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Milkin' It More use of growth hormones would boost sustainability of dairy industry, says study		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:00 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Shooting up cows with artificial growth hormones increases the sustainability of the dairy industry, claims a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Giving rbST to 1 million cows would enable the same amount of milk to be produced using 157,000 fewer cows," says the study, thus easing the impact that giant dairy-cow operatio ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, food, health, industrial ag, news, scientific research, water pollution (all these topics)

Missouri mystery Why are sperm counts so low in the show-me state?	Tom Philpott	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Surrounded by agriculture powerhouses Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois, Missouri sits at the southern edge of the heartland. Are the region's titanic annual lashings of agrichemicals -- synthetic and mined fertilizers, as well as poisons designed to kill bugs, weeds, and mold -- leaching into drinking water and doing creepy things to the state's citizens? And what about manure from the stunning concentration of concentrated-animal feedlot operations ...
Topics: Agriculture, health, Missouri, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Water problem? What water problem?	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
There's no water problem. Dean Kamen solved it: More details here.
Topics: funnies, health, innovation, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

I Sink, Therefore I Am On tap water	Umbra Fisk	12 Mar 2008	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I was wondering where the H2O from the tap comes from, and where it goes to. Beth Swarthmore, Pa. Dearest Beth, It comes from and goes back to the water cycle, which I've been reading a lot about in Richard Scarry's classic work What Do People Do All Day? The book answers the "where it comes from" question, but Scarry doesn't have so much to say about sewage. Lowly Worm does not get to travel through the toilet. Let ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Lejeune Bugged U.S. Navy must notify N.C.-based Marines of exposure to contaminated water		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 01 Oct 2007 Some 1 million Marines stationed at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune between 1958 and 1987 drank, cooked with, and showered in toxic water; under a defense reauthorization bill amendment recently approved by the Senate, the U.S. Navy would be required to, um, let them know. The federal government closed the base's wells in the mid-'80s after confirming they were contaminated w ...
Topics: Department of Defense, health, news, North Carolina, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Nuggets and Hummers and fish sticks, oh my! PETA VP argues vegetarianism is the best way to help the planet	Grist	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Bruce Friedrich, vice president for campaigns at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). It was written in response to Alex Roth's essay "PETA's dogma is all bark and no bite." Friedrich has been an environmental activist for more than 20 years. In 1987, I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lapp� and -- primarily for human rights and environmental reasons -- went vegan. Two decades later, I still believe ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, aquaculture, climate, deforestation, fishing, food, health, sustainable ag, vegetarianism and veganism, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Permanent Depress Top 10 most polluted places on earth tallied by Blacksmith Institute		13 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:11 PM on 13 Sep 2007 China, India, and Russia are each home to two of the most polluted places on earth, with sites in Azerbaijan, Peru, Ukraine, and Zambia rounding out the top 10, says the second annual tally by the nonprofit Blacksmith Institute. Some 12 million people total live in the affected areas, which are tainted largely by chemical-weapons manufacturing, heavy-metal and coal mining, and ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Arsenic and a New Case Drinking water across the globe contaminated by arsenic, says research		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 4:15 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Some 137 million people across the globe unknowingly consume water with unsafe levels of arsenic, according to new research. The odorless, tasteless chemical occurs naturally in soil, but also reaches drinking water from agricultural and industrial sources and the vials of paperback-mystery villains. Arsenic can lead to lung, bladder, and skin cancer and is "the mo ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Dave's Second Law of Sustainability Politics	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Clean up coal emissions and you end up with more -- and more toxic -- coal ash. You get cleaner air, but you get ash that can't be recycled (into, e.g., concrete). You breath free, but you've got arsenic and mercury leaching into your groundwater from coal-ash landfills. Look at this vintage coal magic: There are ways to remove the pollutants from emissions without making the ash unusable [for recycling]. But that equipment can be up to four times more expensive, ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Green movements or green paint China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse	Jon Rynn	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
'Choking on Growth' is the apt title of the new New York Times series on the 'human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.' Epic, indeed. The first installment shows how 'As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes.' The statistics are daunting: Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China's leading cause of death... Nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water. Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a ...
Topics: air pollution, China, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, international politics, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Evian Is Just Evil Misspelled Hatin' on plastic water bottles is all the rage		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Evian Is Just Evil Misspelled Hatin' on plastic water bottles is all the rage Forget SUVs and Styrofoam: hip-to-the-times green folk are directing their ire at plastic water bottles. In the last few months, the energy-intensiveness of bottled water -- 1.5 million barrels of oil go into making the bottles for the U.S. market each year, and oodles more to transporting the H2O -- has seeped into ...
Topics: food, green living, health, news, recycling, water pollution (all these topics)

But what about the economy?	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
According to David Pimentel and his team of researchers, water, air, and soil pollution cause 40% of all deaths worldwide. (via Hugg)
Topics: air pollution, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Life's a beach And then you die	Kate Sheppard	11 Aug 2007	Gristmill
According to a new report released this week by the Natural Resources Defense Council, there were 25,000 beach closings or 'swimming advisory days' in 2006. That's 28 percent more than in 2005, and the highest number since they started keeping records on that sort of thing. Some 1,300 days of closings were attributed to sewage spills and overflows, and even more were closed because of 'fecal contamination,' which reminds me of that gross-yet-informative Flushie video t ...
Topics: green living, health, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Drugs busted Communities taking action for clean water	Erik Hoffner	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Communities around the country are getting wise to the threat posed by the common practice of flushing old drugs, which inevitably end up in rivers after passing straight through sewage treatment facilities, feminizing fish, mutating frogs, and worse, probably. One recent effort in coastal Maine collected hundreds of pounds of drugs for proper disposal, but this impressive total was crushed by another grassroots 'clean sweep' that collected over a ton of pharmaceutic ...
Topics: green living, health, toxics, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

OK, We're Moving to Iceland World Health Organization ranks countries' environmental health		14 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
OK, We're Moving to Iceland World Health Organization ranks countries' environmental health To those who think environmentalism is all about prioritizing starfish over humans, read on: Cleaning up the globe's air and water could save 13 million lives every year, according to the World Health Organization. Yesterday, WHO released a country-by-country analysis of health issues in 192 nations ...
Topics: air pollution, health, water pollution, World Health Organization (all these topics)

Priorities How do you choose yours?	Jason D Scorse	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
I had nightmares after reading Nicolas Kristof's gruesome description of the Guinea worm -- a two-foot worm that eats through people and pops out of their bodies in the most unpleasant places -- in his editorial on Jimmy Carter's work to eradicate the disease. Beside the sleepless night, the article helped to solidify two things for me.First, in this world we are but one among millions of creatures competing for resources. There are many out to kill us, but also many ...
Topics: environmental movement, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Taking It All Offset House GOPers want to cut enviro and other programs to pay for rebuilding		27 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Taking It All Offset House GOPers want to cut enviro and other programs to pay for rebuilding Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is expected to run the feds around $200 billion. A group of House Republicans called the Republican Study Committee has unveiled an "Operation Offset" plan with proposed budget cuts to pay for the massive expenditure. While this nostalgic exerci ...
Topics: health, news, oceans, politics, water pollution (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)

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)

Going Postal Opinions on Atkins, Plus a Touching Tale of a Family Reunited and More		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: health, water pollution (all these topics)

To Leach His Own Nalgene Water Bottles May Be Hazardous to Your Health		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
To Leach His Own Nalgene Water Bottles May Be Hazardous to Your Health Here's some bummer news for the outdoorsy set: Recent studies have shown that polycarbonate plastics, including the kind used in popular Nalgene water bottles, may leach one of their constituent chemicals into water. The chemical in question, bisphenol-A, has been shown to cause chromosomal disorders and endocrine disruption and to have adve ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, water pollution (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)

One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget Iraq's first environment ministry, facing a host of daunting ecological problems and a list of 35 priority projects that would cost more than $200 million, has been allotted a 2004 budget of ... $1 ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, health, Iraq, Middle East, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution (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)

Hasta La Vista, Regulations Schwarzenegger Puts a Hold on Pending Environmental Regulations		19 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Hasta La Vista, Regulations Schwarzenegger Puts a Hold on Pending Environmental Regulations California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) was in office only a few hours before throwing a wrench into a number of environmental-protection efforts by placing a hold on all pending state regulations in order to review their potential impact on the state's business climate. Affect ...
Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, health, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

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