Tag: toxic

Indiana Lawmakers Demand Answers From EPA About East Palestine Waste Shipments

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) have raised concerns with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its plan to move hazardous waste materials from the derailed train site in East Palestine, Ohio, to Indiana. The lawmakers, in a letter (pdf) to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, demanded to know why the materials are coming to their state and…


Rail Union Says Workers Getting Sick After East Palestine Derailment

Railway workers who helped clean up the wreckage of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio last month have been suffering from health issues such as migraines and nausea, according to a union representative. Jonathan Long, a Norfolk Southern Railway employee for nearly 30 years and the general chairman of the American Rail System Federation of…


Ohio Crews Complete Toxic Chemical Release From Derailed Train

Train operator Norfolk Southern said Monday that crews in East Palestine, Ohio, had successfully completed a controlled release of hazardous chemicals from five rail cars after a freight train derailed. The compromised rail cars posed a significant threat to safety, with Gov. Mike DeWine saying on Sunday there was “the potential of a catastrophic tanker…


Pretty Toxic | Documentary

Pretty Toxic is a documentary about the toxic chemicals used by the $500 billion beauty industry—and the healthy price consumers pay to be pretty. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow EpochTV on…


Toxic Components Found in Blood of Patients Who Took COVID Vaccines: German Scientists

In this episode of Frontline Health, we look at the blood of patients who took the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. These blood samples were taken and analyzed by a group of 60 interdisciplinary scientists, including physicists, chemists, pharmacologists, microbiologists, and doctors. They found strange foreign objects floating among the blood cells. The team previously observed these…


Lawsuit Claims Skittles Are Unsafe for Human Consumption

A civil lawsuit has been filed against Skittles alleging that the candies are unsafe for human consumption because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out. Jenile Thames alleged in a proposed class action suit filed on Thursday that Mars was using “heightened levels” of titanium dioxide,…


Microplastics and Pollution Combine to Become Much More Toxic: Study

Microplastics can pick up pollution in their travels and pose an even greater threat to human health, according to a new study. In the ocean, for example, toxic compounds can hitch a ride on plastic and make the material 10 times more toxic than it would normally be, according to the research published earlier this year…


How Many of US Are Drinking Toxic Forever Chemicals?

Many millennia from now, when humans are long vanished from the Earth, intergalactic travelers visiting our planet may wonder about this world’s ancient inhabitants and their civilizations. One clue these visitors will be able to use in their investigations will be the presence of a class of manmade chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)….


Toxic Gas Leak From Industrial Tanker Truck Kills 6 in India

NEW DELHI—A toxic gas leak from an industrial tanker truck killed at least six people on Thursday in western India, police said. Another 25 people were hospitalized after they inhaled the gas in an industrial complex in Surat, a city in Gujarat state, said police officer Mahesh Patel. The TimesNow news website reported that the…


Looming Solar Panel Waste Tsunami Reveals Dark Side of Renewables: Expert

Environmental policy expert Michael Shellenberger told NTD’s “The Nation Speaks” that the economics of solar panel production, deployment, and recycling shows that the technology has a “toxic” and “dangerous” dimension while its advocacy is driven by ideological leanings, rather than sound science. “We’ve been in a sort of hypnotic trance,” Shellenberger said, referring to what he…