Firefighters Sound Alarm On Toxic Chemicals

See on Scoop.itEarth Changes

“Our first responders and firefighters are disproportionately exposed and affected by the chemicals that are in our homes,” said Lindsay Dahl, deputy director for the non-profit Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, one of the organizations participating in the campaign. “They serve, just like pregnant women and children, as canaries in the coal mine for the health effects we’re seeing from chemicals we’re exposed to every day.”

 

 

See on www.huffingtonpost.com

No federal agency protects citizens from mining: Court decision frees Corps of obligation | Op-Ed | Kentucky.com

See on Scoop.itFrackInformant

By Trip Van Noppen

 

“It’s not our job.”

 

That’s the Army Corps of Engineers’ response to claims that the agency failed its obligation to consider the impact on human health when it issued a permit for an Eastern Kentucky mountaintop removal mine, Leeco Inc.’s Stacy Branch mine.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/03/27/3163464/no-federal-agency-protects-citizens.html?sp=/99/349/#storylink=cpy
See on www.kentucky.com