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The Fat of the Land Study Links Obesity to Suburban Sprawl		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Fat of the Land Study Links Obesity to Suburban Sprawl No, it's not a national thyroid problem: The U.S. obesity epidemic is caused in part by suburban sprawl, according to a study released yesterday by the National Center for Smart Growth. The study, which involved more than 200,000 people in 448 counties, was the first comprehensive examination of the health effects of sprawl, and was also the first to produce concrete evidence of ...
Topics: health, placemaking (all these topics)

Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town		28 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town In the largest trial judgment awarded in the history of the Superfund law, a federal judge yesterday ordered W.R. Grace and Co. to repay the $54.5 million the federal government spent cleaning up asbestos contamination in the town of Libby, Mont. The company and its subsidiary had already agreed to pay ...
Topics: health, mining and drilling, Montana, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Sweeter Home Alabama Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement		21 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Sweeter Home Alabama Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement Monsanto Co. and its spin-off enterprise, Solutia, agreed yesterday to pay $700 million to settle state and federal lawsuits concerning five decades of PCB pollution in Anniston, Ala. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Monsanto (and later Solutia) used a plant in Anniston to produce PCBs, which are now banned in the U.S. because they are associate ...
Topics: Alabama, health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Salad Daze On Roundup	Umbra Fisk	18 Aug 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have a large, organic (hopefully) vegetable garden. However, I occasionally use Roundup around the edges to keep invasive grasses from creeping in. Now, I have been given to understand that Roundup is relatively safe and breaks down almost immediately. What are your thoughts on this subject? I totally trust your judgment. Betsy Michigan Dearest Betsy, Roundup is relatively safe -- it's not as bad as, say, depleted uranium -- but that ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food, gardening, GMOs, health, organic food, toxics (all these topics)

Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change The ecology of Lake Tanganyika -- Africa's second-largest body of water and site of the famed encounter between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone -- is under siege due to global climate change, according to studies by two independent teams of scientists. The scientists have found that rising air temperatures have reduced the lake's nutrient load a ...
Topics: Africa, climate, health, lakes (all these topics)

Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors Dozens of cleanup workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state -- the most contaminated site in the nation -- have registered complaints in the past two years about ammonia-laden vapors seeping up from waste tanks at the site. The workers bl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington (all these topics)

The Sperminator New Injection for Men Could Shake Up World of Contraceptives		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, population (all these topics)

Threat Level: Orange Legacy of Agent Orange Continues to Haunt Vietnam		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Threat Level: Orange Legacy of Agent Orange Continues to Haunt Vietnam Decades after the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with millions of gallons of Agent Orange, fish and livestock in some parts of the nation are still highly contaminated with dioxin and other toxic chemicals contained in the defoliant. Dioxin levels in some people's bloodstreams are also high, according to a new study published in the Journal of Occupational and En ...
Topics: health, toxics, Vietnam (all these topics)

Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries The withering heat wave in Europe, which is believed to have led to dozens if not hundreds of deaths, is now causing problems at nuclear facilities and other power plants. Government authorities in France and Germany have announced that they are relaxing rules to let plants pump warmer-than ...
Topics: climate, France, Germany, health, marine life, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Going Down in Flames California Bans Flame Retardants Linked to Serious Health Problems		11 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Going Down in Flames California Bans Flame Retardants Linked to Serious Health Problems In a precedent-setting move, California has become the first state in the nation to ban two flame-retardant chemicals that have been shown to accumulate in the blood of mothers and nursing infants. The chemicals, known as PBDEs, are widely used to coat furniture, electronics, plastics, and foams. The California ban will go into effect in 2008, giving ...
Topics: California, health (all these topics)

Working on the Chain Gang California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics		07 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Working on the Chain Gang California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics California will no longer use underpaid federal prisoners to recycle the tons of potentially dangerous electronics discarded by state workers. The decision to stop shipping e-waste to prisons came in response to pressure from environmental and labor activists, who also successfully protested ...
Topics: business, California, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Oh, Fudge EPA May Have Exaggerated Numbers on Safe Drinking Water		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Oh, Fudge EPA May Have Exaggerated Numbers on Safe Drinking Water The U.S. EPA may have fudged the numbers when it announced in a June report that "94 percent of the population served by community water systems were served by systems that met all health-based standards." Internal EPA documents suggest that the true number may be markedly lower -- 79 to 84 percent in 2002. The EPA's inspector genera ...
Topics: health, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Mass Destruction of Weapons Chemical Weapons Incineration in Anniston, Ala., Delayed		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mass Destruction of Weapons Chemical Weapons Incineration in Anniston, Ala., Delayed Just as local residents were scrambling for gas masks, the U.S. Army announced yesterday that it would delay startup of a controversial chemical-weapons incinerator in Anniston, Ala., until Friday, when a federal judge can consider an environmental group's request for a temporary restraining order against the facility. ...
Topics: air pollution, Alabama, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Choke-a-cola? Coke and Pepsi in India Reported to Contain High Pesticide Residues		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Choke-a-cola? Coke and Pepsi in India Reported to Contain High Pesticide Residues A dozen varieties of soft drinks sold by Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Delhi, India, contain "dangerously high" levels of pesticide residues, according to tests conducted by the Center for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based nonprofit. CSE accused the companies of drawing their so ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

The Smoking Gun? Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Raises Health Concerns in Iraq		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Smoking Gun? Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Raises Health Concerns in Iraq High levels of radiation are showing up at a number of sites throughout Iraq, thanks to the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons by U.S.-led forces during the war in March and April. DU is considered a potential cause of cancers and birth defects. Some Iraqi doctors and others say that use of DU ammunition during the 1991 Gulf ...
Topics: health, Iraq, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing -- and no public input	Shelley Smithson	30 Jul 2003	Main Dish
Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, based in Champaign-Urbana, is one of dozens of experiments being conducted across the country in which scientists are altering the genetic structure of animals ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, fishing, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

In the Swim of Things How to avoid the enviro nasties that lurk in pools	Carmela Federico	29 Jul 2003	Earthly Possessions
Let water sit around for 24 hours -- stagnating in an old tire, say, or in a birdbath in the backyard -- and some pretty nasty things can start breeding in it. After Mt. St. Helen's erupted in Washington State in 1980, newly formed oxygen-deprived pools became breeding grounds for Legionnaires' disease. Then there's cholera, typhoid, dysentery, and other illnesses that can be contracted from ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

There's No Base Like Home		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, North Carolina, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

There's No Base Like Home Is contaminated housing poisoning military families?	Justin Scheck	03 Jul 2003	Main Dish
Karen Strand was six in 1958 when her family moved into a house on the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina. It wasn't until 2000 that she made the connection between her ongoing health problems -- a bleeding ulcer at 19, thyroid and parathyroid problems, depression, and cysts and tumors that necessitated a complete hysterectomy -- and the chemical-smelling water she drank and bath ...
Topics: health (all these topics)

Grace Under Pressure		02 Jul 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, mining and drilling, Montana, toxics (all these topics)

A Pregnant Pause		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Pregnant Pause Women who were exposed to the pesticide DDT while in the womb had more difficulties getting pregnant as adults than did those who had no exposure, according to a new study published in the British medical journal Lancet. "This is the first research that shows it is possible that these exposures can cause problems 30 years down the line," said lead researcher Barbara Cohn, an epidemio ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, health, South America, toxics (all these topics)

Clear Skies Looking Dirty		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Clear Skies Looking Dirty One of President Bush's most ambitious environmental proposals is in jeopardy -- the goal of cutting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants 46 percent by 2010. Many in the utility industry are complaining that such a requirement, which is part of Bush's "Clear Skies" legislation, would cost far more than expected and could force some coal- ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Under the Wire		25 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Under the Wire Electromagnetic fields from home wiring, appliances, and power lines do not appear to cause breast cancer, according to a $2.5 million study of more than 1,100 women living in Long Island, N.Y. The study, published today in the online edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology, was part of the much larger Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project, a 10-year, $30 million effort to investigate the environmental causes ...
Topics: health, United States (all these topics)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mine		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Ghana, health, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mine Illegal gold mining in Ghana shafts locals' health and the environment	Josh Harkinson	24 Jun 2003	Main Dish
At I Trust My Legs, an illegal mining camp along a gray stream in the West African nation of Ghana, trespassers have bored vertical shafts deep into the ground. On a recent morning, Maxwell Adzoka strapped a lamp to his head, pressed his bare back and shoeless feet against the slick clay walls of one of these shafts, and climbed down, his yellow bulb disappearing i ...
Topics: Ghana, health, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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