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WASHINGTON, DC, May 13, 2010 (ENS) - Top-selling fragrance products used by both women and men contain at least a dozen "secret" chemicals not listed on labels, finds a new analysis by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of health and environmental groups.
The analysis shows that...
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 22, 2010 (ENS) - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley today marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by re-committing the city to protecting human health, the environment and the climate, which in turn promotes economic development and improves the quality of life for all residents....
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 20, 2010 (ENS) - A report just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a new strain of norovirus, which has sickened dozens of people and forced the closure of several oyster harvest areas in the Louisiana area.
The Louisiana Department...
ANACORTES, Washington, April 2, 2010 (ENS) - An explosion and fire at the Tesoro oil refinery in Anacortes just after midnight Friday has claimed the lives of four employees and left three others critically injured.
Four injured employees were admitted to a Seattle hospital for treatment. One of th...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 31, 2010 (ENS) - Seventy-six organizations representing tens of millions of Americans today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that the agency immediately strengthen U.S. border protections to keep out cows from Canada with mad cow disease.
The letter is...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 31, 2010 (ENS) - Dr. Rita Colwell, an American expert on the prevention of waterborne infectious diseases, has been awarded the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize, widely recognized as the world's premier award for water related research or policy work.
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced an action plan to address the potential effects of bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical used in the manufacture of many consumer and industrial products.
Bisphenol-A is used to make plastics clear and shatter-r...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2010 (ENS) - The federal government is developing a new national policy for sustainable marine aquaculture and is seeking public input to craft a set of uniform, national standards to regulate open ocean aquaculture in federal waters.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad...
MAJURO, Marshall Islands, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - Fifty-six years after the first American hydrogen bomb blast in the Pacific exposed hundreds of people to radioactive fallout, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman is pressing Marshall Islanders to return to their contaminated home island by next year.
The U.S....
FORT COLLINS, Colorado, March 2, 2010 (ENS) - Sylvatic plague - a close cousin of the dreaded disease that killed one-third of all European residents in the six years between 1347 and 1353 - persists in rodents in the American West even when the disease does not erupt into epidemic form, new researc...
