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Chutes and Bladders		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Chutes and Bladders Kids who romp around on wooden structures in playgrounds could face a higher risk of contracting lung or bladder cancer than those who don't come into contact with the equipment, the head of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Friday. Nearly all wooden playground equipment in the U.S. has been treated with the pesticide chromated copper arsenate, which can leave arsenic residue on k ...
Topics: health, outdoor recreation, toxics (all these topics)

Quicksilver, Slow Kids		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Quicksilver, Slow Kids World leaders urgently need to take action to cut down on mercury emissions to protect human health, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. Mercury is released into the atmosphere naturally from rocks, soils, and volcanic eruptions, but mercury emissions have dramatically increased from pre-industrial levels due to human act ...
Topics: energy, globalization, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Blood Sugar Sex Toxic		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Blood Sugar Sex Toxic Americans have lower levels of lead in their bodies than they did a decade ago, but there's plenty of contamination from other toxic chemicals to worry about. In the broadest study of its kind, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers tested blood and urine samples from more than 2,000 Americans, searching for traces of 116 chemicals. One of several troubling findings: Almos ...
Topics: health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lead Us Not		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Lead Us Not Ninety percent of the global gasoline supply is unleaded -- but the majority of the remaining 10 percent is consumed in developing nations. That's bad news for citizens of those countries because leaded fuel is associated with neurological damage, particularly in children. Now, though, there's some good news from the United Nations Environment Programme: Most of the Africa ...
Topics: Africa, health, placemaking, toxics, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Dolorous Haze		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Dolorous Haze Emissions that contribute to smog in the Los Angeles area are drastically worse than previously estimated, air-quality officials admitted yesterday. The announcement marked a reversal of the usual optimistic rhetoric about California air quality, which has been steadily improving since the late 1980s. Now it seems that progress in eliminating the two most common pollutants t ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, health, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

The Dow of Poo		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Dow of Poo Outgoing Michigan Gov. John Engler (R) is trying to relax the state standard for dioxin pollution, a move that unhappy environmentalists say is designed to minimize Dow Chemical's financial liability for future cleanup efforts. The proposed change, which has also angered Gov.-elect Jennifer Granholm (D) ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, health, Hudson River, Michigan, New York, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin In an abrupt departure from past policy, high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will support California legislation requiring computer manufacturers to pay for safe disposal of electronic waste. In October, HP used its considerable clout as the world's largest maker of personal com ...
Topics: California, China, commercial and industry organizations, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics (all these topics)

Teach a Man to Fish and He'll Poison His Brain		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Teach a Man to Fish and He'll Poison His Brain Fish fanatics watch out! Affluent people eating lots of fish for health reasons may be loading up on mercury as well as omega-3 and other special oils, according to a study published in the current issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. Jane Hightower, a doctor at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, conducted the study with her own patients, a well-to-do gr ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Taps		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Contaminants found in the tap water in California's largest cities could pose risks to children, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems, according to a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The findings in the report, "What's on Tap," were the result of a review of tap-water data from 19 cities in the U.S., but so far only the California results have been relea ...
Topics: California, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

When the Fish and Chips Are Down		22 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
When the Fish and Chips Are Down Farmed salmon is coming under fire for the dangers it may pose to human health and the environment. A government study in the U.K. has found that salmon from fish farms is the most contaminated food sold by British supermarkets, beating out all other seafood, as well as meats and vegetables. Every sample of farmed salmon tested in the study contained at least three to ...
Topics: fishing, green living, health, toxics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Today is the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act -- and although the United States has made some strides in improving water quality, it has still got a long way to go. A whopping 81 percent of major wastewater treatment plants and chemical and industrial facilities in the U.S. contaminated waterways beyond what their permits allowed between 1999 a ...
Topics: energy, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Lead Us Not Into Temptation		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Lead Us Not Into Temptation Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have accused the Bush administration of stacking a government advisory panel on childhood lead poisoning with members sympathetic to lead-related industries. The 12-member panel advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on averting such poisoning, and in the past, the CDC has appointed ...
Topics: Centers on Disease Control and Prevention, health, politics, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

My Even More Beautiful Laundrette		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
My Even More Beautiful Laundrette Last week, California Gov. Gray Davis (D) took on washing machines, signing legislation requiring them to be water-efficient by 2007; now the state's South Coast Air Quality Management District has taken aim at a related target -- dry cleaners. The district, which is responsible for cleaning up the air breathed by about half of all Californians, wants to phase out perchloro ...
Topics: California, health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

In the Drink		12 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
In the Drink In other news from the Golden State, regulators in California are reviving a campaign to clean up perchlorate, a Cold War-era pollutant that has been showing up in drinking water supplies across the country. Since the 1950s, the substance has been used as an oxidizer in rockets, munitions, and fireworks. It was not considered ...
Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Scientists Discuss How to Reduce Mercury Use Around Globe		11 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Scientists Discuss How to Reduce Mercury Use Around Globe Scientists from around the world are meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland, at a conference sponsored by the U.N. Environment Programme, to discuss ways to cut back on global mercury use. For decades, the toxic substance has been used in lamps, batteries, electrical equipment, thermometers, dental fillings, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and even beauty products. Gul ...
Topics: health, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Rhode Island Lead		04 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Rhode Island Lead Rhode Island has taken eight paint manufacturers to court in a first-ever attempt by a state to hold companies accountable for decades of child lead poisoning. Rhode Island, which has one of the highest rates of such poisoning in the country, is claiming the manufacturers created a public nuisance by selling the paint. The paint companies counter that problems stem from ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Another Anderson Scandal		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Another Anderson Scandal A court in India has rejected efforts to reduce the charges against Warren Anderson, the former chair of the U.S.-based company Union Carbide, which was responsible for a 1984 gas leak in Bhopal that killed 3,000 people and sickened tens of thousands more. The leak from a pesticide plant in the central Indian city was one of the worst industrial ac ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, India, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Czech It Out		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Czech It Out A "mini-Chernobyl" -- that's how a Czech investigating commission has described the potential threat posed by a chemical plant just north of Prague that was damaged in last week's flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. The commission warned that the highly toxic chlorine released by the Spolana plant during the floods and again late last week could threaten &qu ...
Topics: Czech Republic, European Union, health, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Scrambled Eggs		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Scrambled Eggs If you were looking for good news about endocrine disputers, you're out of luck. A global report by the World Health Organization has found extensive damage to wildlife from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and could not rule out possible risks for humans as well. EDCs -- which lurk in pesticide residues on food, plastics, household products, and industrial chemicals, among other pla ...
Topics: health, toxics, wildlife, World Health Organization (all these topics)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears Despite its foreign-sounding name, the West Nile virus is becoming an undeniably American concern. Eighty-eight new cases were reported in three states last week, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday that the mosquito-borne virus is here to stay. About one in five people who get the virus develop flu-like symptoms; less than 1 percent face the most ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife?		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife? It seems like a wilderness paradise, replete with mule deer, bald eagles, and foxes -- but Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal is also a Cold War relic contaminated by years of chemical weapons production. The 27-square-mile patch of land just 10 miles outside of Denver bears the paradoxical dual designation of National Wildlife Refuge and Superfund site. C ...
Topics: Colorado, health, pollution and waste, toxics, wilderness (all these topics)

A New Day Lawning On lawn and garden pesticides	Umbra Fisk	30 Jul 2002	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, Goddess of Green Knowledge, A few years ago, a farmer friend of mine argued that more pesticides and chemical fertilizers are applied to suburban lawns and gardens than are used in commercial agriculture. I can see how this might be the case, given the massive size of the lawn and garden chemical industry, but I haven't been able to verify this information. Can you help? Ed Hunt Dearest Ed, Supplicant, The l ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, gardening, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast Ten years ago, a group of women headed to Washington, D.C., from their homes in Long Island, N.Y., to demand answers from the government about why so many women from their area were afflicted with breast cancer. Ultimately, the energy, dedication, and political savvy of those women rocketed the Long Island breast cancer story into the national spotlight and mobilized a movement to look for enviro ...
Topics: health, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Bangladeath		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bangladeath Arsenic has a long and glorious history in the annals of crime fiction, but for the people of Bangladesh, poisoning by arsenic is all too real. With 35 million people drinking arsenic-tainted water, the country is in the midst of what the World Health Organization is calling the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." Ironically, the problem has its ...
Topics: Bangladesh, health, toxics, water pollution, World Health Organization (all these topics)

The Boys, a Bummer, Are Gone		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Boys, a Bummer, Are Gone Boys exposed to certain pollutants during adolescence are far less likely to have sons in adulthood, according to a study published in today's edition of the British scientific journal the Lancet. The study looked at thousands of people in the Taiwanese city of Yucheng who used cooking oil containing high concentrations of PCBs. It found that young men exposed to PCBs before the age of 20 were 35 percent ...
Topics: health, Taiwan, toxics (all these topics)

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