News tagged with 'Environment'

Better check your shelves for packages of Fruit Loops and Corn Pops after Kellogg's announces a recall of 28 million boxes of cereal for an "off" smell. Five people claim to have been sickened.

U.S. District Judge who on Tuesday overturned the administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling for six months, reportedly owns stock in the oil industry according to a 2008 financial disclosure form disclosed by the group, Judicial Watch.

Flame retardants, found in the blood of pregnant women are correlated with lower levels of thyroid stimulating hormone. The malfunction is linked to miscarriage, premature birth and intrauterine growth retardation.

They didn't want to litigate but a Miami couple has become the first to win a lawsuit over a single home made with defective Chinese wallboard. A Miami-Dade jury awarded the couple $2.5 million in damages and expenses. They had sought over $4 million.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents big and small business, generally favors fewer regulations and government oversight, unless it comes to cleaning up the Gulf oil spill, according to Chamber President Tom Donohue.

Workers trying to clean up crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico are reporting respiratory problems nausea and headaches. Meanwhile BP has failed to act on an order by the Environmental Protection Agency to switch to a less toxic dispersant to break up the oil.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that American produced cigarettes contain higher levels of cancer causing agents than those made in Australia, the UK and Canada.

Reporters ask top energy adviser, Carol Browner who is in charge of the ongoing BP spill. She says it is the government which has brought in a brain trust of 100 scientists working with the technology of BP in the region, after the latest effort to cap the spill failed this weekend.

The military is contacting Veterans Affairs offices acknowledging that burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan "potentially present health risks" to returning veterans and outlines how to handle claims. The letter represents an about face by the Pentagon that open burn pits represent a health hazard.

Corexit hasn't been tested for its toxicity on wetlands, marine life or people, yet BP is dispensing the dispersant liberally in the Gulf of Mexico in a desperate effort to contain the massive oil spill. The EPA has given the company until midnight Thursday to stop using it.

The environmental and industrial exposures to cancer are grossly underestimated finds a panel advising the president on cancer causes.

Most of the seafood harvested in waters that are still open in the Gulf is okay to consume say those watching the oil spill which still is not capped or contained. The testing of seafood for petroleum contamination cannot begin until the leak is stopped and the waters run clear, until then, a sense of smell is the best indicator.

A number of lawsuits are underway in the Gulf oil spill disaster to recover losses of commercial fishing interests, property owners and tourism.

Air passing over an airline engine can contain toxic gases from slight hydraulic and engine leaks that pass into the passenger cabin and flight deck. "Bleed air" problems are coming to light as more people complain of neurotoxin symptoms.

When Jill Wilkins' husband died of a mysterious brain tumor within one year after returning from active service in Iraq, the military didn't recognize illnesses from burn pits. Now she's become a one person online force with a Facebook page that helps vets connect the dots over their mysterious illnesses.