Health and Public Safety
July 29, 2010 -
By Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog
July 28, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica
July 20, 2010 -
A new analysis of federal air quality monitoring data from Louisiana released today by an environmental watchdog group shows continuing public health threats from the BP oil disaster.
July 12, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica BP has long maintained that it will pay all "legitimate" claims for damage caused by the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But company data shows that while it has written checks for roughly half of the overall claims it has received -- most of which address property damage and the loss of income -- it has not made payments on any of the more than 1,100 claims that have been filed for damages caused by "bodily injury."
July 8, 2010 -
When a Tennessee TV station aired a report last month on mysterious damage afflicting crops in an area of the mid-South, it set