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By Elaine Shannon
The chemical industry has spent years trying to suppress information about a certain chemical. Will Congress help the public know the true dangers?
It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry.
Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They’ve been in the [...]

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More than 100 government and university studies have found the chemical Bisphenol-A to be harmful even at low levels.
By Ashley Shelby
On September 16, the FDA did something completely expected: it declared the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) safe for human consumption. This announcement flies in the face of the overwhelming majority of the scientific literature on [...]

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By Tom Vanden Brook
USA Today
Published: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 12:05 a.m. MDT
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is considering a plan to ship deadly chemical weapons to military sites in four states to accelerate the destruction of the munitions, a new report to Congress says.

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Ronica Shannon
Register News Writer
The Blue Grass Army Depot is now home to the nation’s last remaining stockpile of nerve-agent-filled M55 rockets.
Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark., destroyed its last M55 rocket Friday, Feb. 29, and Blue Grass has a destruction deadline of 2017.

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The Associated Press
WHITE HALL — The last VX nerve-agent rocket stored at the Pine Bluff Arsenal has been destroyed, according to officials at the facility destroying the post’s stockpile of chemical weapons.