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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 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)

White House Whitewash		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
White House Whitewash In a first-of-its-kind environmental survey released today, the U.S. EPA said that the nation's air, water, and land are cleaner and better protected than they were 30 years ago, though sprawl and air quality, among other problems, continue to pose challenges for the nation. But the survey's credibility was compromised by reports last week that the White House heavily edi ...
Topics: health, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

More Than a Year of Living Dangerously		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
More Than a Year of Living Dangerously Indonesian citizens, particularly children, are suffering from a rise in industrial pollution that has accompanied the nation's rapid economic growth, according to a World Bank report released today. More than 6 million vehicles were added to Indonesia's streets between 1995 and 2000, and many of them use leaded gasol ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Indonesia, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (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)

The Fat of the Land		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
The Fat of the Land Sprawl has been accused of many evils, but here's a new one: It may make you fat. While suburban residents drive to get most places they go, many city dwellers walk or ride bikes, and that physical exercise seems to keep urbanites slimmer. "[I]f you choose to live in a sprawling environment, you are more likely to be overweight," says Lawrence D. Frank, a professor of urban planning at the U ...
Topics: health, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Air Heads		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Air Heads California's San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control Board unanimously approved a plan yesterday intended to improve some of the worst air quality in the nation -- but critics say the plan makes too many concessions to industry to be effective. Enviros, doctors, and residents who have suffered from respiratory ailments allege that efforts to reduce dust and diesel smoke will be fa ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Eh?		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot, Eh? The amount of dangerous industrial contaminants seeping into Canada's environment has risen 20 percent since 1995, according to a report by three environmental organizations that compiled data from industrial polluters. The biggest increase came in discharges into lakes and rivers, which rose 37 percent, while air and land pollution each rose 9 percent. The increase in hazardous pollutan ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Fly in the Ointment		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

A Fly in the Ointment The green take on insect repellents and sunscreens	Molly Rauch, P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide	18 Jun 2003	Earthly Possessions
By Molly Rauch and P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide 18 Jun 2003 As summer finally rolls in, most of us are eager to shed our layers and splash in the surf or hike through the woods. Along the way, we might slap on some SPF 30 sunscreen to ward off skin cancer and hose down our arms and necks with skeeter repellent. But rather than go wild with DEET and just any old high-SPF sunscreen, it's best to consider some potential ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

Light on Their Fleet		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Light on Their Fleet The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear a case about whether the Los Angeles area can go beyond the federal Clean Air Act to impose strict anti-pollution rules on buses, taxis, garbage trucks, airport shuttles, and other vehicle fleets. Oil companies and engine manufacturers challenged a rule issued in 2000 by the South Coast Air Quality Management District that requires owne ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

A Fine Kettle of Fish		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Fine Kettle of Fish The federal Clean Water Act might be a great thing in theory, but how's it doing in practice? Not so well, it turns out, due to the failure of the U.S. EPA to adequately enforce it. At any given moment, roughly 25 percent of all large industrial plants and water-treatment facilities are in violation of federal pollution standards -- but the EPA generally fails to ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Eat Generation		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, food and agriculture, health (all these topics)

Tunnel at the End of the Tunnel		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tunnel at the End of the Tunnel A coalition that includes the Sierra Club, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and the Abyssinian Baptist Church is backing a project to build a new tunnel under New York Harbor to reduce truck traffic in the city. The proposed rail freight tunnel would divert almost a million truck-trips per year away from the George Washington Bridge; it is supported by business, l ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, placemaking, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Oh, the Humanity		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Oh, the Humanity Before they can be put on the market, pesticides are usually tested for safety on animals. Government regulators then establish an exposure level for humans that is 10 times more conservative than the safety level for animals. In an effort to abolish the tenfold safety net, pesticide companies frequently sponsor clinical tests on volunteers to try to prove that their products are as ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Another Roadside Detraction		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Another Roadside Detraction The Washington State Department of Transportation has come under attack by citizens who say its practice of spraying the sides of roads to control weeds puts people and the environment at risk. Last year, a decade after promising to reduce its herbicide use, the department instead hit an eight-year high, applying more than 120,000 pounds of weed-killer alongside state roads. C ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Puff the Toxic Dragon On green reasons to quit smoking	Umbra Fisk	15 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I want to quit smoking. As if the risks to my health weren't enough, could you help out by twisting that knife of guilt into my tree-hugging heart and give me some environmental reasons to stop supporting the tobacco industry? Cough, wheeze, Elaine Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Dearest Elaine, I don't care whether you smoke or not. In fact, I think anti-smoking hype is often thinly disguised clas ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Sonic Doom		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sonic Doom At least half a dozen dead porpoises have washed up on beaches in Washington state and British Columbia in the last week, spurring speculation that they were killed when the USS Shoup, a Navy destroyer, used its high-intensity sonar last Monday as it traveled near the San Juan Islands off the Washington coast. Observers reported that as many as 100 porpoises leapt through the water at high speed in an attempt to ge ...
Topics: health, marine life, politics (all these topics)

Down Under Water		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Down Under Water The folks down under will have a lot to be down about if climate change proceeds as projected. Rising temperatures could trigger a 164 percent increase in heat-related deaths in Australia by 2050 and an increase of up to 240 percent in injuries and deaths caused by flooding by 2020, according to a study commissioned by the Australian government. Tropical diseases like malaria and dengue could also ...
Topics: Australia, health, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Canada-Do Spirit		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Canada-Do Spirit Societies tend to measure progress in narrow economic terms -- gross domestic product, employment figures, trade deficits. Now an influential team in Canada is proposing that the country become the first in the world to measure its ecological health with the same care and precision. The National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy today is releasing a government-commissioned report that calls for Canada ...
Topics: business, Canada, health (all these topics)

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary Two businessmen want to build a massive cow town in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, providing a home for 90,000 cattle and 600 dairy farmers and their families. Sounds like a recipe for environmental disaster, right? Maybe not: In this case, the plan is to make the development a model of eco-friendly large-scale farming. Meth ...
Topics: California, health, ranching, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

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