When gardening, you do your best to ensure that your flowers or crops grow healthy and strong. You take care of them, water them regularly, and do whatever it takes to keep them thriving. Unfortunately, some products used to care for plants and to control weeds contain harmful chemicals that can cause serious side effects. …
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A jury in Oakland, California recently ordered Monsanto—manufacturer of Roundup® Weed Killer—to pay more than $2 billion to a Northern California couple suffering from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This marks the third jury verdict to reinforce allegations the product causes cancer. An article on the landmark verdict appears here. About Glyphosate While Monsanto and its parent company, …
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For more than thirty years, the United States Marine Corps was responsible for exposing soldiers stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to toxic chemicals through contaminated water. Policies have been reformed since that time to provide healthcare coverage and disability benefits to those victims, but statistics show many are still struggling to receive the …
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For decades, soldiers and families of service members living on the grounds of North Carolina’s U.S. Marine Corps base, Camp Lejeune, have suffered from serious medical conditions blamed on contaminated water. Many victims have filed for veterans disability benefits only to have their claims denied. This may soon change. The U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs …
Toxic ash is a byproduct of burning coal used to create electricity. The North Carolina toxic exposure lawyers at HensonFuerst explain coal ash can contain many heavy metals that are harmful to humans, including arsenic, lead, and mercury. Despite the risks toxic coal ash can pose to the public, a moratorium on the use of …
North Carolina Coal Ash Moratorium Lifted, Posing Threat of Toxic Exposure to Public Read More »
In the United States, we often burn coal to produce electricity, which produces ash as waste. The ash contains highly toxic substances and compounds that can lead to contaminated water in our water sources. North Carolina and it’s surrounding areas have seen these risks firsthand on several occasions. In 2008, millions of pounds of coal …
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Duke Energy remains under public scrutiny after tests showed that private wells of hundreds of landowners with property near the site of a massive coal ash spill were contaminated with toxic heavy metals. Reports indicate the contaminated water sources contained unsafe levels of iron, lead, magnesium, arsenic, and vanadium. Following last year’s spill, legislators passed …
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Being in the military is a dangerous job, but one of the greatest risks can be unseen—service members are sometimes exposed to highly toxic chemicals during their time in the military. Cases of toxic exposure date back for decades. Soldiers who served during the Vietnam War were sometimes covered in the deadly defoliant Agent Orange. …
Bill Proposes Funding for Research of Toxic Exposure in Soldiers Read More »
United States citizens depend on fossil fuels for a majority of our energy needs, but some of the techniques that are used to procure these resources can put us in danger’s way. One of these techniques is fracking, and North Carolina is currently embroiled in a dispute over whether or not it should be allowed. …
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The New York Times has reported on new research that links scores of earthquakes to fracking wells near a fault in Ohio. The research, published in The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, says that fracking in Ohio built up underground pressures, which then caused earthquakes along a fault near the wells. According to …
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