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"Study Raises Red Flag Over Home Insecticides, Autoimmune Diseases"

"New research suggests a link between women's exposure to household insecticides -- including roach and mosquito killers -- and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus."

Source: USA TODAY, 10/23/2009

"OMB Endocrine Directive Draws Industry Cheers, Enviro Jeers"

"The Office of Management and Budget has instructed U.S. EPA to use existing toxicity data rather than require companies to conduct new tests to determine whether chemicals can damage the human endocrine system."

Source: Greenwire, 10/16/2009

"Obama Administration Calls for Chemical-Law Reform"

"With more and more toxic chemicals turning up in people's bodies and the environment, the Obama administration asked Congress Tuesday to draft a tougher law for how the government regulates tens of thousands of chemicals."

Source: AP, 09/30/2009

"Officials Knew for Decades That Park Was Contaminated"

"In the woods on the northern edge of Scofieldtown Park are remnants of its days as a landfill. Containers lay strewn among the trees -- milk and 7UP bottles that haven't been used since the 1950s. More sinister are rusty paint cans and empty, decaying 55-gallon chemical drums."

Source: Stamford Advocate, 09/29/2009

"Study Finds School Drinking Water Tainted"

"Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins."

Source: AP, 09/25/2009

Georgia Sewage Plants Swamped by Floods, Dump Sewage

"The record rains of the past few days flooded out sewage treatment plants in Fulton, Cobb and Gwinnett counties [GA], dumping millions of gallons of untreated sewage into local waterways."

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 09/24/2009

"Regulations Might Be Needed for 104 Chemicals Found in Tap Water, EPA Says"

"U.S. EPA has found 104 chemicals that might require regulations to keep them out of tap water -- the longest list of potential contaminants ever compiled by the agency."

Source: Greenwire, 09/24/2009

"EPA Sues VF's North Face Over 'Pesticide' Shoes"

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed a complaint against VF Corp, owner of the North Face brand, on Tuesday, claiming that more than 70 styles of shoes advertised as bacteria-killing by the company had not been registered with the agency."

Source: Reuters, 09/23/2009

"Bee Deaths Set Apiculture Congress Abuzz"

"Montpellier, France -- Pesticides, viruses, industrialised farming, fungus... what on Earth is killing our bees? That's the big question being asked at Apimondia, the 41st world apiculture congress, where 10,000 beekeepers, entomologists and other actors in the honey business are gathered in this southern French city until Sunday."

Source: AFP, 09/18/2009

"EPA Limits Three Pesticides To Protect Salmon"

"The federal government, acting to protect endangered fish, is setting up new rules to limit where and when orchardists, farmers and others can use some common pesticides. ... The rules, coming from the Environmental Protection Agency, follow from a decision last year by the National Marine Fisheries Service to require limits on three common pesticides -- chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion -- in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California."

Source: Portland Oregonian, 09/14/2009

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