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Talking Turkey Make your Thanksgiving and holiday meals go easy on the Earth	Samuel Frank, Andreea Matei, P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide	20 Nov 2003	Earthly Possessions
By Samuel Frank, Andreea Matei and P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide 20 Nov 2003 Sharpen your knives and hone your appetite -- it's that time of year again. Every fall, we stuff ourselves at Thanksgiving, take a quick break, then fill up again over the winter holidays, sometimes gorging at event after event to accommodate multiple sets of family and friends. But environmentalists, beware: The industry set up to sate th ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, holiday (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)

Do Good Get a Dangerous Pesticide Out of Kids' Shampoo		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Get a Dangerous Pesticide Out of Kids' Shampoo Lindane is nasty stuff. This highly toxic pesticide is a suspected carcinogen and a threat to nervous and hormone systems in human beings. Most industrialized countries have abandoned lindane, and the U.S. has banned it for many uses, including on pets. But, astonishingly, shampoos containing lindane are still used on children with lice -- even though safe, effective alternatives are ava ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

Hospital Scrubs Connecticut Hospital Adopts Green Cleaning Regime		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Hospital Scrubs Connecticut Hospital Adopts Green Cleaning Regime Surgery patients and birthing mothers in Greenwich, Conn., will no longer be assaulted by that "hospital smell" in most parts of Greenwich Hospital now that the facility has made a switch to using eco-friendly cleaning products. The hospital is thought to be among the first in the U.S. to reject harsh chemicals in favor of equally ...
Topics: Connecticut, green cleaning, green living, health (all these topics)

Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals A coalition of green groups and consumer advocates took the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court yesterday in an effort to halt experimental planting of "biopharmaceutical crops," plants genetically engineered to produce medicine. The coalition, which includes Friends of the Earth and the Center for Food S ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, health (all these topics)

L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says Hundreds of kids have died and tens of thousands have been hospitalized in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, because of respiratory illnesses seemingly caused by air pollution, according to a five-year study released yesterday by th ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, globalization, health, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Heartbreaker Air Pollution Boosts Heart Attacks, Says New Study		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Heartbreaker Air Pollution Boosts Heart Attacks, Says New Study Evidence keeps coming in to show that air pollution kills. New research released on Sunday found that during the 18 highest air-pollution days in Dijon, France, the rate of heart attacks increased by 161 percent among the general population, and by 250 percent among smokers. Fine particulate pollution was the culprit, even when levels did not exceed governm ...
Topics: France, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Flaming Out Chemical Co. Will Stop Production of Controversial Flame Retardants		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Flaming Out Chemical Co. Will Stop Production of Controversial Flame Retardants In a bit of positive news about nasty chemicals, the manufacturer of two flame retardants that have been found in increasing concentrations in the bodies of humans and wildlife announced yesterday that it would stop producing the chemicals next year. The company, Indianapolis-based Great Lakes Chemical Corp., had been under ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, toxics (all these topics)

Hollow Weenies EPA Won't Restrict Use of Potentially Harmful Weed Killer		03 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Hollow Weenies EPA Won't Restrict Use of Potentially Harmful Weed Killer Talk about scary stuff: On Oct. 31, as people across the U.S. were getting ready to don costumes and pass out Halloween candy, the Bush administration announced that it would not impose new restrictions on the commonly used herbicide atrazine, which has been associated with low sperm counts and prostate cancer ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Spammed If You Do, Spammed If You Don't Breadfruit Trees Endangered by Climate Change and Western-Style Diet		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Spammed If You Do, Spammed If You Don't Breadfruit Trees Endangered by Climate Change and Western-Style Diet The breadfruit tree, which has long provided a dietary staple to residents of South Pacific islands, is in severe decline, experts say, threatened by climate change and, of all things, Spam. Breadfruit trees, with their shallow roots, are particularly vulnerable to storms and cyclones, which have been on ...
Topics: climate, health, Pacific Islands, wildlife (all these topics)

Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan In a blow to advocates of environmental and human health, the European Union dramatically narrowed the scope of its plan to require safety testing for tens of thousands of chemicals. The move was motivated primarily by financial concerns, and the narrower plan is expected to save billions of dollars. But the timing -- in the middle of a bar ...
Topics: business, European Union, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Wheeze on Down the Road Workplace Environment to Blame in 26 Percent of Adult Asthma Cases		23 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Wheeze on Down the Road Workplace Environment to Blame in 26 Percent of Adult Asthma Cases People who work in cleaning, farming, and transportation are particularly vulnerable to asthma, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. Overall, the study found, 26 percent of all adult asthma cases in the U.S. are caused or exacerbated by the work environment; other risky fields include entertainment, ...
Topics: health, United States (all these topics)

Rumble in the Jungle ChevronTexaco Faces Oil Pollution Trial in Ecuador		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Rumble in the Jungle ChevronTexaco Faces Oil Pollution Trial in Ecuador One of the biggest oil pollution trials in history will get underway tomorrow in Ecuador, pitting oil giant ChevronTexaco against 30,000 residents of the Amazon rainforest who charge that a Texaco subsidiary dumped huge amounts of oily waste in their homeland from 1971 to 1992. The Ecuadorians say th ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Ecuador, energy, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., say ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

City Sickers City Dwellers in Asia Face Rising Tide of Pollution-Related Illnesses		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
City Sickers City Dwellers in Asia Face Rising Tide of Pollution-Related Illnesses Residents of urban areas throughout Asia will suffer from a broad range of serious health problems unless environmental conditions improve in a hurry, according to the World Health Organization. About 1.5 million Asians die every year from diseases related to air pollution, and many more succumb to si ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, health, water pollution, World Health Organization (all these topics)

Wheezy Does It Even Comparatively Clean Air Could Exacerbate Asthma, Study Shows		09 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Wheezy Does It Even Comparatively Clean Air Could Exacerbate Asthma, Study Shows What constitutes a safe level of pollution? For children suffering from severe asthma, there might not be such a thing, according to research published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a study of 271 kids under the age of 12 in Massachusetts and Connecticut, those with bad asthma started experiencing shortness of ...
Topics: air pollution, health (all these topics)

Get on the Clean Bus, Gus Washington State Cleans Up Its School Buses		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Get on the Clean Bus, Gus Washington State Cleans Up Its School Buses Washington state has launched an ambitious program to retrofit its diesel school buses with devices that curb pollution. Throughout the country, public health advocates and parents alike have grown concerned about school buses' dirty emissions, which can contribute to a range of health problems, particularly in children, whose lungs ...
Topics: health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Caveat Farmer Bush Insulates Pesticide Makers from Lawsuits		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Caveat Farmer Bush Insulates Pesticide Makers from Lawsuits The Bush administration is doing a big favor for pesticide manufacturers by instituting a new policy that will curb farmers' ability to sue the companies if their products don't work as promised. In a significant policy reversal, the U.S. EPA has reinterpreted a federal law and now claims that it bars ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dead Heat Global Warming May Be Killing 160,000 People a Year		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dead Heat Global Warming May Be Killing 160,000 People a Year Climate change and its side effects may be killing about 160,000 people a year, with children in developing countries particularly vulnerable, according to a new report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization. By 2020, the annual number of deaths attributed to climate change could almost double. The majority of the deaths are expect ...
Topics: climate, health (all these topics)

Airing It All Out EPA Launches New Daily Air-Quality Forecasts		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Airing It All Out EPA Launches New Daily Air-Quality Forecasts If terror threat alerts aren't your thing, maybe you'll be more excited about the U.S. government's newest color-coded warning system -- for air quality. Starting tomorrow, the U.S. EPA will provide daily forecasts on expected levels of particulate pollution, or soot, in 141 cities. Airborne particulates contribute to heart problems, lung cancer, and asthma. The a ...
Topics: air pollution, health, US EPA (all these topics)

Better Latex Than Never On eco-friendly birth control	Umbra Fisk	25 Sep 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I am wondering about the most environmentally safe form of birth control. From what I understand, women's birth control pills put terrible amounts of hormones into the world's waters and cause genetic mutations in fish. On the other hand, constantly using and discarding plastic condoms, including the packaging these come in, does not seem like a great solution. Are there more options out there that would ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, sex (all these topics)

Babes Up in Arms Study Finds Troubling Levels of Flame Retardants in Breast Milk		23 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Babes Up in Arms Study Finds Troubling Levels of Flame Retardants in Breast Milk Fire-retardant chemicals used in household items from furniture to computers to coffee makers have been detected in American women's breast milk at worrying levels, according to the first national study of the issue. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which have been linked to developmental difficulties ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sake It to 'em Tokyo High Court Hears Long-Running Pollution Case		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Sake It to 'em Tokyo High Court Hears Long-Running Pollution Case In the latest development in a seven-year court case, the Tokyo High Court yesterday began hearing a lawsuit that accuses the Japanese government, the Tokyo metropolitan government, the Metropolitan Expressway Public Corporation, and several diesel-vehicle manufacturers of endangering the health of the city's citizens by failing to stem automobile ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Japan, placemaking (all these topics)

A Boy Named 'Sue' Four States Sue EPA for Failing to Protect Kids from Pesticides		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Boy Named "Sue" Four States Sue EPA for Failing to Protect Kids from Pesticides Four state attorneys general filed suit against the U.S. EPA yesterday, charging that the agency is endangering kids by failing to carry out a 1996 law intended to protect children from the risks of eating pesticide-laden food. "Parents reasonably expect that every effort has been made by the federal government to ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Thai One on Thailand Introduces Rules to Limit Pesticides		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Thai One on Thailand Introduces Rules to Limit Pesticides In an effort to become a major international food exporter, Thailand has introduced rules that would dramatically reduce the use of pesticides and other chemicals in agriculture. The proposed rules come on the heels of reports that villagers living near tangerine orchards were suffering from dizziness, rashes, and respiratory problems attributed to toxic fumes and chemical ...
Topics: health, Thailand, toxics (all these topics)

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