Reservoirs Closed After Carcinogen Is Found
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A rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water of two reservoirs that supply drinking water to Los Angeles with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec. 16--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered FMC Idaho  LLC, a former elemental phosphorous manufacturer in Pocatello, to install a  gas treatment system to reduce phosphine and other gases to safe levels in one  of the company's ponds.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Mar. 2--GLENOLA -- Test results for possible water contamination in Glenola near the Confluence Watersports facility were returned earlier this week stating none of the chemicals tested were detectable in the water.
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Oil reservoirs could have an environmental make-over with the help of bacteria, researchers say.
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By Jack Minch, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Dec. 8--PELHAM. -- An unidentified chemical from China is apparently to blame for the sickness a worker suffered at the William Scotsman Corp. yesterday afternoon.
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Bacteria, algae and fungi that manage to survive in toxic Montana lake left behind by a century of copper mining produce unique compounds to survive in the poisoned, acid environment. Some may inhibit cancer growth. And toxic dumps elsewhere may be incubating biomarvels of their own.
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By Phil Mulkins, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 7--Dear Action Line: Is this fact or a hoax? -- J.G., Tulsa.   Dioxin microwave container hoax: A "Johns Hopkins cancer warning: (1) No plastic containers in micro. (2) No water bottles in freezer. (3) No plastic wrap in microwave.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 8--The health department on Thursday called for Palm Beach County to test for contaminants on a long-delayed golf course under construction west of Boca Raton, a move county officials dismissed as unnecessary.
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By WARREN, Amanda  Firefighters and environmental advisers dealt with a chemical spill at a Hornby seed factory yesterday.   PGG Wrightson grain and seed general manager John McKenzie said the agricultural chemical was used in the company's seed-treatment process.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 10--DURHAM -- State water regulators have cited the city of Durham for failing to test its water last year for volatile organic compounds.   The compounds are a class of carbon chemicals that evaporate readily.
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By Soliman, Mary A; Pedersen, Joel A; Park, Heesu; Castaneda-Jimenez, Angelica; Et al  ABSTRACT:  The primary objective of this study was to determine the presence of unregulated organic chemicals in reclaimed water using complementary targeted and broad spectrum approaches.
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One reactor at a Russian nuclear power station was closed down after a malfunction, but there was no leak of radiation at the site near the city of Saratov on the Volga river, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
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Some bath products and shampoos still contain traces of a cancer- causing petrochemical that federal health officials have expressed concerns about for more than 20 years, according to test results announced Thursday by environmental activists.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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20 November 2004 -- A new study says more than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout over the region from the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986.
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The state has stopped splashing roads with saltwater left over from oil production, at least until it gets results from a laboratory checking the wastewater for contamination, officials said Thursday.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.