Posted: June 19, 2013 Senate environment committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) says the bipartisan bill reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), sponsored by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) and the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), has no chance of passage without a significant overhaul, casting doubt on the measure’s prospects. The bill, S. […]
Don Wilkins wasn’t altogether sure he wanted to be a father. He’s kind of a free-spirited businessman, and children might have interrupted the comfortable lifestyle he and his wife had created. Too many things could go wrong with kids. He says: “So a lot of thought went into that (decision), and it wasn’t an accident. […]
Cancer has darkened Sue Brigham’s door so many times, she wonders if bad luck runs through her family’s veins. There was the infiltrating ductal carcinoma her mom fought in 1998, the total prostatectomy her dad endured, and the stage 3 ovarian cancer that her sister survived with surgery and chemo. Her niece was diagnosed […]
First of a three-part series Jim Watters was among the fewest of the few when he testified in Congress that poisoned water at Camp Lejeune was killing Marines, and that they were victims of “friendly fire” by federal agencies that refused to admit it. After years of denials, the Department of Veterans Affairs finally acknowledged […]
SANDY — As children they played together, growing up in the same Sandy neighborhood. Now three women, all in their early 30s, are fighting the same deadly brain tumor. “The first thing that went through my head (was), ‘I can’t have a brain tumor, I’m a mom,’ ” said Julie Penrod, who now […]
Families of children who became mysteriously sick in the so-called “cancer cluster” of Clyde, Ohio, have hired a private environmental engineer to test for toxic residue in their homes. An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation previously found dangerous compounds in the soil of a nearby area, but a direct link to the children’s illnesses has not been established. […]
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into a large tank labeled, “NON-POTABLE WATER.” This is the former […]
BOISE — A Boise teen who fought inoperable brain cancer and graduated from high school is facing devastating news — the cancer is back. Last year, we brought you the incredible story of 19-year-old Haylee Winters. Haylee had been battling brain cancer, and was just a few credits shy of graduating from Timberline High. […]
Frank R. Lautenberg, who fought the alcohol and tobacco industries and promoted Amtrak as a five-term United States senator from New Jersey, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was complications of viral pneumonia, his office said. In 2010, it announced that he had stomach cancer. Though he and his […]
