Right-to-Know
on January 18, 2017 at 4:23 pm ×
WASHINGTON, DC — “Over 170 environmental, health, and public interest groups sent a letter to the Senate’s Environmental and Public Works committee opposing the nomination of Scott Pruitt to Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Scott Pruitt has actively worked against the mission of the agency he has been […]
Good Neighbor Campaigns / Right-to-Know
on December 12, 2016 at 7:44 pm ×
CINCINNATI — “For DuPont Co. and its Chemours Co. spinoff, hundreds of millions of dollars hinge on the interpretation of the word ‘among.’ A Cincinnati appeals court heard arguments Friday that will affect the fate of thousands of lawsuits by people who drank water contaminated with a Teflon ingredient called […]
Right-to-Know
on September 23, 2016 at 1:18 am ×
CINCINNATI — “Something stunk up Northside on Tuesday morning. Officials said it’s likely asphalt, but a city engineer said the paving didn’t begin until after the smell was reported. The Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency got its first of nine complaints at about 8 a.m. Most were centered around Northside, […]
Right-to-Know
on September 12, 2016 at 3:19 pm ×
CROSSETT, AR — “This summer, [Dickie Guice, who worked as a safety coördinator at a large Koch-owned paper plant in Arkansas] decided to speak out about the paper mill in Crossett, a working-class town of some fifty-two hundred residents ten miles north of the Louisiana border.* The mill is run […]
Right-to-Know
on August 9, 2016 at 7:19 pm ×
WASHINGTON, DC — “The federal government does not currently regulate PFAS chemicals. But they are on the EPA’s list of “unregulated contaminants” that the agency monitors, with the goal of restricting those that most endanger public health. Partly because the rules that it must follow are complicated and contentious, officials have failed to […]
Right-to-Know
on July 25, 2016 at 3:58 pm ×
CHARLESTON, WV — “It’s time to get to the bottom of how DuPont Co.’s spinoff of part of its holdings and its nearly completed merger with Dow Chemical Co. affect the liabilities related to water contamination with and human illnesses potentially caused by the manufacturing giant’s C8 chemical, a federal […]
Ohio Citizen Action / Right-to-Know
on July 20, 2016 at 2:19 pm ×
CINCINNATI — “As the largest grocery chain in the U.S., Kroger has the market power to have toxic chemicals like BPA removed from food packaging and products sold in its stores. To its credit, Kroger has recognized this is a problem and pledged action on BPA. Five years ago, Kroger […]
Good Neighbor Campaigns / Right-to-Know
on July 7, 2016 at 3:12 pm ×
COLUMBUS — “David Freeman hugged Michael Papantonio after a federal court jury awarded him $5.1 million on Wednesday in his lawsuit against DuPont. The Marietta College professor might give his attorney a bear hug later this week after the same jury, which decided the company had acted with malice when […]
Right-to-Know
on June 24, 2016 at 3:31 pm ×
OVER-THE-RHINE — “The songs and chants of a group of about 50 protesters marching on the Kroger shareholder meeting at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts echoed up and down Central Parkway Thursday morning. The protesters marched in the name of consumer’s and farm worker’s rights. It would have been […]
Right-to-Know
on June 14, 2016 at 6:31 pm ×
WASHINGTON, DC — “An estimated 1.7 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016. While some of this is rooted in sheer genetics, many of these cases may be sparked by substances in the air, soil, food, and materials around us. A new report released today by the Environmental […]