Reuters, Feb 12, 2016: THREE U.S. government agencies will team up to study whether artificial turf fields and playgrounds that use bits of recycled tires are exposing children to dangerous chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday they will study the issue, [...]
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The New York Times, Nov 28, 2015: IN recent weeks, two major medical organizations have issued independent warnings about toxic chemicals in products all around us. Unregulated substances, they say, are sometimes linked to breast and prostate cancer, genital deformities, obesity, diabetes and infertility. Read more...
ESPN, Tues Nov 3, 2016 8pmET/5pmPT: In this E:60 investigation 'The Turf War' former US National Team star Julie Foudy examines the use of crumb rubber on synthetic turf fields and the 180 reported cases of young athletes (including 65 goalies) who have contracted leukemia and other blood cancers after playing on these fields. Twenty [...]
Counterpunch, Miami, June 4, 2015: Alan Farago, President of the Society of the Everglades, reports on statistical studies by Dr Raid Amin, of the University of West Florida, identifying a pediatric cancer cluster in South Florida including Miami. The Florida Department of Health has not recognised the cluster, validated independently by other statisticians. Read more...
A Film by Massimo Mazzukko (2010)
The New Times, Miami, March 20, 2008: Reporter Isaiah Thompson looks into the story of how Bill Brant, then director of Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department, discovered that benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, was detected at a county water treatment facility - Northwest Wellfiled, which supplies the majority of the county's drinking water. One of [...]