• Russia using chemical choking agents in Ukraine, US says

    The state department says Moscow has used a World War One-era weapon to "dislodge" Ukrainian troops.

  • Jude Bellingham and what these two pictures tell us about his attitude to football

    It was impossible to know what ’s said when he approached as the Bayern Munich striker prepared to take a penalty in Tuesday evening’s semi-final first leg. Whatever the precise words, it was very unlikely that Bellingham was wishing his international teammate the best of luck, and referee Clement Turpin had to intervene to tell the Madrid midfielder to get out of the way. Not that Kane was unduly concerned. “To be honest, I don’t know what he said,” the captain told TNT Sport. “I was in the...

  • Chemical pollutants can increase eczema risk, researchers say

    “We haven’t had a full night’s sleep since our son was born eight years ago,” said Mrs. B, pointing to her son’s dry, red and itchy skin. Her son has had eczema his entire life. Also known as atopic dermatitis, this chronic skin disease affects about 1 in 5 children in the industrialized world. Some studies have found rates of eczema in developing nations to be over thirtyfold lower compared with industrialized nations. However, rates of eczema didn’t spike with the Industrial Revolution,...

  • Invisible Pollution: The urgent need for federal policy on ‘forever’ chemicals

    Across the United States, we celebrated an early “Earth Day” win when the federal government announced last week a requirement for municipal water systems to remove six synthetic toxic chemicals from the tap water of hundreds of millions of people.

  • US Says Russia Using "Chemical Weapons" In UkraineExcept It's Tear Gas

    span property="schema:name" class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"US Says Russia Using "Chemical Weapons" In UkraineExcept It's Tear Gas/span div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"pThe Biden administration has just leveled a somewhat bizarre chemical weapons accusation against Russia, coming a day after the US Treasury came out with nearly 300 new...

  • New EPA rule designates 2 ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances

    April 21 (UPI) — The Environmental Protection Agency has designated two PFAS substances, commonly known as “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances under the United States’ Superfund law. The rule designates perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS, as hazardous substances, allowing the EPA to investigate and clean up contaminations of the toxic chemicals, the […] The post New EPA rule designates 2 ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances first appeared on...

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    Nearly 40% of people in the US live with unhealthy air pollution, report says

    By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — More people across the United States – nearly 40% – are living in places with unhealthy levels of polluted air, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The number of people living with levels of air pollution that can significantly affect their health climbed from about

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    Nearly 40% of people in the US live with unhealthy air pollution, report says

    By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — More people across the United States – nearly 40% – are living in places with unhealthy levels of polluted air, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The number of people living with levels of air pollution that can significantly affect their health climbed from about

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    US says Russia used choking agents against Ukrainian troops, breaching chemical weapons ban

    By Jessie Yeung and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons “as a method of warfare” against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies. In a statement on Wednesday, the US State Department said it had “made a determination that

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    US says Russia used choking agents against Ukrainian troops, breaching chemical weapons ban

    By Jessie Yeung and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons “as a method of warfare” against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies. In a statement on Wednesday, the US State Department said it had “made a determination that

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    US says Russia used choking agents against Ukrainian troops, breaching chemical weapons ban

    By Jessie Yeung and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons “as a method of warfare” against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies. In a statement on Wednesday, the US State Department said it had “made a determination that