Last fall, teen girls at LeRoy High School in upstate NY suddenly started exhibiting Tourette's-like symptoms. For months, NY State health officials could find no direct cause for why the teens developed the spasms and tics, with some doctors insisting it was
2 months agoMore than four decades after a train derailment left a massive toxic chemical spill in a small upstate New York town, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that they will begin removing 235 drums of dirt still sitting on the site. The Lehigh Railroad Derailment Superfund site is located in Le Roy, N.Y.; the same town that has received national attention over the past several months because of a medical mystery involving a group of girls who suddenly began displaying Tourettes-like symptoms. Last fall, about a dozen girls attending Le Roy High School began experiencing uncontrollable and painful tics, seizures, and…
2 months agoEnvironmental activist Erin Brockovich released the following statement Thursday in response to the EPA's removal of barrels from the Lehigh Valley train derailment Superfund site this week:
2 months agoThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will drill about 30 new wells deep below the San Fernando Valley next month to better define a toxic underground chemical plume that regulators admit they still don
cinema - The Berlinale Film Festival this year looked at how cinema treats food and the environment in its ‘Culinary Cinema’ programme. ‘Last Call At The Oasis’ is a documentary about…
Chromium-6, a potentially cancer-causing heavy metal made famous by activist Erin Brockovich, is found in drinking water supplies throughout most of the Coachella Valley at 150 to more than 1,000 times above Californias public health goal, a Desert Sun investigation found.
Erin Brockovich-Ellis (born June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E;) of California in 1993. Sinc... MORE
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