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Headline	Author	Published	Section
New Economics 101	Suzy Becker	03 Sep 2002	Ha.

Topics: air pollution, health, politics (all these topics)

Another Anderson Scandal		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Another Anderson Scandal A court in India has rejected efforts to reduce the charges against Warren Anderson, the former chair of the U.S.-based company Union Carbide, which was responsible for a 1984 gas leak in Bhopal that killed 3,000 people and sickened tens of thousands more. The leak from a pesticide plant in the central Indian city was one of the worst industrial ac ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, India, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Czech It Out		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Czech It Out A "mini-Chernobyl" -- that's how a Czech investigating commission has described the potential threat posed by a chemical plant just north of Prague that was damaged in last week's flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. The commission warned that the highly toxic chlorine released by the Spolana plant during the floods and again late last week could threaten &qu ...
Topics: Czech Republic, European Union, health, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe As if being battered by severe storms wasn't enough, Central and Eastern Europe now face another threat: pollution unleashed by heavy flooding. In addition to concerns about contamination and disease from animal carcasses swept along by the floods, fears are now growing that toxic chemicals could be seeping from an inundated Czech chemical plant and washing th ...
Topics: European Union, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

To Summit Up		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Summit Up A global report card issued by the United Nations just two weeks before an international environmental summit has given low marks to the world's ecological condition. Among the report's more shocking findings: Three million people die annually from air pollution, while more than 1 billion people -- a sixth of the world's population -- lack access to safe drinking water. The report ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

More Than Meats the Eye		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
More Than Meats the Eye In the last two decades, there's been a national growth spurt in super-sized animal feedlots and slaughterhouses. That spurt has outpaced the ability of regulators to keep such places operating safely and cleanly -- and that has led to polluted water bodies, food safety scares, and on-the-job injuries, according to a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

How Now, Brown Cloud		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
How Now, Brown Cloud A dense blanket of pollution that is hovering over South Asia could cause millions of deaths in the region and pose a threat to the world at large, a group of 200 scientists announced today. Known as the "Asian Brown Cloud," the smog is an estimated two miles thick and covers the entire Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan. The ...
Topics: Afghanistan, air pollution, Asia, energy, health, India, Sri Lanka, wilderness (all these topics)

Scrambled Eggs		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Scrambled Eggs If you were looking for good news about endocrine disputers, you're out of luck. A global report by the World Health Organization has found extensive damage to wildlife from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and could not rule out possible risks for humans as well. EDCs -- which lurk in pesticide residues on food, plastics, household products, and industrial chemicals, among other pla ...
Topics: health, toxics, wildlife, World Health Organization (all these topics)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears Despite its foreign-sounding name, the West Nile virus is becoming an undeniably American concern. Eighty-eight new cases were reported in three states last week, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday that the mosquito-borne virus is here to stay. About one in five people who get the virus develop flu-like symptoms; less than 1 percent face the most ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife?		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife? It seems like a wilderness paradise, replete with mule deer, bald eagles, and foxes -- but Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal is also a Cold War relic contaminated by years of chemical weapons production. The 27-square-mile patch of land just 10 miles outside of Denver bears the paradoxical dual designation of National Wildlife Refuge and Superfund site. C ...
Topics: Colorado, health, pollution and waste, toxics, wilderness (all these topics)

Pick Your Poison		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Pick Your Poison In the First World, debate over genetically modified (GM) foods is about differing ideologies; in southern Africa, where famine is deepening its grip, it is about life and death. The U.S. has offered to provide emergency food aid in the form of corn to seven stricken African countries, but some of that corn has been genetically modified. That leaves the governments of those nati ...
Topics: Africa, business, GMOs, health, population, United States (all these topics)

Cut the Crop		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cut the Crop Concerned that experimental genetically modified (GM) crops could contaminate their unaltered counterparts and creep into the nation's food supply, the White House has drafted new rules to protect consumers and avoid costly and disruptive food recalls. The rules, which were written by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, propose preliminary crop-safety assessments before beginning large field tri ...
Topics: GMOs, health, politics, United States (all these topics)

Coal Shoulder		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Coal Shoulder Interior Secretary Gale Norton was snubbed today by seven West Virginia environmental groups, which declined an invitation to meet with her to discuss statewide mining issues. Norton initially offered to set aside a half-hour with the groups, coinciding with her visit to the state on the 25th anniversary of the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Prior to her appointment as Inter ...
Topics: energy, health, mining and drilling, Virginia (all these topics)

A New Day Lawning On lawn and garden pesticides	Umbra Fisk	30 Jul 2002	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, Goddess of Green Knowledge, A few years ago, a farmer friend of mine argued that more pesticides and chemical fertilizers are applied to suburban lawns and gardens than are used in commercial agriculture. I can see how this might be the case, given the massive size of the lawn and garden chemical industry, but I haven't been able to verify this information. Can you help? Ed Hunt Dearest Ed, Supplicant, The l ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, gardening, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast Ten years ago, a group of women headed to Washington, D.C., from their homes in Long Island, N.Y., to demand answers from the government about why so many women from their area were afflicted with breast cancer. Ultimately, the energy, dedication, and political savvy of those women rocketed the Long Island breast cancer story into the national spotlight and mobilized a movement to look for enviro ...
Topics: health, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and a coalition of Republican colleagues, manufacturers, and trucking industry reps are pressuring the Bush administration to postpone a strict new anti-pollution standard for diesel trucks. Why? Because Illinois-based Caterpillar ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Justice, health, Illinois, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Condom-nation		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Condom-nation The Bush administration said yesterday that it would withdraw $34 million in international family planning funds from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), arguing that the organization supports programs in China that force women to have abortions, in direct violation of U.S. law. U.N. officials denied promoting abortions in China (or anywhere else, for that matter), saying ...
Topics: health, politics, population, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Where the Sun Don't Shine		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Where the Sun Don't Shine Confirming fears of those opposed to genetic engineering, researchers in Great Britain reported this week that DNA from transgenic crops can find its way into the bacteria that dwell in the human intestines. In a study by scientists at the University of Newcastle, seven volunteers (all of whom had earlier had their lower bowels removed in unrelated surgeries) were given a single meal consisting of a b ...
Topics: GMOs, health, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Bangladeath		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bangladeath Arsenic has a long and glorious history in the annals of crime fiction, but for the people of Bangladesh, poisoning by arsenic is all too real. With 35 million people drinking arsenic-tainted water, the country is in the midst of what the World Health Organization is calling the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." Ironically, the problem has its ...
Topics: Bangladesh, health, toxics, water pollution, World Health Organization (all these topics)

The Boys, a Bummer, Are Gone		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Boys, a Bummer, Are Gone Boys exposed to certain pollutants during adolescence are far less likely to have sons in adulthood, according to a study published in today's edition of the British scientific journal the Lancet. The study looked at thousands of people in the Taiwanese city of Yucheng who used cooking oil containing high concentrations of PCBs. It found that young men exposed to PCBs before the age of 20 were 35 percent ...
Topics: health, Taiwan, toxics (all these topics)

Coca Is It!		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Coca Is It! Efforts by the United States to combat cocaine production in Colombia by spraying coca crops with herbicides are coming up against a provision requiring the spraying to meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S. Translation: The U.S. EPA must certify that the spraying "does not pose unreasonable risks or adverse effects to humans or the environment." The herbicide in use in C ...
Topics: Colombia, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

In the Line of Fire Life in the Stupid Zone	Michelle Nijhuis	11 Jul 2002	Soapbox
Writer Ed Quillen says that town and county planners should adopt a new category called the Stupid Zone. You know some Stupid Zone residents, I'm sure: those nearsighted folks who choose to live at the bottom of avalanche chutes, on top of earthquake faults, or in the middle of a 10-year floodplain. Like me, you might have sighed at their various predicaments, thinking, Too bad, but didn't they know what was coming? Stup ...
Topics: health, West (all these topics)

Lima Beaned		10 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Lima Beaned Roughly 1,000 Peruvian peasants arrived in their nation's capital this week to demand that the government take action against contamination or seizure of land by mining companies. Peru is the world's fifth-largest producer of copper and eighth-largest producer of gold, and the mining industry is responsible for half of the nation's annual export income. But big mining companies, often for ...
Topics: health, mining and drilling, Peru, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bad Medicine On flushing medications	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I work with a number of older women who try to be environmentally conscientious. When it comes to discarding outdated medications though, there seems to be conflicting advice. Medical doctors tell me that all such medicines should be flushed down the toilet. Water resource people say, don't flush, because all those discarded medicines are seeping into groundwater. Sigh. What are we to do? Jonell Cadman Dearest Jonell, The ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Grim Limb Gym On chlorinated swimming pools	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I recently managed to mangle my knee and am going through all the 4,673 steps necessary to unmangle it and make it happy and functional again. One of the things my doctor advised me to do was swim. Well, swimming pools are of course full of chlorine! Hey, I just bought an expensive filter for my shower to keep the chlorine off the largest organ of my body, my skin. So what are the risks of contact with chlorinated water ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, sports, toxics (all these topics)

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