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  • Port Hope Cancer Incidence Study Released

    A Health Canada study has found that the overall cancer rates in the town of Port Hope, Ontario are comparable to rates throughout the Province of Ontario. The study, designed to investigate cancer patterns in Port Hope, was commissioned by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) as part of its responsibility to the community for […]

  • Backgrounder : Study of Mortality in Port Hope, 1956-1997

    Prepared by Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada June, 2002 Abstract This Health Canada (HC) report responds to public health concerns over environmental exposure to radioactive and other materials in Port Hope that were by-products of radium and uranium processing activities in […]

  • Population Explosion

    On the afternoon of Sept. 20, 1994, several mysterious yellow clouds floated eerily above the treetops in Southwest Philadelphia. Local residents remember looking up at the sky with a marked sense of fear. “We figured it had come from the refinery, and we had no idea whether the stuff was dangerous,” recalls Al Caporali, who […]

  • Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger

    Concerns about polluted drinking water began to emerge for more than 12,000 Washington County residents when a manufacturing chemical called C8 was revealed in some area public water systems in January 2002. But local water systems had been secretly tested by officials at DuPont’s Washington, W.Va., Works plant, the source of the chemical, decades earlier. […]

  • Health Study may Include C8

    A major federal health survey could include the first independent analysis of how widely a common but increasingly controversial chemical is affecting humans. The chemical, which is found in everything from stain-proof carpeting to water-resistant clothing, already is known to have contaminated public water supplies along the Ohio River and to have mysteriously accumulated in […]

  • Bush Handed DuPont Goodbye Gift Over Toxic Teflon Chemical

    WASHINGTON, February 6, 2009 – The Charleston Gazette reports today that in the last weeks of the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly handed DuPont Co. a three-year extension to complete tests mandated by a 2005 legal settlement on a toxic DuPont product. In a December 2005 settlement with EPA, DuPont agreed to […]

  • Bush Administration Moves to Okay Toxic Teflon Pollution in Tap Water

    January 14, 2009. In its final days, the Bush administration appears poised to issue an emergency health advisory for tap water polluted with the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) effectively allowing a significant level of pollution and discouraging cleanup of PFOA contamination in tap water in at least 9 states. The level of permissible […]

  • Minnesota: Health fears heightened for 3M chemicals in water

    Chemicals formerly manufactured by the 3M Co. and found in groundwater in the metro area are potentially more dangerous than previously believed, according to state health officials on Thursday. The Minnesota Department of Health revised its recommended maximum concentrations of PFOA and PFOS, two chemicals found in the city wells of Oakdale and more than […]

  • Georgia. Dalton: EPA floats advisory for chemical exposure

    Federal environmental regulators are issuing a health advisory on drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical used to make carpet stain resistant and nonstick pans slick. Last year, University of Georgia researchers found “staggeringly high” levels of the chemical — perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA — in the Conasauga River. The chemical was discharged into the […]

  • Georgia: Study finds high levels of stain-resistance ingredient in Conasauga River

    DALTON, Ga. — Five years after federal regulators began seeking changes in the makeup of a chemical used to produce carpet stain repellent, researchers have found “staggeringly high” amounts of the EPA advisory board-labeled “likely carcinogen” in the Conasauga River. Former University of Georgia professor Aaron Fisk, who oversaw a graduate student study measuring amounts […]