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04/11/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Officials in Michigan release fish consumption advisories after three lakes found to contain cancer-causing chemicals

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has issued a fish consumption advisory for three lakes in three separate Michigan counties. Multiple samples of fish taken from these sites are testing positive for mercury and cancer-causing polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). Bluegill, sunfish, largemouth and smallmouth bass taken from Freska and Versluis Lake tested […]

02/27/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Exchanging one poison for another: It’s costing the military millions to clean up chemicals from toxic firefighting foam, but the new formula isn’t any safer

When it comes to the issue of toxic firefighting foam, the U.S. military is always fighting a futile rearguard action. It used the same fluorine-heavy formula for decades and dumped tons of that same foam into the sea. Now it’s spending billions on clean-up efforts, and its supposedly new foam formula is just more of the same cancer-causing […]

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