Maine Adopts Final Safer Chemicals Rule
ACHM Announcements - 2/18/2010. Statement of Michael Belliveau, Executive Director, Environmental Health Strategy Center. Today marks an important milestone in the drive for comprehensive safer chemical policy reform at the state, federal and international level. This morning, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection unanimously adopted proposed regulations to implement Maine's landmark 2008 comprehensive chemical policy law.
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High levels of contaminant found in osprey eggs
Portland Press Herald - 2/9/2010. by John Richardson. Osprey eggs in Casco Bay contain stain repellent and other industrial chemicals at levels that may be harming the birds, according to a Gorham-based researcher.
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Cancer and pesticides: victims fight for justice
The Ecologist - 2/4/2010. After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases.
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EPA Faces Lawsuits Over Pesticide Harms, Soot
Environmental News Service - 2/2/2010. The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity has put the U.S. EPA on notice that it intends to sue the agency for failing to adequately evaluate and regulate nearly 400 pesticides harmful to hundreds of endangered species across the country as well as human beings.
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Get tough on toxic chemicals
Bangor Daily News - 1/6/2010. Op-Ed by Jody Spear encouraging public support for the Board of Environmental Protection's proposed implementation plan for the Kid-Safe Products Act.
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Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law
Washington Post - 1/4/2010. Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States -- from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners -- nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision.
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New Study Confirms: Organic Food is Far Healthier Than Conventional
Natural News - 1/2/2010. Organic produce is nutritionally superior to so-called "conventional" produce, according to a comprehensive review conducted by researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille for the French food agency (AFSSA) and published in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
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