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Give a Honk, Don't Pollute		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Give a Honk, Don't Pollute On top of warming up the earth, pollution from burning fossil fuels is killing thousands of people a year, according to a study published in the journal Science. For starters, Devra Lee Davis of Carnegie Mellon University and four coauthors found that if Mexico City, New York, Sao Paulo, and Santiago employed technologies that now exist to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 64,000 premature deaths an ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health (all these topics)

Landfill, Ho!		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Landfill, Ho! Babies born to mothers living near landfills are more likely to suffer minor birth defects, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal. The 11-year study shows that pregnant women living near landfills in the U.K. had a 1 percent higher chance of having a baby with a congenital defect. That risk jumped to 7 percent if the landfill contained hazardous waste. Pat Tro ...
Topics: health, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom (all these topics)

On De Loose		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
On De Loose Greenpeace U.K. is in a tizzy because of mysterious DNA found in Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, the world's most widely grown genetically engineered crop. The unexpected string of DNA, which was found by Belgian government and university scientists, is located next to the corn's inserted gene, provoking the enviro group to accuse Monsanto of not knowing as much about its product as it should. Green ...
Topics: GMOs, Greenpeace, health, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Residon'ts		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Residon'ts Nearly half the fruit and vegetables sold in U.K. supermarkets since 1998 contained pesticide residues, according to an analysis of government pesticide data by Friends of the Earth. The group said most of the residues were within legal limits, but it raised concerns that the individual chemicals could be dangerous in combination, especially for u ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, health, toxics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Bug Bang Boom		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Bug Bang Boom A California appeals court ruled yesterday that pesticide companies can be sued over concerns that home bug sprays are making people sick. The court in Los Angeles rejected arguments by Dow Chemical and other chemical manufacturers that they were protected from suits covering chemicals approved by the U.S. EPA for residential use. It said the EPA-approved warning labels could not be challenged, but a jury ...
Topics: California, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Coughing Up the Dough		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Coughing Up the Dough In the latest victory for residents suffering from pollution-related health problems in a Japanese city, 10 companies agreed today to pay $12.2 million to 260 locals who went to court to protest emissions from the companies' factories. The out-of-court settlement ends a 12-year dispute in which the Nagoya residents contended that the factory emissions and pollution from cars on a nearby governm ...
Topics: air pollution, business, health, Japan (all these topics)

A Rash Attack		02 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
A Rash Attack A flight attendant for United Airlines has sued the airline for exposing flight crews to pesticides on planes serving Australia and New Zealand. The attendant, Susan Matthews, says she developed a full-body rash after contact with the pesticides. The spraying -- which has been banned in the U.S. -- occurs about once every eight weeks to keep nonnative insects from hitching rides and potentially wreakin ...
Topics: Australia, health, New Zealand, toxics (all these topics)

Just Spray No		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Just Spray No Despite a judge's order to temporarily cease fumigating coca and poppy plants with the herbicide glyphosate because of environmental and health concerns, Colombia said yesterday it would not stop the antidrug operation. The judge on Friday asked the Colombian government to explain what it knows about the effects of glyphosate on people and the environment. His final ruling on a petition by indigenous groups to h ...
Topics: health, South America, toxics (all these topics)

Be All That You Can Be		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Be All That You Can Be Thousands of workers in the U.S. may develop a fatal lung disease because companies have exposed them to the highly toxic metal beryllium without safeguards or warnings, according to a Chicago Tribune investigation. Beryllium disease, once only a problem with the defense industry, appears to be on the rise in the electronics, recycling, and dental industries. It turns out that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Ad ...
Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

The Great Brain Robbery		19 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Great Brain Robbery Eating fish tainted with PCBs may cause memory loss and brain damage in adults, according to a study of Michigan residents. The study by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the first to suggest that PCBs in fish may have health implications for all adults; state fish advisories until now have focused on protecting pregnant women, fetuses, and young children. Michigan ships ...
Topics: health, marine life, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Dental Damn		18 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dental Damn A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the American Dental Association last month for misleading consumers about the content and safety of dental fillings. The groups say the ADA is duping consumers into believing that amalgam fillings are made of silver, when the major component is actually mercury. A scientist from the University of Kentucky recently testified before Congress that most people with a ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Kweisi for You		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Kweisi for You The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said last week that it would sue companies that manufactured lead paint. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume described exposure to lead paint as a "civil rights issue." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that low-income children are eight times more likely to live in hom ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, non-government organizations, politics, toxics (all these topics)

School Days, School Days, Dear Old Diesel Fuel Days	Suzy Becker	30 Apr 2001	Ha.

Topics: health, placemaking (all these topics)

Therapy for the Silent	Suzy Becker	09 Apr 2001	Ha.

Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

Insane in the Ukraine	Suzy Becker	05 Mar 2001	Ha.

Topics: health, nuclear power, Ukraine (all these topics)

Reality Bites	Donella H. Meadows	05 Sep 2000	Global Citizen
Linda Harrar is an independent filmmaker, based in Boston but usually traveling the world producing documentaries for NOVA and other PBS programs. Through the lens of the camera, she sees a lot. In the editing room she sees it over and over. It sinks in deep. So she had a strong reaction to the CBS "reality TV" series Survivor. A "survivor" in Haiti. Photo: U.N. Photos. "I have searing memories of true struggles to survi ...
Topics: health, TV (all these topics)

Third Time's the Charm?	Donella H. Meadows	12 Jun 2000	Global Citizen
Three stories have hit the news lately concerning three corporations that have done -- or may have done -- serious environmental harm. They are coping with the situation in very different ways. Taken together, the stories suggest an odd combination of hope and cynicism. There are signs of honesty, good will, real learning. But the damage is great, and the learning is slow. Story No. 1 is the latest development in a decades-long saga in ...
Topics: business, health, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

It's Report-Card Time	Donella H. Meadows	22 May 2000	Global Citizen
The timing is unbearable. Here on my desk in the middle of the blooming, buzzing month of May is the best report yet on the state of the world's ecosystems. Best not because it contains good news -- it doesn't -- but because it's short and clear and blunt. The report evaluates the health of our life-support system with a simple grid of colored squares. Five columns across the top list the five kinds of ecosystems from which we live -- ag ...
Topics: health (all these topics)

Waiter, There's a Fly Gene in My Soup	Suzy Becker	05 May 2000	Ha.

Topics: GMOs, health (all these topics)

Wet's the Matter?	Adam I. Lowe	03 May 2000	Counter Culture
1.1 billion -- the number of people worldwide who lack an adequate and safe supply of water for their daily needs, approximately one in five 5 million --- the number of people, mostly children, who die each year from illnesses caused by poor-quality water supplies 5 -- the minimum number of gallons of water needed to meet a person's daily needs, according to the World Health Organization 4.5 -- the average number of gallons of water consumed daily pe ...
Topics: health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Can We Measure Sustainability?	Donella H. Meadows	22 Feb 2000	Global Citizen
Every year at the peak of the Alpine ski season, the world's movers and shakers, the heads of the largest corporations and wealthiest governments, head for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year an event occurred there that was largely unreported but possibly historic. The attendees were presented with a ranking of the world's nations according to environmental sustainability. The search for sustainability mea ...
Topics: business, health, politics (all these topics)

It's the Pits	Suzy Becker	14 Feb 2000	Ha.

Topics: health, ozone (all these topics)

The Dirt on Pesticides	Josh Sevin	03 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
4.1 billion pounds of pesticides are used throughout the world each year 30 times more pesticides are used today than were used in 1945 30 percent of insecticides are believed to be carcinogenic 60 percent of herbicides are believed to be carcinogenic 90 percent of fungicides are believed to be carcinogenic 23 of the 28 most commonly used pesticides are believed to be carcinogenic an estimated 20,000 cancer deaths each year in the U.S. are caused ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States (all these topics)

The Deep Six	Donella H. Meadows	12 Oct 1999	Global Citizen
Months ago, the United Nations decided to make an event out of the fact that the human population meter would soon click over another billion. They picked an arbitrary date -- October 12 -- and declared it the Day of 6 Billion. What kind of event should this be? A day of repentance? A celebration? In a world of soundbites, what's the right tone here? Six billion, oh woe? Six billion, yippee? Six billion. But who's counting? My guess is that " ...
Topics: green living, health, logging, marine life, population (all these topics)

Absolut Advertising	Ben White	28 Jul 1999	Muckraker
If you are like us (and we bet you are) you were sipping your coffee and peacefully perusing your New York Times Tuesday morning when POW! you were smacked upside the head by a clever full-page ad from the Environmental Working Group previewing its release of a study on the effects of the herbicide atrazine. The ad, mimicking the long-running Absolut Vodka campaign, pictures a baby bottle with an atrazine-warning label. The caption reads, "Absolu ...
Topics: agriculture, Environmental Working Group, health, Muckraker, national forests, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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