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The Bad News Forebears Study suggests toxins' effects may be passed down through generations		03 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Bad News Forebears Study suggests toxins' effects may be passed down through generations A pregnant woman's exposure to toxic chemicals may cause harmful effects not only in her children, but in her grandchildren and theirs, a surprising new study suggests. For some time scientists have known about "epigenetic" changes: chemical modifications of DNA that affect the way it is expressed (phenotype), without changing the ge ...
Topics: health, news, toxics (all these topics)

Well, That's One Way to Shrink the Population Studies link common chemicals to reproductive harm		27 May 2005	Daily Grist
Well, That's One Way to Shrink the Population Studies link common chemicals to reproductive harm Stronger evidence that a class of ubiquitous chemicals called phthalates -- found in a wide variety of plastics, nail polishes, fragrances, and other products -- are linked to adverse effects on the human reproductive system was made public Thursday. A study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found a strong correlat ...
Topics: health, news, toxics (all these topics)

Will & Disgrace Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general	Amanda Griscom Little	28 Apr 2005	Muckraker
Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

The Curious Incident of the Mercury in the School Yard Study suggests mercury and autism linked		17 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Curious Incident of the Mercury in the School Yard Study suggests mercury and autism linked Higher levels of mercury in the environment may be linked to higher rates of autism, a study of Texas school districts found. Districts with the highest rates of autism and special-education students also had the most mercury in the air and water, researchers discovered. They caution that the study doesn't prove a causal link, but s ...
Topics: health, news, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

How toxic is your breast milk?	Lisa Hymas	09 Jan 2005	Gristmill
A nice treatment of this topic in today's New York Times Magazine, from Florence Williams. When we nurse our babies, we feed them not only the fats, sugars and proteins that fire their immune systems, metabolisms and cerebral synapses. We also feed them, albeit in minuscule amounts, paint thinners, dry-cleaning fluids, wood preservatives, toilet deodorizers, cosmetic additives, gasoline byproducts, rocket fuel, termite poisons, fungicides and flame retardants. If, as Ci ...
Topics: food, green living, health, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Injustice for All On 20th anniversary of Bhopal disaster, justice still eludes victims		30 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Injustice for All On 20th anniversary of Bhopal disaster, justice still eludes victims Thanks to bureaucratic inertia, government corruption, and corporate evasion, the citizens of Bhopal, India -- site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak that killed some 7,000 people immediately and 15,000 since -- have yet to see justice, says a new report from Amnesty International, released this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. Only ...
Topics: health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Topic of Cancer Scientists seek environmental causes of breast cancer		09 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Topic of Cancer Scientists seek environmental causes of breast cancer Scientists currently know enough about breast cancer "to explain about half the causes,'' says Aaron Blair of the National Cancer Institute. To fill in the gaps, researchers are increasingly focusing on possible environmental causes like exposure to radiation or toxic chemicals in air, water, and food. Traditionally, studies have analyzed genetic and reproductive fa ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

Shell Game Margie Eugene-Richard of Louisiana battled Shell on behalf of her neighborhood	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Eugene-Richard. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Old Diamond neighborhood of Norco, in far southern Louisiana, sits between a Shell Chemicals plant and an oil refinery owned by a Shell joint venture. "We're like the meat in the sandwich," says Margie Eugene-Richard, 62, who grew up just 25 feet from the fenceline of the chemical plant. For decades, the 1,500 ...
Topics: business, energy, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, interview, Louisiana, oil, toxics (all these topics)

She's the Bee's Knees Rashida Bee of Bhopal, India, fights against the company that devastated her community	Michelle Nijhuis	19 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Shukla (left) and Bee. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize On the night of December 2, 1984, in the central Indian city of Bhopal, a massive poisonous gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide factory killed 8,000 people. Over the course of 20 years, the infamous disaster has caused an estimated 20,000 deaths, countless birth defects, and a litany of other ser ...
Topics: grassroots activism, health, India, interview, toxics (all these topics)

H2Oops EPA exaggerated claims about clean drinking water	Amanda Griscom	16 Mar 2004	Muckraker
That sinking feeling. The U.S. EPA claims it is successfully protecting the nation's drinking-water supplies -- but that claim seems to have sprung a leak. Earlier this month, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General accused officials in the agency of consistently making bogus statements about improvements in the quality of America's tap water. The charges are spelled out in a tellingly titled report: &q ...
Topics: health, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Not OK Computer U.N. Study Highlights Computers' Environmental Hazards		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Not OK Computer U.N. Study Highlights Computers' Environmental Hazards A U.N. study released today highlights the environmental hazards posed by the worldwide popularity of personal computers. Manufacturing the average PC requires 10 times the product's weight in fossil fuels, says the study -- compared to twice the product's weight for cars and refrigerators. Computer manufacturing also entails heavy use of toxic chemi ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Pipe Down D.C. Issues Warning Over Lead in Residential Pipes		25 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Pipe Down D.C. Issues Warning Over Lead in Residential Pipes Washington, D.C., health officials will announce today that pregnant women and children under the age of 6 who live in homes in the city with lead service lines should immediately stop drinking unfiltered tap water and have their blood tested for lead. D.C. Water and Sewer Authority officials plan to distribute free water filters to up to 10,000 of ...
Topics: health, toxics, Washington DC, water pollution (all these topics)

Rotterdam It Convention on Dangerous Chemicals Goes Into Effect		25 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Rotterdam It Convention on Dangerous Chemicals Goes Into Effect The Rotterdam Convention, an international treaty meant to protect developing nations from dangerous chemicals already banned or restricted in wealthy nations, went into effect yesterday, after garnering support from 50 signatory countries, as needed to give it the force of international law. Many toxic chemicals, particularly pesticides for agriculture, t ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, toxics (all these topics)

Fish and Tips Advice to Help Consumers Navigate Choppy Seafood Waters		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, health, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Hot Spot and Bothered With feds slow to tackle mercury pollution, state leaders step up	Amanda Griscom	12 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The Mercury Mutiny is gaining force on the state level, galvanizing some unlikely rebels. Eastern states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York were the first to jump into the fray, launching local efforts to reduce mercury pollution in response to the Bush administration's widely criticized plan for dealing with mercury. Then last week, a new regional e ...
Topics: East Coast, health, mercury, Muckraker, Northeast, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Hot Spots You Won't Want to Visit With Feds Slow to Tackle Mercury Pollution, State Leaders Step Up		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, health, Midwest, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ash Holes Enviro Groups Ask EPA to Halt Ash Dumping		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ash Holes Enviro Groups Ask EPA to Halt Ash Dumping A coalition of 125 environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. EPA, asking it to immediately halt the dumping of waste ash from coal-fired power plants. They claim the ash contains a variety of toxins and pollutes ground, surface, and drinking wat ...
Topics: energy, environmental non-government organizations, health, National Academy of Sciences, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury Roughly 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams, revealed a U.S. EPA analysis released yesterday, which doubles the previously estimated numb ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, health, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice?		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice? Soft drinks made in India by PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. contain levels of toxic pesticides -- including lindane, DDT, malathion, and chlorpyrifos -- high enough to cause cancer or immune-system failure over time. Such was the conclusion of an Indian parliamentary report released yesterday, confirming similar findings by the Delhi-based Center for Science and ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Semper Filthy Controversy Grows Over Contaminated Water on Marine Base		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Semper Filthy Controversy Grows Over Contaminated Water on Marine Base In what could be one of the largest contaminated water cases in U.S. history, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the U.S. military over dirty water at Camp Lejeune, a North Carolina Marine Corps base. In 1980, tests of drinking water wells at the base revealed high levels of toxic chemicals, but the Marine Corps did no ...
Topics: health, North Carolina, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Rhode Island lawsuit pinpoints lead poisoning as an environmental, not medical, problem		22 Jan 2004	The Gist
In the spring of 2000, in Manchester, N.H., a two-year-old Sudanese girl named Sunday Abek, just three weeks removed from an Egyptian refugee camp, was treated at an emergency room for a low-grade fever and vomiting. A throat culture turned up positive for strep, and she was sent home with an antibiotic prescription. Three weeks later, as her vomiting worsened, Abek w ...
Topics: health, Rhode Island, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Lead Poisoning Is an Environmental, Not Medical, Problem		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants Toxic industrial chemicals, carried north by wind, ocean, and river currents, are polluting the traditional diet of native Arctic peoples in Greenland and Arctic Canada. The pollutants, including PCBs and up to 200 other hazardous compounds, are first consumed by zooplankton, then trav ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, food and agriculture, health, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties Consumers, still struggling with the news that bovine spongiform encephalopathy-laden beef will make your brain melt and mercury-laden tuna will make your children stupid, were met today with more bad news: A new study in the journal Science claims that fish-farmed salmon contain enoug ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, green living, health, marine life, South America, toxics, United States (all these topics)

No Joshin': Keep Washin' On washing produce	Umbra Fisk	11 Dec 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Does one really need to wash produce off the shelf or out of the bag? I've been eating vegetables as they are for years. Does it really do any good to wash them? If they are contaminated internally, then washing the outside won't help, will it? Jane Steubenville, Ohio Dearest Jane, Please wash your veggies. Internal contamination from pesticides, herbicides, waxes, and the wages of sin won't be washed away, but so ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, health, local food, toxics (all these topics)

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