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Unhealthy Skepticism On Bjorn Lomborg and environmental hazards to human health	Devra Davis	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
You know what they say about people who become statisticians? They lacked the personality to become accountants. Whatever their personalities may be, those who spend their lives sorting through reams of numbers often lose sight of what those numbers mean and represent. The Skeptical Environmentalist is a big and infuriating book, written by a statistician and self-described former envir ...
Topics: books, health, toxics (all these topics)

Sprayer in Schools		03 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Sprayer in Schools Republicans on a congressional conference committee killed legislation on Friday that sought to protect public school students and staff from pesticides. The School Environment Protection Act would have required schools to notify parents when pesticides were being sprayed, and directed states to develop pest-management plans that considered alternatives to toxic sprays. Al ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Speaking Ingest		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Speaking Ingest The Bush administration has promised the pesticide industry that it will overturn a Clinton-era policy that prohibited using information obtained from industry studies on human subjects to determine pesticide limits. Under the new policy, which hasn't yet been officially announced, the U.S. EPA would be able to set limits based on data from tests in which paid volunteers ingest small amounts of pesticides, ...
Topics: health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us Which is the lesser of two evils -- malaria or DDT? The former kills a million people per year in Africa, many of them infants and children; the latter is the most effective weapon against the virulent disease, but is lethal to fish and wildlife, and thought to be hazardous to humans as well. Two years ago, South Africa opted to fight malaria with DDT -- a decision one government official c ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Your Days Are Lumbered		08 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Your Days Are Lumbered The health risks posed by arsenic-treated lumber are much greater than previously thought, according to a study by the Environmental Working Group and other public interest organizations. Health and environmental advocates have long questioned the use of arsenic, a known carcinogen, to render lumber resistant to insects and rot. Nevertheless, arsenic-treated wood is commonly used in a wide range of products, including ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

The Persistence of Mercury		01 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Persistence of Mercury Anyone who's ever broken an old-style thermometer knows it's tough to clean up mercury, but the state of Washington is undeterred. The state's Ecology Department has created the nation's only program to battle persistent bioaccumulative toxins, or PBTs, and mercury will be the first target. Found in substances ranging from eye makeup to industrial waste to contaminated seafood, mercury can cause neurol ...
Topics: health, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Crystal Mess		31 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Crystal Mess Here's a troubling source of toxins that hasn't made it onto the average environmentalist's radar screen: methamphetamine labs. For every pound of the illegal stimulant produced, six pounds of toxic waste are left behind. Not surprisingly, there's no environmental oversight for meth labs, so the toxic waste is often dumped into rivers or directly onto the ground. The waste ...
Topics: health, Montana, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

L.A. Confidential		18 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
L.A. Confidential Environmental injustice appears to be alive and well in Los Angeles County, according to a study released today by the University of California at Los Angeles, which found that neighborhoods near major pollution sources are disproportionately low-income and Latino. Latinos make up 44 percent of the county population but 60 perce ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Benzene Wring		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Benzene Wring A five-year study by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission found that two chemical companies, Marathon Ashland Petroleum and BP Chemical, have been releasing unacceptable amounts of benzene into the air around Texas City, 60 miles southeast of Houston. The levels of benzene, which is a known carcinogen, were three to six times higher than those permit ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, state politics, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk		14 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk The smoke and grit in the air in New York City that came from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers pose only a small health risk, U.S. EPA officials and some doctors said yesterday. They equated the danger to a smoggy day in the city, when people with already-weakened immune systems should be especially cautious. Other independent health experts were gloom ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk		13 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk The enormous cloud of smoke and grit that spread from the collapsing World Trade Center towers on Tuesday could lead to attacks of asthma, emphysema, and other lung diseases, even a day or two after people were exposed, doctors said yesterday. Aside from the smoke, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said the biggest environmental concern right now was asbe ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Residon'ts		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Residon'ts Nearly half the fruit and vegetables sold in U.K. supermarkets since 1998 contained pesticide residues, according to an analysis of government pesticide data by Friends of the Earth. The group said most of the residues were within legal limits, but it raised concerns that the individual chemicals could be dangerous in combination, especially for u ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, health, toxics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Bug Bang Boom		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Bug Bang Boom A California appeals court ruled yesterday that pesticide companies can be sued over concerns that home bug sprays are making people sick. The court in Los Angeles rejected arguments by Dow Chemical and other chemical manufacturers that they were protected from suits covering chemicals approved by the U.S. EPA for residential use. It said the EPA-approved warning labels could not be challenged, but a jury ...
Topics: California, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Rash Attack		02 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
A Rash Attack A flight attendant for United Airlines has sued the airline for exposing flight crews to pesticides on planes serving Australia and New Zealand. The attendant, Susan Matthews, says she developed a full-body rash after contact with the pesticides. The spraying -- which has been banned in the U.S. -- occurs about once every eight weeks to keep nonnative insects from hitching rides and potentially wreakin ...
Topics: Australia, health, New Zealand, toxics (all these topics)

Just Spray No		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Just Spray No Despite a judge's order to temporarily cease fumigating coca and poppy plants with the herbicide glyphosate because of environmental and health concerns, Colombia said yesterday it would not stop the antidrug operation. The judge on Friday asked the Colombian government to explain what it knows about the effects of glyphosate on people and the environment. His final ruling on a petition by indigenous groups to h ...
Topics: health, South America, toxics (all these topics)

Be All That You Can Be		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Be All That You Can Be Thousands of workers in the U.S. may develop a fatal lung disease because companies have exposed them to the highly toxic metal beryllium without safeguards or warnings, according to a Chicago Tribune investigation. Beryllium disease, once only a problem with the defense industry, appears to be on the rise in the electronics, recycling, and dental industries. It turns out that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Ad ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

The Great Brain Robbery		19 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Great Brain Robbery Eating fish tainted with PCBs may cause memory loss and brain damage in adults, according to a study of Michigan residents. The study by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the first to suggest that PCBs in fish may have health implications for all adults; state fish advisories until now have focused on protecting pregnant women, fetuses, and young children. Michigan ships ...
Topics: health, marine life, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Dental Damn		18 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dental Damn A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the American Dental Association last month for misleading consumers about the content and safety of dental fillings. The groups say the ADA is duping consumers into believing that amalgam fillings are made of silver, when the major component is actually mercury. A scientist from the University of Kentucky recently testified before Congress that most people with a ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Kweisi for You		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Kweisi for You The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said last week that it would sue companies that manufactured lead paint. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume described exposure to lead paint as a "civil rights issue." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that low-income children are eight times more likely to live in hom ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, non-government organizations, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Therapy for the Silent	Suzy Becker	09 Apr 2001	Ha.

Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

Third Time's the Charm?	Donella H. Meadows	12 Jun 2000	Global Citizen
Three stories have hit the news lately concerning three corporations that have done -- or may have done -- serious environmental harm. They are coping with the situation in very different ways. Taken together, the stories suggest an odd combination of hope and cynicism. There are signs of honesty, good will, real learning. But the damage is great, and the learning is slow. Story No. 1 is the latest development in a decades-long saga in ...
Topics: business, health, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Wet's the Matter?	Adam I. Lowe	03 May 2000	Counter Culture
1.1 billion -- the number of people worldwide who lack an adequate and safe supply of water for their daily needs, approximately one in five 5 million --- the number of people, mostly children, who die each year from illnesses caused by poor-quality water supplies 5 -- the minimum number of gallons of water needed to meet a person's daily needs, according to the World Health Organization 4.5 -- the average number of gallons of water consumed daily pe ...
Topics: health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Dirt on Pesticides	Josh Sevin	03 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
4.1 billion pounds of pesticides are used throughout the world each year 30 times more pesticides are used today than were used in 1945 30 percent of insecticides are believed to be carcinogenic 60 percent of herbicides are believed to be carcinogenic 90 percent of fungicides are believed to be carcinogenic 23 of the 28 most commonly used pesticides are believed to be carcinogenic an estimated 20,000 cancer deaths each year in the U.S. are caused ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Absolut Advertising	Ben White	28 Jul 1999	Muckraker
If you are like us (and we bet you are) you were sipping your coffee and peacefully perusing your New York Times Tuesday morning when POW! you were smacked upside the head by a clever full-page ad from the Environmental Working Group previewing its release of a study on the effects of the herbicide atrazine. The ad, mimicking the long-running Absolut Vodka campaign, pictures a baby bottle with an atrazine-warning label. The caption reads, "Absolu ...
Topics: agriculture, Environmental Working Group, health, Muckraker, national forests, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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