In early March, nearly 100 protesters picketed outside the Island Park landfill in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in opposition to a proposed Beneficial Use Determination (BUD) allowing soil with high levels of arsenic to be used to cap the landfill site. Benzene, a known human carcinogen, is another toxin that residents fear may be present in high levels in the soil being brought in for the soil cap. Residents are concerned about the toxins not only Read More...

Libby asbestos victims may be making a settlement with the state of Montana somewhere in the ballpark of $43 million. The settlement would release Read More...

Cecil "Bud" Cuthbert of Mantua, New Jersey died of mesothelioma on March 4 at the age of 66. A four year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Cuthbert served Read More...

Robin Lawson of Las Vegas, Nevada was diagnosed with breast cancer years ago. After eight years of remission, her cancer returned. This time, her Read More...

James Robert Soyars Jr. of Denver, Colorado was fined $435,000 and sentenced to six months home detention for violations of the Clean Air Act. Back Read More...

Marjorie Burgard of Duxbury, Massachusetts is 81 years old; she is also a world rowing champion, having won 12 gold medals in five major races. She Read More...

Before the Ten Commandments, God specifically singled out as sin deliberately taking another’s life. We find the story in Genesis Chapter 4: Now Read More...

On February 8, officials from Buffalo, New York voted unanimously to ban fracking, the industry term for hydraulic fracturing, a technique used for Read More...

Environmental organizations were livid when hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”) was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act by the Read More...

The Department of the Navy has made two requests for dismissal in Laura Jones’ lawsuit regarding her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and water Read More...