Tag: chemical warfare
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Are Secret, Dangerous Ingredients In Your Food?
from washingtonpost.com: Food manufacturers are routinely exploiting a “legal loophole” that allows them to use new chemicals in their products, based on their own safety studies, without ever notifying the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new report by an environmental and consumer advocacy group.
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Tests Show Chemical in West Virginia Water Weeks After Leak
from cnn.com: Tap water testing in 10 homes in West Virginia found a chemical that leaked from an industrial storage facility in January was still in the water supply a month later, though at levels within the state’s allowable threshold… “Water is continually flowing through the system and it’s cleaning it out,” said Andrew Whelton,…
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West Virginia Tap Water Test Results Expected In 1-3 Weeks
from edition.cnn.com: Tap water test results in 10 West Virginia homes — part of a state-commissioned study into whether the water is safe to drink after a chemical spill last month — will be known in one to three weeks, scientists leading the effort said Friday. The project also is close to assembling a panel…
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Interview w/ Eva Bartlett of InGaza on Human Rights in Palestine
“Eva Bartlett follows in the footsteps of Rachel Corrie.” As she continues her US speaking tour about human rights in Palestine, activist and journalist Eva Bartlett joins us for the second episode of Geopolitiks to talk about her years spent volunteering in Gaza documenting the various angles of life under siege, from the “peace” talks…
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Rockefeller: “I Wouldn’t Drink That Water If You Paid Me”
WV Residents Still Wary of Water After Chemical Leak from thelead.blogs.cnn.com: It was a half-day for the students at Grandview Elementary in North Charleston, West Virginia, Monday, and it wasn’t in observance of George Washington’s birthday. Teachers at the school reported smelling a licorice-like chemical odor this morning, a lingering problem since last month’s chemical…
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More Gunk Spills in West Virginia, Turning Creek Black
Patriot Coal Prep Plant Spills Slurry Into WV Creek* from latimes.com: State officials in West Virginia were trying Tuesday to contain a coal slurry spill into a creek in the same general area where a toxic chemical spill last month tainted drinking water for 300,000 people in and around the state capital of Charleston. A…
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Students Sent Home From West Virginia Schools Amid Fears Over Water Contamination
from nationaljournal.com: Students at a handful of schools in Charleston, W.Va., were sent home last week amid reports of potential water contamination following a chemical spill last month, The New York Times reports. Students were told to leave after students and faculty noticed the smell of licorice, a distinct odor given off by the chemical…
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Libya’s Cache of Toxic Arms All Destroyed
from nytimes.com: Even as the international effort to destroy Syria’s vast chemical weapons stockpile lags behind schedule, a similar American-backed campaign carried out under a cloak of secrecy ended successfully last week in another strife-torn country, Libya. The United States and Libya in the past three months have discreetly destroyed what both sides say were…
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West Virginia official says residents are breathing cancer-causing agent after chemical spill
from blacklistednews.com: A West Virginia state official told legislators on Wednesday that he “can guarantee” some residents are breathing in a cancer-causing substance due to the chemical spill that occurred earlier in January. In a recent meeting with a state legislative committee on water resources, Scott Simonton of the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board said…
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Chemical Spill In West Virginia Worse Than Initially Reported
from huffingtonpost.com: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection issued an update on Monday evening indicating that the Elk River spill in West Virginia earlier this month involved more gallons of chemicals than previously reported. Freedom Industries, which owned the tank that leaked into a river supplying water in the state, now says that approximately…
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Freedom Industries, Company in West Virginia Spill, Files for Bankruptcy
One week after W. Va. toxic spill, new owner of Freedom Industries puts firm in bankruptcy* from nytimes.com: Freedom Industries, the West Virginia company whose chemical spill last week tainted the drinking water of more than 300,000 residents in and around Charleston, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday… News reports stated that Freedom Industries…
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How safe is West Virginia water, if pregnant women shouldn’t drink it?
from cnn.com: Days after they told some West Virginia residents they shouldn’t worry about drinking tap water contaminated with a chemical used to clean coal, local health officials issued a new advisory this week. Pregnant women, they suggested, might want to stick to drinking bottle water. In new guidance issued Wednesday night, West Virginia health…
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Freedom Industries Cited at Second West Virginia Site
from ksdk.com: The company whose spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians has been cited for violations at a second facility where it’s storing chemicals. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after Thursday’s spill. Inspectors…
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West Virginia Governor Issues State of Emergency After Chemical Spill
from wsaz.com: West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has issued a state of emergency for nine counties after a chemical leak in Kanawha County Thursday morning. The state of emergency includes West Virginia American Water customers in Kanawha, Cabell, Boone, Putnam, Lincoln, Logan, Clay, Roane and Jackson counties… [West Virginia American Water] customers are told…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Osama Files, Subway Psyops, Save The Bees (Audio Only)
DOWNLOAD MP3 – NewWorldNextWeek.com: Osama Files, Subway Psyops, Save The Bees (This is an audio-only version of ‘New World Next Week’.) Welcome to the New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1:…