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Scientific American: The Environmental Protection Agency will ban the use of endosulfan, which “can pose unacceptable neurological and reproductive risks to farmworkers and wildlife and can persist in the environment.”

(Miami) Daily Business Review: Documents show a Miami distributor of Chinese drywall told the manufacturer it would keep quiet about any health or odor problems resulting from the drywall.

New York Times: A class action suit accuses the credit card company of “using confusing and misleading sales tactics to get cardholders to sign up for the supposedly optional plan.”

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: The nation’s second-largest public pension fund has joined in a shareholder lawsuit against the officers and directors of the company that operates a West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 workers in April, claiming the officials chose not to comply with federal and state law.

Washington Post (ProPublica): Internal investigations showed the oil company “repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways.”

Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Officials at WCI Communities “were worried as early as 2006 about the potential health effects of the odor” emanating from Chinese drywall used in homes but never told its customers.

ABC News: BP has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo to try to steer consumers to the company’s official website when looking for information about the oil catastrophe.