M.B. Pell

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jessica DiNapoli |M.B. Pell

By Jessica DiNapoli, M.B. PellNEW YORK (Reuters) -Some baby food manufacturers are failing to meet California's standards for lead, which are the most stringent in the nation, according to a Reuters analysis of new test results released for the first time. The results are being made public due to a new California law that on January 1 started requiring all companies making or selling baby food in the state to test their products for heavy metals including lead and publish them.

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | M.B. Pell |Nick Zieminski |Chris Prentice |Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has decided to keep corporate monitors in place for military housing company Balfour Beatty Communities and Canadian lender TD Bank, amid the Trump administration's ongoing review of the practice,...

Oct 5, 2024 | reuters.com | Ted Hesson |Kristina Cooke |M.B. Pell

A 6-year-old girl who arrived from Haiti in July 2023, and is now in first grade, heads to the public elementary school in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaCHARLEROI, Pennsylvania - Dana Smith had been teaching first grade at the public school in the small Pennsylvania town of Charleroi for more than 16 years when she found herself confronting a new challenge last year: a sharp rise in students from Haiti who did not speak English.

Aug 7, 2024 | bilyonaryo.com | Benjamin Lesser |M.B. Pell |Jaimi Dowdell

Source: REUTERSBy Benjamin Lesser, M.B. Pell, Jaimi DowdellNEW YORK, Aug. 7 (Reuters) – It is a little-known federal health agency with an unfamiliar name: the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Congress conceived it as part of the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund law, meant to hold polluters responsible for the nation’s most toxic messes.

Aug 7, 2024 | bilyonaryo.com | M.B. Pell |Jaimi Dowdell

Source: REUTERSBy M.B. Pell, Jaimi DowdellAug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) was created to protect the public by assessing health risks at America’s most polluted sites.