Category: Public health
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Don’t be silent about the EPA Clean Water rollback
What happens when you can’t trust water from the tap? photo: Shutterstock In the United States, we have developed public infrastructure capable of delivering clean, drinkable tap water almost everywhere. Unlike packaged water, tap water is economical and sustainable for daily hydration at home or on the go. But first, it must be clean. The…
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More Than 140 First Nations Still Lack Access To Safe Drinking Water
Photo: Paganakomin Lake is seen in Kigian Zibi Algonquin First Nation in 2011. The region’s well water is contaminated with uranium. (Photo: Francis Vachon/CP) Anishinabe artist and writer Jay Odjick took to Twitter Monday to call out the lack of clean drinking water on many First Nations in Canada. Odjick, a TV producer and comics…
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State: Don’t eat the fish off Kaneohe Marine Corps Base fuel pier
Image: Kanoehe Marine Corps Base Hawaii KANEOHE, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) – If you catch fish or shellfish in the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii fuel pier, don’t eat them. That’s the message from the state Health Department, which is warning residents that the marine life in the area may contain unsafe levels of harmful chemicals. The…
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Proving Terrible For the Marine Life: Microplastics
A seemingly harmless arts and craft material, glitter has been a part of fun Do It Yourself projects, an intricate part of the fashion and makeup world, and an all-around well-loved item for years. Yet beneath all that glitz and glam lies an unfortunate and little-known truth: that glitter is causing serious harm to the…
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New Jersey seeks stricter limit on chemicals, PFCs in drinking water
Photo: Testing water samples for unsafe substances at a lab in Fairfield, NJ. LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — New Jersey has some of the highest concentrations of perfluorinated chemicals, but the state is taking steps to reduce their risk to the public. It has been nearly 20 years since a hazardous class of chemicals found in common…
