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L.A. Confidential		18 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
L.A. Confidential Environmental injustice appears to be alive and well in Los Angeles County, according to a study released today by the University of California at Los Angeles, which found that neighborhoods near major pollution sources are disproportionately low-income and Latino. Latinos make up 44 percent of the county population but 60 perce ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution The U.S. should take a cue from nature in its fight against terrorism	Seth Zuckerman	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
Talk about unimaginative. After the radically unconventional attacks on Sept. 11, the United States government strikes back in the most predictable way possible, by bombing Afghanistan from the air. Instead of studying an obsolete military playbook to plan the U.S. response, we might turn to the steady principles of ecology: After all, organisms have been living with eac ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, food and agriculture, toxics, United States, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Benzene Wring		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Benzene Wring A five-year study by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission found that two chemical companies, Marathon Ashland Petroleum and BP Chemical, have been releasing unacceptable amounts of benzene into the air around Texas City, 60 miles southeast of Houston. The levels of benzene, which is a known carcinogen, were three to six times higher than those permit ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, state politics, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Twenty-first Century Fox		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Twenty-first Century Fox More than 30 tons of toxic PCBs will be dredged from 19 miles of Wisconsin's Fox River if a cleanup plan announced yesterday wins public support. To atone for decades of dumping the toxins, a consortium of seven paper companies would pick up the $308 million price tag for the cleanup of the Fox, which is the leading ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Golly G.E.		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Golly G.E. Environmental groups and officials in New York state are concerned that General Electric may be making headway in its campaign to scuttle a federal plan forcing it to dredge the Hudson River for pollution. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced in August that she would proceed with a $500 million, Clinton-era plan to order G.E. to remove ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Hudson River, New York, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Wading to Exhale		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Wading to Exhale In a heretofore undocumented ecological process, the Great Lakes are purifying themselves by "exhaling" decades-old toxic chemicals, according to a study released on Friday by the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network. Lake Ontario alone released nearly two tons of now-banned PCBs between 1992 and 1996; together, the five lakes eliminated 10 tons of PCBs and close to four tons of the pesticide Dieldren, al ...
Topics: Great Lakes, toxics (all these topics)

Hip, Hip, EPA!		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Hip, Hip, EPA! In its largest enforcement action ever in a pesticides case, the U.S. EPA is seeking $3.7 million in penalties from a Memphis, Tenn.-based pesticide manufacturer for using chemicals from unapproved foreign manufacturers. The agency says that the Micro Flo Company imported thousands of drums of insecticide ingredients from 1996 to 1999 under the pretense that they were from an approved ma ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk		14 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk The smoke and grit in the air in New York City that came from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers pose only a small health risk, U.S. EPA officials and some doctors said yesterday. They equated the danger to a smoggy day in the city, when people with already-weakened immune systems should be especially cautious. Other independent health experts were gloom ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk		13 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk The enormous cloud of smoke and grit that spread from the collapsing World Trade Center towers on Tuesday could lead to attacks of asthma, emphysema, and other lung diseases, even a day or two after people were exposed, doctors said yesterday. Aside from the smoke, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said the biggest environmental concern right now was asbe ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Come Shell or High Water		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Come Shell or High Water The best way to rid the Great Lakes region of invasive zebra mussels may be to zap them with radio waves, Purdue University researchers told the American Chemical Society at its meeting in Chicago yesterday. The fast-breeding zebra mussels, which were brought to the U.S. in the ballast water of cargo ships, are threatening native aquatic life and clogging pipes at water purification and power plants. The Purdue ...
Topics: Great Lakes, toxics (all these topics)

In the Drink		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
In the Drink The gasoline additive MTBE, a known carcinogen, has already leaked into 48 public wells that provide water to hundreds of thousands of Californians, according to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis of state data. The additive is leaking from 1,189 underground storage tanks within 1,000 feet of public wells or drinking water aquifers, threatening the water supplies of millions in the state. That's not the ful ...
Topics: California, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Making Arsenics of Themselves		24 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Making Arsenics of Themselves A new study released yesterday by an advisory panel to the U.S. EPA undercuts one of the Bush administration's main reasons for revoking a tougher standard for arsenic levels in drinking water. When EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman rejected the standard, she said the Clinton administration hadn't adequately considered costs when arriving at the standard. But the panel's report found that, to th ...
Topics: politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Getting Their Goats		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Getting Their Goats The busiest ski resort in the U.S. is using goats instead of herbicides to get rid of weeds on its slopes. After the goats eat their fill, the Vail resort in Colorado is seeding the areas with native plants to fight off alien weeds. The goats are owned by Lani Lamming, who rents them out for $1 per day per goat, plus the cost of shipping. Lamming's company, Ewe4ic Ecological Services, has been in business for four y ...
Topics: green living, toxics (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)

Spell 'Pig' Backwards and Say 'Funny'		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Spell 'Pig' Backwards and Say 'Funny' In a pioneering study examining the exposure of urban and suburban children to household pesticides, all but one of 96 Seattle-area preschool children were found to have trace levels of pesticide in their urine, according to researchers at the University of Washington. The study found that "children whose families reported pesticide use in their gardens had significantly higher [chemical] concentr ...
Topics: Seattle, toxics (all these topics)

At Whit's End		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
At Whit's End U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman now thinks her decision to revoke a Clinton administration rule to reduce arsenic in drinking water was a bone-headed move. She told USA Today that her decision wasn't bad policy, but bad politics: "Politically, if I'd been smart, I would've never changed it. ... I would've let the courts decide. We were going to be sued anyway by the West ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (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)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, 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)

Don't Touch That Fish With a 10-foot Pole		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Touch That Fish With a 10-foot Pole Mercury was discovered in Columbia River fish in Washington state more than a decade ago, but the state hasn't yet posted signs to warn anglers about the dangers of eating mercury-tainted fish. One Health Department official said the major reason for not posting signs was that they would cost too much. Meanwhile, a state government website urges folks visiting Lake ...
Topics: Columbia River, marine life, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Closer-to-Home Toxic Hot Spots	Suzy Becker	30 Jul 2001	Ha.

Topics: toxics (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (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)

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