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Ducking Donald
U.S. forest official will not be jailed over fish-killing flame retardant |
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28 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:09 PM on 28 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service turned in a court-ordered environmental analysis of a fish-killing flame retardant 2 1/2 years late, and only after the agency's top official was threatened with incarceration for contempt of court. But the USFS did ultimately conduct the environmental review of ammonium phosphate -- which was dropped on an Oregon fire in 2002 and subsequently killed ... |
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| Topics: litigation, national forests, news, politics, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Smell That Fresh Err
National parks chock full o' chemicals, says study |
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27 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:08 PM on 27 Feb 2008 Our prized natural places are hardly pristine, according to a six-year federal study. Researchers looked at the air, water, soil, lichen, conifer needles, and fish in 20 national parks and monuments. They found a total of some 70 contaminants, from near as well as far, local pesticide residue mingling with mercury wafted in from overseas. At eight parks, fish were too full of chemicals to be ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, national parks, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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The Male of the Species Is More Female Than the Female
California sewage makes for femme fish, says study |
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22 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:18 PM on 22 Feb 2008 Chemicals in southern California wastewater are sneaking past sewage-treatment plants and into the ocean, where they can seriously wack out fishy hormone levels, according to preliminary research. Flame retardants, PCBs, residue from long-banned pesticide DDT, and other chemicals from pills and beauty products have all showed up in the water, via human pee. ... |
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| Topics: California, news, oceans, toxics (all these topics) |
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Living Through Chemistry
Toxics report shows slight dip in U.S. releases overall, mercury releases up |
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22 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:56 AM on 22 Feb 2008 The U.S. EPA's 2006 Toxics Release Inventory just came out, showing a slight decline in total toxic chemicals released in the country, as well as a 17 percent increase in releases of mercury. Individual states showed mixed results, with Arizona's total toxic releases shooting up by 52 percent from 2005 to 2006 due almost entirely to pollution from one mine that ... |
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| Topics: news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Numb31Mrs
CBS to pay $31 million to clean up Indiana Superfund sites |
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20 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:43 AM on 20 Feb 2008 The media giant CBS has agreed to pay $31 million to clean up six ultra-polluted Superfund sites around Bloomington, Ind. CBS is the corporate successor of Westinghouse, which ran industrial operations in the area that polluted streams and groundwater with high concentrations of PCBs. An agreement to clean up the contamination in the 1990s was abandoned; CBS has been negotiating another deal wi ... |
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| Topics: business, Indiana, news, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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A Batt Out of Hell
Mattel, Toys |
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19 Feb 2008 |
News |
| "R" Us to phase out cadmium batteries, citing toxicity Posted at 6:49 AM on 19 Feb 2008 Toy giants Mattel and Toys "R" Us have announced they will phase out cadmium batteries due to their toxicity and the associated health problems they can cause at the factories in China that produce them. Scores of factory workers have been sickened by cadmium, which can cause lung cancer, bone disease, and kidney failure, but cadmium batteries are still use ... |
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| Topics: business, China, news, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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A hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
Why burning a vinyl album is a bad idea |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: advice, green living, health, music, toxics (all these topics) |
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It's Like the Fog, but More Toxic
Aerial spraying of pesticide on Bay Area given OK |
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15 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:03 PM on 15 Feb 2008 The California agriculture department has authorized nighttime aerial pesticide spraying on the San Francisco Bay Area this summer in an attempt to eradicate a potentially crop-destroying moth. Similar spraying was done in two other counties this fall, after which more than 600 residents complained of respiratory problems. Application of the pesticide, called Checkmate, was only ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, California, news, San Francisco, toxics (all these topics) |
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Attack of the superweeds
While global GMO acreage surges, herbicide-resistent weeds thrive |
Tom Philpott |
14 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs, industrial ag, toxics (all these topics) |
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'Hyde and Shriek
CDC confirms FEMA trailers tainted with formaldehyde; residents urged to move |
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14 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:03 PM on 14 Feb 2008 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has confirmed that the trailers used to house Gulf Coast hurricane victims are tainted with high levels of formaldehyde. The Federal Emergency Management Agency urged residents of over 35,000 of the trailers to move out as soon as possible, especially families with kids, elderly folks, and those with chronic illnesses. Formaldehyde ... |
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| Topics: health, news, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Lotion in the Ocean
Sunscreen-slathered swimmers contributing to coral bleaching, says study |
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13 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:37 PM on 13 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Up to 6,000 tons of sunscreen wash off of ocean swimmers each year, posing a threat to up to 10 percent of global coral reefs, according to a new study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Four common sunscreen chemicals can awaken dormant viruses in coral-dwelling algae, with results of horror-movie proportions: the viruses replicate ... |
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| Topics: news, oceans, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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Polyvinyl Want an Attacker?
PVC is latest target of folks concerned about toxic toys |
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13 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:57 AM on 13 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Lead-toy furor is so last year; the source du jour of parental outrage is plastic polyvinyl chloride in toys. Numerous playthings -- balls, dolls, rubber duckies, tea sets, you name it -- contain PVC, which is made with carcinogen vinyl chloride, often softened with phthalates, and frequently contains lead and other heavy metals. While the Toy Industry Associa ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, news, parenting, toxics (all these topics) |
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Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack
Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill |
Glenn Hurowitz |
13 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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My Three Sins
On avoiding vinyl |
Umbra Fisk |
13 Feb 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Hi Umbra! I've been in denial about vinyl. Blue Vinyl, the movie, got me thinking, but unfortunately I space out and lie to myself. I even have bought those recently popular adult toys that advertise as being vinyl in large unavoidable proclamations on the front of the box and I still managed somehow to think, "It is probably a different process for toys." After reading your article about the LPs, I realized just how bad I have ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, shopping, toxics (all these topics) |
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Smoked
Federal appeals court strikes down pro-industry Bush mercury rule |
Frank O'Donnell |
08 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: mercury, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Cap 'n' Crunched
Bush's controversial mercury rule for power plants struck down by federal court |
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08 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:57 AM on 08 Feb 2008 Bad news for the Bush administration: A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a U.S. EPA rule that would have let coal-fired power plants trade the right to emit mercury, a neurotoxin that contaminates waterways, accumulates in fish, and has been linked to nerve and brain damage, particularly in children. Environmentalists and public health advocates, among oth ... |
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| Topics: litigation, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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LP, I Need Somebody
On vinyl records |
Umbra Fisk |
04 Feb 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Umbra, I know that PVC is bad, and vinyl records are PVC (right?), but is there any harm in keeping the records I already have, or should I get rid of them? And if so, what's the best way to do so? I've recently been trying to phase out any "bad" plastics, including anything that leaches, and while I understand the danger of plastic leaching chemicals into a water bottle, is there anything all that bad about playing an old ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, music, toxics (all these topics) |
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Toxic as a Baby's Bottom
Lotioned-up babies have high phthalate levels, says study |
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04 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:58 AM on 04 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Ways to poison your kids: It's not just bottles, car seats, and toys anymore! Tots exposed to baby cosmetics -- lotions, shampoos, powders, and the like -- have high levels of toxic phthalates in their wee bodies, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. Lotion exposure led to the highest phthalate concentrations in infant urine; use of baby ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, news, parenting, toxics (all these topics) |
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Now Eat Your Organic Brussels Sprouts
Organic produce reduces kids' exposure to pesticides, says study |
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01 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:58 PM on 01 Feb 2008 Pesticide-free produce leads to pesticide-free kids, says a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. Young research subjects who ate conventional produce were found to have organophosphate residue in their bodily fluids, while kids who ate organic produce did not. Will wonders never cease. source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer see also, in Gristm ... |
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| Topics: food, news, organic food, parenting, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Greenest of Chem All
California hopes to spur development of less-toxic chemicals |
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31 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:10 AM on 31 Jan 2008 California officials are aiming to spur development of less-toxic chemicals as safer alternatives to widely used toxics and will today unveil their proposals to kick-start the "green chem" revolution. One idea that's not included on the list of over 800 proposals is additional bans or restrictions on the use of toxic chemicals. Instead, ideas range from grants for R&a ... |
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| Topics: California, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Pesticide-free produce, pesticide-free kids
Organic food reduces organophosphate exposure in children |
Clark Williams-Derry |
31 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, health, organic food, toxics (all these topics) |
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Use the Force: Lukewarm
Hot liquid increases toxic leaching from plastic bottles, says study |
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30 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:07 PM on 30 Jan 2008 Contact with hot liquid causes a huge spike in the amount of toxic chemical bisphenol A leaching out of plastic bottles, says new research that's bad news for baby-bottle-sterilizing parents and hot-liquid-drinking hikers. Filling bottles with boiling water boosted rates of BPA ooze by up to 55 times more than room-temperature water did, according to the study published ... |
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| Topics: news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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Fish tales
NYT satire gives candidates' alleged responses to the fish 'n' mercury issue |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
27 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: elections, fishing, funnies, health, mercury, oceans, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics) |
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Toxic tuna
The mercury problem isn't contained to New York City's sushi restaurants and markets |
Andrew Sharpless |
25 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, food, mercury, New York City, toxics (all these topics) |
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The best defense is a good offense
Got any ideas for a better Toxic Release Inventory system? |
JMG |
17 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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