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Here's to Your Health		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
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Topics: health (all these topics)

Tupperscare Parties		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Tupperscare Parties A chemical commonly used in food packaging and other plastics may cause miscarriages and Down's syndrome, according to a study published this week in the journal Current Biology. Geneticists at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University found that exposure to even small quantities of bisphenol A (BPA), a substance that mimics the hormone estrogen, can disrupt chromosomal alignment in mouse embryos, killi ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

I Could Have Had a C8		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
I Could Have Had a C8 Nothing sticks to Teflon, they say -- but a key ingredient in Teflon could be sticking to you. A chemical manufactured by Dupont and used to make Teflon and other products may pose health risks for women of childbearing age and young girls, according to an internal U.S. EPA document. The chemical, ammonium perfluorooctanoate, known more commonly as PFOA or C8, accumulates in human blood. A chemical related to C ...
Topics: health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Cleaner Smoke Stacki Thanks to Pataki		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Cleaner Smoke Stacki Thanks to Pataki New York state now boasts the nation's strictest pollution controls on power plants, thanks to measures approved yesterday by Gov. George Pataki (R). The announcement was met with joy by environmentalists, who had been pushing for the tougher rules for upwards of three years, but the electricity industry said the move would cost custumers while doing little to redu ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Ides of Marsh		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Ides of Marsh Verdant marshes and wetlands were much of what helped put the "fertile" in the Fertile Crescent, that swath of land between the Tigris and Euphrates that is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. But in the last few decades, those marshes have been all but destroyed by dam-building and civil strife in Iraq. Those marshes that do remain could disappear in a ...
Topics: environmental restoration, health, United Nations, wetlands (all these topics)

The Spoils of War		20 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Spoils of War The war against Iraq that began last night will lead to "massive and possibly irreversible" environmental damage to the Persian Gulf region and contribute significantly to global warming, experts cautioned this week. Environmentalists who have been monitoring the situation say the ecological destruction could be radically worse than the damage sustained during the 1991 Gulf War. In that conflict ...
Topics: health, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Burden of Proof What we don't know about the toxic chemicals in our bodies	Elizabeth Sawin	19 Mar 2003	Soapbox
Scientists call the accumulation of chemical contaminants (such as PCBs, mercury, and pesticides) within a person's body the "body burden." Body burden is just a number, a concentration in parts per billion or micrograms per liter. But the term calls forth an image, too, of a body bent over and struggling beneath a heavy load. When scientists start taking about body burden, I think ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Burden of Proof		19 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
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Good, Clean Fun How to clean your house without hurting the planet	The Green Guide	18 Mar 2003	Earthly Possessions
If you think of your home as a haven from pollution, we've got some bummer news. Levels of pollutants in indoor air can be from two to more than 100 times higher than outdoors, according to the U.S. EPA. That indoor pollution is due in large part to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate, or "offgas," from home decorating and cleaning products. Make your home clean and gree ...
Topics: green cleaning, green living, green products, health (all these topics)

Breathing Sleazy		17 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Breathing Sleazy The U.S. EPA assured New Yorkers that the smoky, dusty air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe in the days immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but an independent federal investigation has found plenty of evidence to the contrary. In making its claims, the EPA assumed a cancer risk level 100 times greater than what is normally considered "acceptable" for public ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, US EPA (all these topics)

Menstruation Innovation On that time of the month	Umbra Fisk	12 Mar 2003	Ask Umbra
Hey there, Umbra! I have a kind of gross-yet-pressing question for you: Are sanitary products (pads, etc.) environmentally friendly? I would think no, but what do you say? And what can I do about it? Thanks, Jessica Telford, Tenn. Hey there, dearest Jessica, How is it possible that we live in a country where diapers are table conversation and menstruation is considered gross? But no worries, there are many nice flowe ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, toxics, waste (all these topics)

PBDE Heebie-jeebies		12 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
PBDE Heebie-jeebies Women in the San Francisco Bay Area have three to 10 times the amount of a dangerous persistent organic pollutant in their breast tissue as do either European or Japanese women, according to a study released yesterday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants commonly used in foam, textiles, and plastic electro ...
Topics: California, European Union, health, Japan, San Francisco (all these topics)

You Be Illin'		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
You Be Illin' Almost 150 power plants, factories, and other businesses in Illinois are operating without federal clean-air permits, according to a statewide coalition of environmental and public-health organizations. Federal law required Illinois' 733 worst polluters to pass emissions standards and receive appropriate permits by March 1998, but as of yesterday, four years after the deadline, only 80 pe ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Illinois, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Motherboard of Invention		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Motherboard of Invention As Grist reported Monday, discarded electronic equipment poses a serious environmental and health hazard in the developing world, where obsolete computers and other products are stripped and recycled. Now, we have some good news to add; 16 electronics recyclers in the U.S. and Canada have committed to keeping monitors, cables, and motherboards out of the hands of impoverish ...
Topics: green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

9021-woe		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
9021-woe Remember that episode of 90210 where Brenda and Dylan fell ill from toxic gases leaking out of oil wells and into Beverly Hills High School? Actually, that never happened on the show -- but according to famed environmental legal crusader Erin Brockovich, it happened in real life. Brockovich and her partner, Ed Masry, are preparing to sue Beverly ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics (all these topics)

All That Jazz and Dredging		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
All That Jazz and Dredging The federal government has earmarked $370 million to clean up the waterways of East Chicago, one of the most polluted areas in the Great Lakes region -- and the town's citizens are unhappy about it. Local residents and environmental groups say the remediation solution proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is as hazardous to the community's health as the ori ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago, Great Lakes, health, Illinois (all these topics)

No Kidding		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
No Kidding Combating environmental hazards has helped improve children's health, according to a new report by the White House and the U.S. EPA. The report, which is scheduled to be released shortly, found that childhood lead poisoning and children's exposure to second-hand smoke have both declined, largely due to targeted campaigns. However, the remaining cases of lead poisoning disproportionately affect poor and min ...
Topics: air pollution, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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)

She Blinded Me With Science		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, health (all these topics)

Salem Switch Trials		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Salem Switch Trials Massachusetts is sticking to its guns on clean air, Gov. Mitt Romney (R) announced this morning. The state refused to extend a deadline for heavily polluting power plants to reduce their emissions, meaning they'll have to clean up their acts by 2004. In 2001, then-acting Gov. Jane Swift (R) imposed the deadline on the state's so-called Filthy Five power plants, ordering them t ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney (all these topics)

Beam Me Up		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Beam Me Up The U.S. food industry is increasingly turning to irradiation to kill deadly bacteria such as E. coli and listeria in meat -- a move environmentalists, food-safety advocates, and others say could amount to leaping from the frying pan into the fire. Irradiation uses high-energy electrons, gamma rays, or X-rays to kill bacteria. Critics say the process depletes vitamins and nutrients and leaves chemical byproducts in f ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health (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)

First Down		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
First Down The parent company of a power plant in eastern Ohio has become the first of 36 energy utilities to be tried for causing smog and health problems in the Northeast. In a lawsuit that began yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department accused FirstEnergy Corporation of significantly upgrading its W.H. Sammis plant without installing new pollution controls, a ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, Northeast, Ohio, politics, pollution and waste (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)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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