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Solutia-ns		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ...
Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Doe, Oh Dear!		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Doe, Oh Dear! In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the n ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Missouri, pollution and waste, toxics, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Hot to Rot?		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Hot to Rot? The U.S. EPA announced this week a two-year phase out of an arsenic-based preservative used to pressure-treat lumber against rot and insect damage. The treated wood is popular for use in fences, decks, and playground equipment, and its manufacturers and vendors -- including Home Depot and other building-supply stores -- currently face a class-action suit for an alleged failure to adequately warn ...
Topics: business, green living, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Not-so-secret Agent		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Not-so-secret Agent Four decades after the U.S. started using Agent Orange in Vietnam, the two countries will begin working together to assess the effects of the toxic chemical on human health and the environment. Agent Orange is a defoliant that contains TCDD, the most dangerous form of dioxin, which causes cancer, immune system malfunction, and birth defects. The U.S. sprayed millions of gallo ...
Topics: Asia, health, toxics, United States, US Military, Vietnam (all these topics)

Chesa-piqued		11 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Chesa-piqued Saying that chemical contamination in the city's water supply led to miscarriages and infant deaths, 25 women have sued Chesapeake, Va., and almost 170 more plan to do so. According to a growing number of studies, the chlorine commonly used to purify drinking water can cause birth defects and miscarriages when it mixes with organic matter, su ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Rhode Island Lead		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Rhode Island Lead A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island paved the way for a landmark lawsuit earlier this week when he gave state Attorney Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) permission to sue manufacturers of lead-based paint. The paint industry had attempted to derail the trial by calling for every one of an estimated 300,000 owners of ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

When Methanol's Said and Done		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
When Methanol's Said and Done In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California's ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. The state began phasing out the chemical compound because of its apparent threat to water quality and human health, b ...
Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

H-2-Oh-boy!		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
H-2-Oh-boy! Utility companies can be sued for violating safe drinking water standards, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided on Monday. The decision is significant because it allows thousands of victims of polluted water to seek financial compensation from the private and public utilities that pipe tap water into homes; in the past, victims mos ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Oh, Baby! A review of Having Faith	Jonna Higgins-Freese	30 Jan 2002	Arts and Minds
I am an environmental activist, and for almost a year, my husband and I have struggled to understand how our environmental commitments bear on our decision about whether to have children. So when I picked up Sandra Steingraber's new book Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood,, I was immediately drawn in by the opening sentence: "Every woman who becomes pregnant brings to the experience her various identitie ...
Topics: books, parenting, population, toxics (all these topics)

Girls Will Be Boys		30 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Girls Will Be Boys Environmental toxins are disrupting human biology at the most basic level: reproduction. That was the conclusion of researchers at Michigan State University, who found that men with higher levels of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were more like to father boys than girls. PCBs are known to cause sex-related defects in animals (although the researchers were quick to explain that boys ar ...
Topics: Great Lakes, health, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Peli-can!		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Peli-can! Good news from the Pelican State: Brown pelicans may be removed from the endangered species list in Louisiana following a highly successful reintroduction program. By the middle of the 20th century, the birds had disappeared from their namesake state (and were almost wiped out throughout the nation) due to exposure to the pesticide DDT, which caused them to lay eggs with shells too thin to protect de ...
Topics: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Live Tree or Die		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Live Tree or Die In what will be one of the largest nonprofit land purchases in New England history, the federal and New Hampshire governments, the Trust for Public Land, and the Nature Conservancy are poised to buy 171,500 acres of land along the New Hampshire-Canada border from the International ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, logging, Nature Conservancy, New England, New Hampshire, Northeast, toxics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Taps		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Drinking chlorinated tap water puts pregnant women at a higher risk for miscarrying or bearing children with birth defects, according to a new study by two environmental organizations. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group studied water quality data from thousands of water utilities before publishing their findings yesterday. Chlorine is use ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

A Bad Case of Gas		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Bad Case of Gas The Montreal Protocol to heal the ozone hole is the poster child of successful environmental treaties; the general consensus is that as the treaty's targets are met, the ozone hole will disappear, and the earth will be protected from the harmful ultraviolet radiation that leaks through. Not so fast, says the Environmental Invest ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, England, Environmental Investigation Agency, ozone, toxics, Washington DC (all these topics)

Anniston Get Your Gun		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Unhealthy Skepticism On Bjorn Lomborg and environmental hazards to human health	Devra Davis	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
You know what they say about people who become statisticians? They lacked the personality to become accountants. Whatever their personalities may be, those who spend their lives sorting through reams of numbers often lose sight of what those numbers mean and represent. The Skeptical Environmentalist is a big and infuriating book, written by a statistician and self-described former envir ...
Topics: books, health, toxics (all these topics)

Litter Bugs Them		10 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Litter Bugs Them Most Hong Kong residents want their government to do a better job tackling environmental problems, according to a survey released over the weekend by Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank. More than 60 percent of the 960 respondents said issues such as pesticides in foods, contaminated seafood, and air and water pollution should be a top priority of the government. Fifty- ...
Topics: air pollution, China, Hong Kong, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

The Dredge Great-Scott Decision		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
The Dredge Great-Scott Decision U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said yesterday that her agency would order General Electric to spend almost $500 million to dredge PCBs from the upper Hudson River. In doing so, Whitman disregarded a multi-million-dollar P.R. campaign by the giant company claiming that dredging would not improve the river's health. Enviros, who had feare ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Sprayer in Schools		03 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Sprayer in Schools Republicans on a congressional conference committee killed legislation on Friday that sought to protect public school students and staff from pesticides. The School Environment Protection Act would have required schools to notify parents when pesticides were being sprayed, and directed states to develop pest-management plans that considered alternatives to toxic sprays. Al ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Us Which is the lesser of two evils -- malaria or DDT? The former kills a million people per year in Africa, many of them infants and children; the latter is the most effective weapon against the virulent disease, but is lethal to fish and wildlife, and thought to be hazardous to humans as well. Two years ago, South Africa opted to fight malaria with DDT -- a decision one government official c ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Speaking Ingest		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Speaking Ingest The Bush administration has promised the pesticide industry that it will overturn a Clinton-era policy that prohibited using information obtained from industry studies on human subjects to determine pesticide limits. Under the new policy, which hasn't yet been officially announced, the U.S. EPA would be able to set limits based on data from tests in which paid volunteers ingest small amounts of pesticides, ...
Topics: health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

I Wanna Be Like Myco		26 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
I Wanna Be Like Myco They're good in salads, lovely with pasta ... and great for the earth? The humble mushroom could help clean up everything from oil spills to pesticides, thanks to a new technology called mycoremediation. Mushroom expert Paul Stamets pioneered the technology against the bacteria E. coli and then partnered with scientists at the Pacific Northwest Na ...
Topics: environmental restoration, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Nema-toads		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Nema-toads A federal appeals court upheld a Vermont law last week requiring manufacturers to label items that contain mercury. The 1998 law, the first of its kind in the United States, was challenged by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association on behalf of companies that produce fluorescent light bulbs containing mercury. NEMA argued that labeling the products would be too expensive and that Vermont's sha ...
Topics: green living, recycling, toxics, Vermont (all these topics)

Planet Safe How the bear inside you could save the world	Elizabeth Sawin	12 Nov 2001	Global Citizen
"Sobs racked the body of a middle-aged man as he cradled the head of his baby, its dust-covered body dressed only in a blue diaper, lying beside the bodies of three other children, their colorful clothes layered with debris from their shattered homes." I held this sentence, from a Reuters report on the civilian casualties in Afghanistan, in my head all day long. By the time my girls were in bed ...
Topics: climate, energy, national security, toxics (all these topics)

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