Session for state officials “intended to educate,” not influence, corporate...
Reading Time: 2 minutes When the Council of State Governments met last year to discuss product safety, the session was sponsored by Procter & Gamble at its corporate headquarters in Cincinnati,...
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The American Chemistry Council’s influence is so deeply entwined with local and state government, it sometimes feels like a marriage. Sometimes, it is. In Baltimore, Mayor...
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In new battleground over toxic reform, American Chemistry Council targets the...
Reading Time: 26 minutes HARTFORD, Conn. — In the bare-knuckle war over toxic chemicals, the fight between industry and activists has shifted noticeably from Washington, D.C., to state venues such as...
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California bypasses feds, presses ahead on regulation of toxic chemicals
Reading Time: 4 minutes In new battleground over toxic reform, American Chemistry Council targets the states By Ronnie Greene September 9, 2013 Aiming to identify and remove dangerous chemicals from...
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Facing lawsuits over deadly asbestos, paper giant launched secretive research...
Reading Time: 16 minutes Daniel Stupino with his wife, Anna, daughter Dana and son Daniel. Stupino died last year of mesothelioma, a cancer almost always linked to asbestos exposure. He blamed his...
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High bladder cancer rate shrouds New York plant, exposing chemical hazards in...
Reading Time: 19 minutes Retired Goodyear worker Harry Weist and his wife, Diane. Weist, 57, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2004. Matthew Leonard/WXXI NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Ray Kline, it’s said,...
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Berkeley training helps researchers ‘work around’ potential conflicts
Reading Time: 5 minutes BERKELEY, Calif. — A faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, wanted to secure a National Institutes of Health grant to benefit his startup company. That might...
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Lauded public health researcher also worked for industry, revealing...
Reading Time: 19 minutes Patricia Buffler was a highly esteemed public-health scientist and former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. She also worked extensively...
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Read ‘Toxic Clout’ via e-book
Reading Time: < 1 minute More than 80,000 chemicals are on the market in the United States, with hundreds added each year. The Environmental Protection Agency and other regulators are supposed to...
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States target toxic chemicals as Washington fails to act
Reading Time: 7 minutes A chemical plant in West Virginia Jeff Gentner/AP In Vermont, the Senate has just passed a bill potentially empowering the Green Mountain State to ban chemicals it deems...
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