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Salon industry workers often exposed to toxic levels of formaldehyde
Formaldehyde, a highly volatile and toxic compound that poses a substantial threat to human health, is commonly found in and released by certain hair-smoothing products used by salons. But despite the known dangers and the federal laws designed to protect
Alabama’s plans to build convention center with BP oil spill recovery funds sparks anger
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is receiving $94 million from BP to restore its share of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the governor plans to spend more than 90 percent of those
BP oil, dispersants sickening and deforming a spectrum of sea life, scientists warn
Fish with open, oozing lesions and shrimp and crabs with no eyes, no eye sockets, and horrible deformities are becoming alarmingly common in the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists monitoring the problem worry that all the toxic pollution unleashed by
Is lack of corporate safety amounting to a ‘terror’ all its own?
If lawmaking proponents of deregulation have their way, Americans won’t have to worry about being harmed by random foreign terrorists so much as they will by the danger and catastrophe presented by many of our own factories, oil rigs, mines,
Mexico, hundreds of others sue BP over Gulf oil spill damages
Mexico is pursuing legal action against BP for its role in spilling millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf. The lawsuit was filed in March just before the third anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11
Scientists link insect population decline in Gulf wetlands to BP oil spill
Spiders and insect populations are declining in Louisiana’s coastal marshes and other wetlands along the Gulf Coast, and scientists believe BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the culprit. The findings may signal the early stages of a broader, deeper
Gulf residents, ecology facing deadly aftershocks of BP’s oil spill cover-up
Nearly three years after BP doused its monstrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill with Corexit oil dispersants, the media has finally started to report on just how dangerous the chemicals, which are meant to break oil down into tiny particles for
Florida sues BP and Halliburton for $5.5 billion over oil spill damages
The State of Florida filed a lawsuit against BP and some of its affiliated companies last week on the third anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and turned much of the northern Gulf of Mexico into
Report details how Corexit dispersant made BP oil spill many times more toxic
A new report published by the nation’s leading whistleblower advocacy group provides one of the most thoroughly researched, comprehensive independent analyses of BP’s unrestrained use of Corexit oil dispersants to break up the oil that blasted from its Macondo well
