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Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish Two studies released yesterday are likely to confuse you even further about the benefits and risks of eating fish. A report from the Harvard School of Public Health claims that fish consumption can reduce the risk of coronary death by 36 percent, and total mortality by 17 percent -- benefits that far o ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Stick With Pickles and Ice Cream Pregnant women shouldn't eat canned tuna, says Consumer Reports		08 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Stick With Pickles and Ice Cream Pregnant women shouldn't eat canned tuna, says Consumer Reports We're all aware that pregnant women shouldn't overeat seafood because of mercury contamination, but the Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, recommends that moms-to-be skip canned tuna altogether. Most canned light tuna is skipjack, a species relatively low in mercury, but a Chicago Tribune investigation late last ...
Topics: marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings California law requires products containing chemicals that could cause reproductive harm or cancer to have warning labels, but a state Superior Court judge has ruled that the law does not apply to mercury-licious canned tuna. Mercury has been shown to slow neurological development, thus the ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Fin and Dandy Low-mercury fish label debuts in Northern California		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Fin and Dandy Low-mercury fish label debuts in Northern California If you love fish but avoid it because you're worried about high mercury content, you may be in luck -- if you live in Northern California, that is. Pacific Seafood Group, a large fish wholesaler, has partnered with Holiday Quality Foods, a chain of 19 grocery stores in rural Northern California, to test-market fish labeled as low-mercury. Fish to be s ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Toxic Femmes SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish		14 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Toxic Femmes SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish Like many of their land-bound counterparts, male fish off the coast of Southern California are developing female sex characteristics. In the fishes' case it goes beyond metrosexuality -- we're talking ovary tissue in the testes (ew). Researchers strongly suspect sewage laced with human-made hormone-disrupting chemicals. Two separate studies, one in the field and one ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Looney Tuna Feds, pressured by industry, lax in warning public about mercury in tuna		01 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Looney Tuna Feds, pressured by industry, lax in warning public about mercury in tuna The Wall Street Journal today continues its series on toxic chemicals and human health by taking a hard look at some fishy dealings concerning tuna and mercury. For years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has known that canned tuna contains mercury. A mercury risk assessment from the U.S. EPA strongly suggested that children and women of chi ...
Topics: marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Just Breathe Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S.	Kathryn Schulz	17 Jun 2005	Counter Culture
14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Little Crab'll Do Ya New Chesapeake Bay conservation ads appeal to appetites		29 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
A Little Crab'll Do Ya New Chesapeake Bay conservation ads appeal to appetites The Chesapeake Bay Program's current public-education campaign features the catchy, slogan "Save the Crabs ... Then Eat 'Em," sure to enrage easily enraged animal-rights activists everywhere. Via billboards, TV commercials, and print ads, the campaign asks area residents to wait until fall to fertiliz ...
Topics: advertising, animal welfare, business, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Fish 'n' Chicks Study finds excessive mercury in 20 percent of women of childbearing age		22 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Fish 'n' Chicks Study finds excessive mercury in 20 percent of women of childbearing age A new Greenpeace-commissioned study on the correlation between fish consumption and levels of mercury in the body has produced interim results, and they may cause you to think twice about your next order of a tuna-salad sandwich. The study analyzed hair samples sent in by people, many of whom read about the study on the inter ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Fish and Tips Advice to Help Consumers Navigate Choppy Seafood Waters		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, health, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Fish and Tips Get the word on seafood that's safe to consume	Mindy Pennybacker, P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide	24 Feb 2004	Earthly Possessions
By Mindy Pennybacker and P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide 24 Feb 2004 The dish on fish. It's been a winter of bad news for seafood lovers. A joint draft fish advisory from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. EPA added tuna -- America's second-most popular seafood after shrimp -- to its list of mercury-containing fish that should be restricted in the diets of pregnant women and young children. A separate new study found ...
Topics: marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury Roughly 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams, revealed a U.S. EPA analysis released yesterday, which doubles the previously estimated numb ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, health, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution New research indicates that human-made toxins have infiltrated deep and remote parts of the ocean. The Ocean Alliance, a Massachusetts-based research organization, has found troubling levels of DDT, PCBs, and other contaminants in the blubber of sperm whales. Scienti ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Streaming Media Judge Bans Pesticide Use Near Northwest Salmon Runs		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Streaming Media Judge Bans Pesticide Use Near Northwest Salmon Runs A federal judge Thursday banned the use of a wide range of pesticides in and around thousands of miles of waterways in the Northwest frequented by endangered salmon, and required stores selling seven of the most dangerous banned pesticides to display signs reading &q ...
Topics: environmental justice, fishing, green living, marine life, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Pesticidal EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Pesticidal EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group Fourteen leading chemical companies have formed a task force that is meeting in secret with the U.S. EPA, attempting to weaken endangered species rules relating to pesticide use -- so charges a lawsuit filed against the EPA on Thursday by a coalition of Seattle-based environmental groups. The lawsuit ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, Washington (all these topics)

Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties Consumers, still struggling with the news that bovine spongiform encephalopathy-laden beef will make your brain melt and mercury-laden tuna will make your children stupid, were met today with more bad news: A new study in the journal Science claims that fish-farmed salmon contain enoug ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, green living, health, marine life, South America, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Fish Less Foul Strict Environmental Laws Yield Drop in Mercury Levels in Everglades		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Fish Less Foul Strict Environmental Laws Yield Drop in Mercury Levels in Everglades Mercury levels in the wildlife of the Florida's Everglades have declined by at least 60 percent over the last decade, according to a study by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The findings were hailed as the first indicator that efforts to reduce mercury pollution are paying off. The drop in mercury levels is largely ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Happy As a Clam Prozac Ingredient Found to Accumulate in Fish		28 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Happy As a Clam Prozac Ingredient Found to Accumulate in Fish Traces of the antidepressant Prozac have been found in fish in central Texas, according to first-of-its-kind research conducted by scientists at Baylor University. Fluoxetine hydrochloride, the active ingredient in Prozac, likely made its way into the fish tissue after passing through human bodies, through the sewer system, and then throug ...
Topics: marine life, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Minding Nemo Tropical Fish Trade Threatens Coral Reef Ecosystems		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Minding Nemo Tropical Fish Trade Threatens Coral Reef Ecosystems More than 20 million tropical fish and up to 10 million other marine critters are caught each year for the aquarium trade, according to a new report from the U.N. Environment Programme. One of the most destructive harvesting methods involves stunning tropical fish with a near-lethal dose of sodium cyanide, which can harm not only fish but c ...
Topics: Asia, marine life, oceans, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals If the orange foam caused by Canadian aquaculture isn't enough to scare you away from farmed fish, how about the presence of malachite green, a fabric dye suspected to cause cancer, in Chilean farmed salmon? This year, European countries seized dozens of tons of farmed salmon from Chile that were found to have been con ...
Topics: Chile, globalization, marine life, toxics, United States (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)

Paint Misbehavin'		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Paint Misbehavin' Vexed by barnacles, algae, and other wee hitchhikers that attach themselves to the hulls of ships, the maritime industry has been fighting back with a paint that keeps hulls clean for one to five years by slowly releasing biocides that kill off unwanted organisms. Problem is, the critter-killing paint additives don't stay put -- they leach out into seawater where they can damage coral reefs and kill mollu ...
Topics: marine life, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: ... Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

The Fish-scales of Justice		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Fish-scales of Justice California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing five major grocery store chains to force them to warn customers that tuna, swordfish, and shark may contain dangerously high levels of mercury. In the suit, Lockyer claims that Safeway, Kroger, Albertson's, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods are violating Proposition 65, which requires companies to provide "clear and reasonab ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Oil and Water Don't Mix		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

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