suffer from cancer. Many, including three children, have died since the mid-1990s. In six lawsuits, they and their survivors point a finger at chicken litter as the culprit. » full text

The president of Global Energies Resources (GER) tried to assure a crowded Eagar Town Council audience Tuesday night that the controversial technology they plan to use will be safe. » full text

Nuclear power plant in St. Lucie County, FL released sewage sludge contaminated with radioactive waste. » full text

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. essay about the current gutting of our regulatory agencies, and the resulting increase in pollution.  » full text

The hazardous air pollutants include 188 chemicals that come from a variety of industrial sources ranging from wood finishing to metal fabrication. » full text

Engine exhaust is primary source of pollutants. » full text

On April 28, 2004, at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited because of their satirical website, "Dow representative" "Erastus Hamm" unveiled "Acceptable Risk," a Dow industry standard for determining how many deaths are acceptable when... » full text

Alabama fails to tell residents of benzene contamination  » full text

Epidemiologist comments on "Tooth Fairy Project" industry response in this letter to the editor. » full text

Coalition in AZ seeks better living without chemicals. » full text

Ask your representatives to sign on to this bill that will expand biomonitoring and establish a Nationwide Health Tracking Network.  » full text

Without exaggeration, the single most environmentally-destructive national legislation ever -- the Energy Bill -- is close to being approved for Bush's signature. » full text

The "Tooth Fairy Project" found Strontium-90 levels were 61% higher in children living within 50-miles of a Vermont reactor. » full text

Common Industrial Chemicals In Tiny Doses Raise Health Issue » full text

By TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Exposure of U.S. children to toxic lead and secondhand cigarette smoke is declining, but many adults show evidence of at least some potentially dangerous industrial chemicals or pesticides in their bodies,... » full text

Unborn U.S. babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, gasoline byproducts and pesticides. » full text

Company backs out of incinerator scheme in Cochise County. » full text

Childhood leukemia cluster in military families on Guam, part 2. » full text

Childhood leukemia cluster in military families on Guam. Part 1. » full text

Guamanian newspaper reports on Fallon and Sierra Vista childhood leukemia clusters. » full text

Maryland’s Poor, African-American Communities Suffer Disproportionate Cancer Risk from Air Pollution » full text

What is the proper balance between informing the public about health risks and protecting the confidentiality of the reported data.  » full text

We aren't sure which is creepier: the 40-year agreement clause, or the signature lines at the bottom. » full text

BMJ: Delayed event may trigger leukaemia after prenatal damage to DNA from infection, chemicals, ionising radiation, or other environmental exposures. » full text

So why can't anyone tell you what causes half the breast cancer cases in the U.S.?  » full text

FACT protests exclusion of families from the CDC bio-sampling in Sierra Vista. Of the 13 children with leukemia affiliated with Sierra Vista, only 4 are being sampled. FACT requests the investigative team not to exclude bereaved families and affiliated families.... » full text

Legislators pick majority of studies By Beth Daley, Globe Staff  | May 22, 2005 Every year, Department of Public Health officials receive more than a thousand calls from worried residents who are convinced that something in the air, water, or... » full text

People around Hanford have health effects of radiation exposure, despite a flawed $20 million CDC study that found none.  » full text

In landmark Hanford case, lawyers for two victims establish a link between the disease and the plant that produced fuel for nuclear bombs. » full text

There is a huge propaganda push by the nuclear industry to justify nuclear power as a panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases.  » full text

SIERRA VISTA - The Cochise County Health Department's biosampling effort is nearing completion, officials said Tuesday. A member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in the area to work with a Cochise County Health Department-led team of... » full text

A few days ago I saw "Radium Girls" performed at Tucson High. It is based on the true story of a group of workers in the 1920 who painted glow-in-the-dark clock dials with radioactive paint, and then got sick and... » full text

Subject: RE: FACT requests JP-8 jet fuel exposure plan and methodology for the Sierra Vista leukemia cluster investigation Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 From: "Rubin, Carol" To: "Terry Nordbrock" Cc: Cc: Julie Gerberding, CDC Henry Falk, ATSDR Thomas Sinks, CDC... » full text

Let Us Count the Myriad Ways  » full text

The JP-8 exposure testing CDC did in Fallon yeilded results easily confused with other sources of emissions, such as automotive exhaust. Sierra Vista needs better methodology. » full text

Does environmental pollution create a lot of cancer, or just a little? Read the transcript of a debate on both sides. » full text

The National Children's Study, an ambitious long-range effort to sort out the role toxic chemicals, heredity, diet and other factors play in children's health, is starving for funds. » full text

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected today to sign into law legislation that will top the list nationwide in protecting the largest number of people from cancer-causing and highly toxic pesticides.  » full text

EPA Invites Industry to Mimic Practices of Discontinued CHEERS Study » full text

A CHEMICAL used to make polycarbonate plastic bottles and line tin cans could be the cause of surging prostate cancer rates in men, says a study. » full text

Research will analyze effects of benzene on workers in China By DINA CAPPIELLO Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Concerned that research linking benzene to cancer could lead to expensive and strict controls on the petroleum industry, five major oil companies are... » full text

The $142 million water bond promotes sprawl, is far too expensive and amounts to a blank check to a poorly managed utility. » full text

A mercury-laced preservative once widely added to pediatric vaccines exposes infants' brains to twice the neurotoxin previously suspected. » full text

Two neighbours of high-profile cancer victim and film-maker Cameron Duncan have been diagnosed with the disease - adding further weight to concerns about the apparent dangers of overhead power lines.  » full text

As the state health department investigates cancer rates in Methuen, a professor at Boston University said last week that cases of multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and other autoimmune diseases in the city's Spicket River neighborhood could signal the presence of environmental factors that often cause such diseases. » full text

The Economist asks: Is America worrying enough about cancer rates among the young? » full text

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. article about mercury in vaccine's link to autism and ADHD, and government shenanigans to sheild pharmaceutical firms.  » full text

Rillito civic leaders slain; their work lobbying for tougher air pollution monitoring rules at the nearby Arizona Portland Cement plant will be carried on. » full text

Nonbinding memo with firm to be drawn up » full text

A year ago this week, the conservation group American Rivers named the Colorado the nation's most endangered river - because of a looming pollution crisis, not the drought. » full text

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head. » full text

Cochise County should check out risky technology » full text

It sounds too good to be true.    » full text

The Energy Department on Wednesday proposed to move a huge pile of radioactive waste away from the banks of the Colorado River  » full text

Cochise County Concerned Residents (CCCR) today urged residents of Cochise County to attend an open Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, April 12 at 2 p.m. in the Supervisors Chambers on Melody Lane in Bisbee. The Board Work Session... » full text

Blood Abnormality Numbers More Than Triple and May Go Much Higher Washington, DC - A significant and growing number of inspectors for the US. Occupational Safety and Health Administration have developed blood abnor- malities caused by exposure to deadly beryllium... » full text

This correspondence to Environmental Health Perspectives looks at the possibility that dietary pyrrolizidine alkaloids from weeds are causing excess leukemia and rhabdomyoscarcoma in Fallon and Sierra Vista. » full text

By John Heilprin Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Children may be more vulnerable than adults to cancer risks from certain gene-damaging chemicals, the Environmental Protection Agency said this past week. The agency has updated the way it decides which pollutants... » full text

Free Tucson film and speaker panel about childhood leukemia clusters. » full text

Study suggests in-utero springtime exposure to pesticides may be to blame. By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter SATURDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Can the time of year you were born affect your chances of developing brain cancer? Possibly, report Duke... » full text

Report says government failed to curb access to old mining sites » full text

U.S. EPA review of vinyl chloride toxicology was drafted with substantial input from the chemical industry, resulting in weakened safeguards.  » full text

Common household dust contains a variety of hazardous chemicals originating from everyday consumer products, including Teflon and other nonstick cookware and fabrics coated with water-resistant Gore-Tex, according to a study released Tuesday. » full text

Before Bill Kearney died of esophageal cancer three years ago at 49, he left his wife, Betty Ann, with a haunting suspicion in his final moments about why he thought he was dying. » full text

In a pioneering study, we tested a Bay Area family for a suite of chemical pollutants. The results stunned even scientists.  » full text

Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority. » full text

PHOENIX -- Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Director Steve Owens announced today that ADEQ will conduct a study to determine whether groundwater in Arizona has been contaminated by a plume of hexavalent chromium coming from the Pacific Gas & Electric... » full text

The auditorium sample is about twice as high as the "housekeeping standard" used by the Department of Energy when it wipes surfaces at its beryllium facilities. » full text

Safety breaches at one of Britain's biggest nuclear research stations resulted in hundreds of thousands of radioactive particles escaping into the environment, a former safety officer has revealed. » full text

Companies with perilous histories cross paths at Walnut Creek pipeline By Thomas Peele and Mike Taugher CONTRA COSTA TIMES On November 9, an explosion at a construction site near downtown Walnut Creek killed five workers and severely burned four... » full text

Cochise County residents and public interest groups today expressed alarm at the lack of transparency regarding the incinerator decision process. » full text

Researchers from many different fields are closing in on the metal tungsten as the potential cause of the Fallon leukemia outbreak that has sickened 17 children and killed three since 1997, scientists said last week. The researchers, citing studies published... » full text

Lois Gibbs of Love Canal fame spoke at the University of Arizona law college. » full text

BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:18 PM MST HERALD/REVIEW BISBEE - District 2 County Supervisor Paul Newman's plan to read a statement regarding action taken last week by the county Landfill Rate Review Board was squelched Tuesday morning... » full text

A chemical associated with rocket fuel has turned up in most samples of breast milk and store-bought cow's milk from 23 US states. » full text

New company, new fancy name, still an incinerator... » full text

The landfill board quietly voted last week to recommend that the Board of Supervisors sign a letter of intent with the company that wants to build an incinerator. » full text

Lois Gibbs of Love Canal fame will speak about the grassroots environmental movement. » full text

A new study of 60 newborns in New York City reveals that exposure of expectant mothers to combustion-related urban air pollution may alter the structure of babies' chromosomes while in the womb. While previous experiments have linked such genetic alterations... » full text

One by one, three towering smokestacks that for decades stood as monuments to government ineptitude and waste will tumble to the earth this morning. » full text

As Sierra Vista residents continue to wait for tests that may show why their children are developing leukemia, scientists are looking into a somewhat surprising suspect - drought » full text

The results of a new linkage study conducted in the UK suggests that prenatal and early postnatal exposure to high-temperature combustion products and volatile organic compounds probably cause most cases of childhood cancers and leukemias. » full text

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services released its Eleventh Edition of the Report on Carcinogens today. » full text

Two Tucson boys are stricken with what one physician has dubbed the 'mother of all food allergies' » full text

Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States have    launched a campaign to discredit two historians who have studied the    industry's efforts to conceal links between their products and    cancer. » full text

Women who breathe air polluted with smoke and exhaust fumes are up to four times more likely to have children who develop cancer, a study shows.  » full text

At 11:50 AM -0700 1/14/05, Hamilton, L.H. wrote: >Terry, > >I have been out of the office for a couple of days so I hope you got >Brenda's voice mail/message. > >GER did meet the deadline for their initial response.... » full text

SIERRA VISTA - An independent citizens committee has been formed to study alternative landfill solutions in the county. » full text

ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) -- A small fire broke out in a processing room at the Army's chemical weapons incinerator in east Alabama early Thursday, forcing officials to idle the plant. A spokesman said no one was hurt in the blaze,... » full text

Clean Energy….or a Toxic Pollution Threat? Incinerators in Disguise Proposed for Sierra Vista and Nogales…would be first in U.S. A company called Global Energy Resources LLC wants to build “waste-to-energy” facilities in Sierra Vista and Nogales, claiming they can... » full text

EL DORADO, Ark. - A fire at a hazardous waste incineration plant forced hundreds of residents to evacuate the area Sunday, officials said. » full text

SIERRA VISTA - For several months, state health officials have said there are 12 children with ties to Sierra Vista who have been diagnosed with pediatric leukemia. Now, another child is being added to the area's count, bringing that number to 13, said Dr. Tim Flood, medical director for Arizona public health statistics. » full text

Cluster of cancer By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press writer SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- Jessica Durkit looked sickly. She bruised easily, struggled to get over infections and seemed to constantly be at the pediatrician's office. "She just existed. She was just... » full text

Dr. Mark Witten's research raises alarm about exposure to airborne tungsten and uranium on windy days. » full text

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The toddler of a military family with ties to the Fallon area has been diagnosed with childhood leukemia, officials at Naval Air Station Fallon said Monday.  » full text

Not officially part of cancer cluster: Government agencies have given up search for environmental causes. Frank X. Mullen Jr. RENO GAZETTE