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Coca Is It!		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Coca Is It! Efforts by the United States to combat cocaine production in Colombia by spraying coca crops with herbicides are coming up against a provision requiring the spraying to meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S. Translation: The U.S. EPA must certify that the spraying "does not pose unreasonable risks or adverse effects to humans or the environment." The herbicide in use in C ...
Topics: Colombia, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Bad Medicine On flushing medications	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I work with a number of older women who try to be environmentally conscientious. When it comes to discarding outdated medications though, there seems to be conflicting advice. Medical doctors tell me that all such medicines should be flushed down the toilet. Water resource people say, don't flush, because all those discarded medicines are seeping into groundwater. Sigh. What are we to do? Jonell Cadman Dearest Jonell, The ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Grim Limb Gym On chlorinated swimming pools	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I recently managed to mangle my knee and am going through all the 4,673 steps necessary to unmangle it and make it happy and functional again. One of the things my doctor advised me to do was swim. Well, swimming pools are of course full of chlorine! Hey, I just bought an expensive filter for my shower to keep the chlorine off the largest organ of my body, my skin. So what are the risks of contact with chlorinated water ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, sports, toxics (all these topics)

Dumbstruck		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dumbstruck The sins of the fathers (etc.) shall be visited on the children -- at least when the sins are environmental and the children are in China. A recent survey of more than 11,000 schoolchildren in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen found that nearly two-thirds suffered from lead poisoning. Such poisoning, when untreated, can cause damage to the brain, nervous, and reproductive systems; mental retardation; behavioral problem ...
Topics: China, health, toxics (all these topics)

Chemical Bothers		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Chemical Bothers Led by a prominent pediatrician, the Center for Children's Health and the Environment at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine is waging war against industrial chemicals, saying they present significant health risks to children. At a press conference yesterday, Phillip Landrigan, the center's director, said that the country doesn't even have minima ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States (all these topics)

A Mixed Bag		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Mixed Bag In a study of the cumulative health risks of pesticides, the U.S. has found that only two of the 30 pesticides it studied pose an unacceptable threat to human health when combined. The study was conducted in response to a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council, and its findings were announced yesterday evening, just hours after a federal appeals court rejected the third attempt by the pesticide ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dentist the Menace		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dentist the Menace Here's one more reason to dread your dentist: Many dental offices flush old fillings down the drain, washing the mercury inside them into the nation's waterways. That makes dentists the single largest discharger of the toxic metal, according to a national study entitled "Dentist the Menace?" and published by a collection of health and environmental groups. All told, dentist ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Iguana Be Alone!		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Iguana Be Alone! Eighteen months ago, a grounded tanker spilled 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the waters around the famed Galapagos Islands. Luckily, shifting winds sent most of the fuel out to sea rather than into shore, so sea lion and bird deaths numbered in the dozens rather than the hundreds. At the time, biologists and conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, believin ...
Topics: Galapagos Islands, health, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Golden State Worriers		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Golden State Worriers A large portion of the American are at risk of developing cancer from exposure to any of 32 common toxic chemicals, according to the first nationwide study of the toxins, released Friday by the U.S. EPA. About 200 million face roughly a 1 in 100,000 lifetime risk, while about 20 million people -- many of them in the Los Angeles or San Francisco areas -- face a risk as high as 1 in 5 ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Taipei Personalities		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Taipei Personalities More than 200 former employees of an RCA television and semiconductor plant in northern Taiwan have died of cancer and at least 1,000 others are suffering from the disease, in what industry watchdogs are calling the worst cancer cluster in the history of high-tech. A group of former plant workers arrived in Silicon Valley yesterday to tell their ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Taiwan, toxics (all these topics)

Stranger in a Familiar Land		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Stranger in a Familiar Land If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from environmentalists, who were concerned ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands?		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands? The American Environmental Safety Institute (first we've heard of it) sued Nestle, Hershey, Mars, and other chocolate manufacturers yesterday for not disclosing that their products contain toxic metals such as lead and cadmium, as required under California law. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the group sa ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Hop on POPs		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Hop on POPs The good news: President Bush will ask Congress to support a global treaty to phase out 12 highly toxic chemicals. The bad news: He will not back a provision of the treaty that would make it easier to eliminate other toxics as well. If ratified by at least 50 nations, the treaty on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) will ban the "dirty dozen" -- PCBs, dioxins, furans, DDT, and other toxics that cause health ...
Topics: health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Up in Second-Hand Smoke	Suzy Becker	26 Mar 2002	Ha.

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, toxics (all these topics)

Solutia-ns		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ...
Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Hot to Rot?		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Hot to Rot? The U.S. EPA announced this week a two-year phase out of an arsenic-based preservative used to pressure-treat lumber against rot and insect damage. The treated wood is popular for use in fences, decks, and playground equipment, and its manufacturers and vendors -- including Home Depot and other building-supply stores -- currently face a class-action suit for an alleged failure to adequately warn ...
Topics: business, green living, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Not-so-secret Agent		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Not-so-secret Agent Four decades after the U.S. started using Agent Orange in Vietnam, the two countries will begin working together to assess the effects of the toxic chemical on human health and the environment. Agent Orange is a defoliant that contains TCDD, the most dangerous form of dioxin, which causes cancer, immune system malfunction, and birth defects. The U.S. sprayed millions of gallo ...
Topics: Asia, health, toxics, United States, US Military, Vietnam (all these topics)

Chesa-piqued		11 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Chesa-piqued Saying that chemical contamination in the city's water supply led to miscarriages and infant deaths, 25 women have sued Chesapeake, Va., and almost 170 more plan to do so. According to a growing number of studies, the chlorine commonly used to purify drinking water can cause birth defects and miscarriages when it mixes with organic matter, su ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Rhode Island Lead		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Rhode Island Lead A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island paved the way for a landmark lawsuit earlier this week when he gave state Attorney Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) permission to sue manufacturers of lead-based paint. The paint industry had attempted to derail the trial by calling for every one of an estimated 300,000 owners of ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

When Methanol's Said and Done		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
When Methanol's Said and Done In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California's ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. The state began phasing out the chemical compound because of its apparent threat to water quality and human health, b ...
Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

H-2-Oh-boy!		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
H-2-Oh-boy! Utility companies can be sued for violating safe drinking water standards, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided on Monday. The decision is significant because it allows thousands of victims of polluted water to seek financial compensation from the private and public utilities that pipe tap water into homes; in the past, victims mos ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Girls Will Be Boys		30 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Girls Will Be Boys Environmental toxins are disrupting human biology at the most basic level: reproduction. That was the conclusion of researchers at Michigan State University, who found that men with higher levels of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were more like to father boys than girls. PCBs are known to cause sex-related defects in animals (although the researchers were quick to explain that boys ar ...
Topics: Great Lakes, health, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Taps		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Drinking chlorinated tap water puts pregnant women at a higher risk for miscarrying or bearing children with birth defects, according to a new study by two environmental organizations. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group studied water quality data from thousands of water utilities before publishing their findings yesterday. Chlorine is use ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Anniston Get Your Gun		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

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