Health and Public Safety
February 13, 2009 -
High arsenic levels have been discovered in water
February 9, 2009 -
A new report released this week by the Black AIDS Institute outlines the promise and the challenge of the current moment in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the black community.
February 6, 2009 -
Not all of the coal ash produced by power plants ends up in surface impoundments like the one that collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee. Some of it ends up being mixed with sewage sludge and other waste and spread on food crops -- especially in the South.
February 5, 2009 -
A lawsuit filed on behalf of juveniles awaiting trial at the New Orleans juvenile detention center has been certified as a class action by a federal judge, reports the Associated Press.
February 3, 2009 -
A new analysis of downstream water samples taken in the weeks following the massive coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant shows levels of heavy-metal contamination that exceed safety standards.
February 2, 2009 -
A new independent analysis of radioactive contamination from the TVA coal ash spill suggests the company downplayed the risk.
January 28, 2009 -
Law makers are urging federal prosecutors to criminally investigate a South Georgia peanut processing plant linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak. As the Associated Press reports:
