Image Credit: Environmental Defense Fund The Environmental Protection Agency announced this week the addition—for the first time in over three decades—of a new substance to its list of hazardous air pollutants. The chemical compound called 1-Bromopropane or 1-BP—used in dry cleaning and automobile care products and linked to cancer and other adverse human health impacts—is […]
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EPA’s first new air pollutant addition in 30 years reveals agency failings: Critics
UFO report could open lid on US spy failings
UFO report could open lid on US spy failings Posted on Monday, 3 May, 2021 If these objects are Russian or Chinese, why doesn’t the US know about it ? Image Credit: US Navy A whistleblower who worked on the AATIP UFO program has warned of what the long-awaited report could reveal.Back at the end […]
The Failings Of Unemployment Insurance Are By Design
Above photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Our unemployment insurance system has failed the country at a moment of great need. With tens of millions of workers struggling just to pay rent and buy food, Congress was forced to pass two emergency spending bills, providing one-time stimulus payments, special weekly unemployment insurance payments, and temporary unemployment benefits […]
Child safety failings linked to death
AAP Failures by Queensland’s child safety services were directly linked to the suicide of a teenage girl in Maryborough, a review has found. The Queensland Department of Child Safety has released five reports into the suicide deaths of two teenagers, both 16, who were friends, in separate suicide incidents in 2009. Both had been in […]