The RMP map plots the locations of U.S. chemical facilities regulated under the EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP). Larger or darker rings indicate sites with recent incidents, drawing a visual link between industrial activity and past chemical releases. In recent days, two high-profile chemical incidents on the West Coast have underscored the real-world stakes behind federal tracking systems like the RMP database.
A coalition of public health, environmental, and consumer organisations is sounding the alarm in an open letter to the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU. The negotiations on the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus proposal are being pushed through at speed with little scrutiny, no democratic debate, and insufficient expert input. The organisations warn that credible alternative solutions, including those identified by EFSA, have not been properly considered by the Council. The Council adopted its position yesterday on parts of the proposal related to pesticide-spraying drones.
The EU is backing an industrial model of agriculture that is undermining the ecological foundations that long-term food production depends on. The Food and Feed Omnibus package and the Regulation on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) are moving through EU institutions and could weaken safeguards on pesticides and genetically modified organisms. Europe’s rich food cultures are rooted in agrodiversity, safeguarded over millennia by farmers.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an elections bill Wednesday. California officials are starting to review the safety records of the aerospace firm whose tank nearly exploded with a toxic chemical over the Memorial Day weekend. Newsom is concerned about federal cutbacks to safety investments that have been made over the last year.
GKN Aerospace is responsible for a chemical leak that forced 50,000 people to evacuate their homes in Garden Grove, California over the weekend. The company has brought in more than $13 million since 2017 in subcontracts with military manufacturing giant Lockheed Martin to build F-35 fighter jets likely bound for Israel. The Israeli military has a fleet of 48 of the jets, most of them paid for by the U.S. State Department.
A rare late-April freeze destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crops in the Northeast. New Jersey farmers lost an estimated $300 million worth of fruit crops. Governor Mikie Sherrill has requested federal disaster relief to help struggling farmers stay afloat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced relief assistance for Pennsylvania farmers affected by the freeze.
A valve on the tank's cooling system failed and 50,000 people were evacuated in and around the Orange County city of Garden Grove last week. The tank at GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems, which makes cockpit windows, canopies and windshields, contains 6,000 to 7,000 gallons (22,700 to 26,500 liters) of methyl methacrylate, which is highly flammable. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has inspected the company’s Garden Grove facility four times since 2018 and found 10 violations.
It's been six years since Australia’s so-called Black Summer, three years since 100 million Americans, and one year since Los Angeles. The women don't know each other, but they share the same feeling that they didn't know enough to keep their children safe.
Riichiro Ikoma, 34, was arrested at his home in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa Prefectural Police said. Ikoma is accused of poisoning a colleague's soup at Camp Zama, a U.S. Army base just outside Tokyo, with a chemical used as antifreeze.
The NGO GE Free New Zealand forced AgResearch Ruakura Animal Containment Facility to produce annual reports describing its work. Ruakura was forced to produce the reports after a court case brought by the NGO. The reports show gene edited livestock suffering from chronic foot problems, pneumonia, respiratory issues, fused organs and deformities. Claire Bleakley sent her summary to the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.