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Both the Environmental
Protection Agency and the National Academy of Sciences
have voiced concern about the dangers that pesticides
pose to children. A California law now
gives you the right to be notified before your childs
school uses a pesticide.
Protect your childs
health by calling your school today to request pesticide
notification. |
Professor
Dominique Belpomme, a medical
oncologist from the University of Paris, has new research
showing that environmental exposures to pesticides and other
contaminants are now more significant as a cause of cancer
...Continue
A potentially harmful
smog can form inside homes through reactions between
air-fresheners and ozone, say researchers at the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The reactions generate
formaldehyde, classed as a probable carcinogen...Continue
Many
U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above
government assessed acceptable levels. Chemical
Trespass: makes public for the first time an analysis
of pesticide-related data collected by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention...Continue
Fifteen
high-school students in Bronx, NY were treated on April 20
after exposure to a cloud of herbicide that parks employees
were spraying on grass nearby, according to New
York Newsday. Fire department officials say the
pesticide drifted through a window into a room the students
were occupying. Most of the students were treated on the
scene, however one...Continue
Controlling pests Without
the use of Pesticides...Continue
Mother
and Children, Hurt By Widely Used Lawn Care Pesticides, Issue Holiday Wish to Stop the Poisoning.
This
is a story of a trusting consumer, Brenda Jones, who explains
that she hired a lawn care service, TRUGREEN ChemLawn, only to
find that the pesticides being used were poisonous...Continue
Lawn
Pesticide Poisoning:
A Timeline of Ms Jones's Story...Continue
The Observer
suggested a possible link between the exposure of mothers
during pregnancy to the pesticide Benlate (active ingredient
benomyl) manufactured by DuPont and the development of
microphthalmia and anophthalmia, conditions where children
are born either with poorly developed eyes or without eyes...Continue
Recent independent
research indicates that glyphosate i.e. Roundup may not be as safe as
previously thought...Continue
A
recent case-controlled study (2003) by Greenlee et al
published in Epidemiology showed that infertile women who live
near U.S. farmlands were 27 times more likely to have mixed or
applied herbicides and 3.3 times more likely to have used
fungicides within two years of conceiving than women who were
fertile...Continue
Contaminated without
Consent:
Why our exposure to chemicals in air, food
and water violates human rights...Continue
A subsidiary of Dow
Chemical Co. will pay a $2 million fine for making illegal
safety claims in advertising of its pesticides, state
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Monday...Continue
An ambitious approach
in tackling pesticide hazards is needed...Continue
While deaths and
illness from pesticides remain at an all-time high, the
urgency of taking action has been delayed over different
interpretations on patents and data protection...Continue
A new report on pesticide problems
and regulatory concerns in Costa Rica, Tanzania
and Vietnam recommends steps towards
improved control and reduction of pesticide use...Continue
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman announced on
October 31 that the arsenic standard in drinking water will be
10 parts per billion (ppb). "Throughout this process, I
have made it clear that EPA intends to strengthen the standard
for arsenic by...Continue
Four
university scientists, three from the U.S. and one from
Scotland, experienced a backlash, either personally or
professionally, after their research showed results that could
harm the well-invested biotechnology industry...Continue
Farmworker
groups filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Environmental
Protection Agency for approving the reregistration of two
organophosphate pesticides, azinphos-methyl (AZM) and phosmet,
that they say continue to poison workers, their children,
communities and the environment...Continue
Conservation
and pesticide-watchdog groups filed a
lawsuit
on January 15 to stop the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) from giving illegal special access to a group of
chemical corporations. Documents obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act and other sources reveal that the corporate
insider group has met regularly with EPA officials in secret
and has urged EPA to...Continue
Scientists at Michigan
State University have found an elusive microbe whose world-class
pickiness is a key to one of the most nagging concerns in the
cleanup of a common type of environmental toxin...Continue
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Registration of a
chemical does NOT imply that the chemical is safe. In fact, Nearly
100,000 accidental pesticide exposures are reported to poison
control centers each year. Many of these exposures involve
children, providing clear evidence that current efforts to
protect children are inadequate. |
Elevated
Cancer In Dogs Exposed To Lawn Chemicals,
American Veterinary Medical Association Warns...Continue
Stealth Poisons - New
disclosures in a report from Pesticide Action Network
UK reveal pesticides everywhere. For the first time,
a years official reports of pesticides in our food,
water, and the environment have been brought together...Continue
Study Finds Over
One-Quarter of U.S. School Districts Adopt Plans to Restrict
Children's Exposure to Pesticides...Continue
Hospitals
have a special obligation to demonstrate leadership in
instituting effective and safer pest management in keeping
with the medical profession's basic tenet of "first, do
no harm...Continue
The national
environmental group Beyond Pesticides today asked major
retailers to immediately pull off their store shelves tick and
flea repellents identified by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) as deadly. Last month, EPA struck a deal with
Hartz Mountain Corporation to stop shipping and re-label two
repellent products for which EPA has received thousands of
reports detailing illness and death in kittens and cats...Continue
Ethyl carbamate is used as an
intermediate in the synthesis of a number of chemicals.
Acute (short-term) exposure of humans to high levels of
ethyl carbamate may result in injury to the kidneys and
liver and induce vomiting, coma, or hemorrhages...Continue
Study
Published Today in Environmental Health Perspectives Finds
Dramatically Lower Sperm Concentration, Motility in Men Living
in Semi-Rural, Agricultural Areas...Continue
Prince Edward Island officials are investigating
whether the province's potato industry is killing its fish...Continue
Every parent has gained
a right to know of pesticide application to which their
children may be exposed if they are enrolled in the Los
Angeles Unified School District...Continue
Proposed
changes in Farm Bill conservation program could hurt farmers,
environmental cleanup...Continue
Belgium said on Tuesday it had found the same cancer-causing
chemicals in pig feed that it had found in chicken feed made
by a local compounder, raising fears of another dioxin-type
scandal...Continue
Will soldiers someday wear vests containing microbes that
signal contact with biological weapons? Could un-manned
submarines or underwater sensing devices run on
microbe-power?...Continue
Deep below the surface of the Beverhead Mountains of Idaho, a
research team led by Derek Lovley, head of the microbiology
department at the University of Massachusetts, and Francis H.
Chappelle of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has found an
unusual community of microoganisms that may hold the key to
understanding how life could survive on Mars...Continue
For centuries, scientists have
wondered why gold is found in two forms as a solid in
deposits close to the Earths crust, and in solution, often
far removed from gold-ore deposits. A fairly simple lab
experiment conducted at the University of Massachusetts may
lead to an understanding of how the precious metal came to be
available...Continue
"Confront is totally contradictory to all of our goals
for recycling, resource conservation and sustainability,"
said...Continue
Traces of a herbicide toxic to
garden vegetables has been found in compost in three states, a
discovery that worried the lawn waste recycling industry...Continue
"Drought is a chronic
concern in Canada, but rarely has it been as serious or
extensive as in 2001," said the report of the Top 10
Canadian weather stories...Continue
Beat the
clock: Plants and animals adapt to winter...Continue
Global warming is arguably the
biggest environmental problem that we face in the 21st
century...Continue
With the assistance of a grant from the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Management (DEM), a
multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of
Massachusetts is testing ways to use common pond plants to
stabilize and decontaminate seriously polluted areas of the
historic Blackstone River Watershed. Extending from south
central Massachusetts to Pawtucket, R.I...Continue
Human activity has affected Earth's surface temperature during
the last 130 years, according to a study published this month
by the Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Robert K. Kaufmann
of Boston University's Center for Energy and Environmental
Studies and Dr. David I. Stern of the Australian National
University's Centre for Resource and Environmental Study...Continue
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