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Toxic Chemicals Issues
Toxic Site Flooding: Irene’s Hidden Disaster Potential
There is a real potential for the flooding from Hurricane Irene to cause the chemicals sequestered in ponds and other open catchments in its path to spill over into nearby rivers, lakes and other waterways -- like this one, in Raritan, New Jersey. Read More...
Genetically Modified Crops and Unintended Consequences
Over 75 per cent of all processed foods in the U.S. contain at least one genetically engineered ingredient, according to the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Over 90 per cent of all the soybeans, corn, cotton and sugar beets planted in the U.S. are grown from genetically modified seeds. Although genetic modification of our food looks... Read More...
Still Fossil-Fueled, but Cleaner, Greener, Nonetheless
How many of New York's larger buildings are responding to the City's demand that they stop burning the highly polluting No. 6 oil is a great hands on demonstration of how large buildings can come clean and make money doing it. Read More...
Do You Know Where Your Children Play?
This straightforward article in Fox News lays out in startling clarity the dangerous chemicals that children are exposed to on the playing fields of America. Read More...
The Perils of Plastic
There are now FIVE gigantic gyres of plastic trash rotating slowly and poisonously in our oceans, growing daily, possibly for centuries to come. This is a major call for intense recycling, as well as changing to biodegradable materials -- of which plastics could be one. Read More...
Our Poisons, Our Children, Ourselves
No BPA? Great! But look what else is being put into the things we and our children drink from and touch! The way our toxic chemicals law is written, it's an arsenal of poisons that the chemical industry is free to inflict on us unless a cash-strapped EPA finds otherwise. Read More...
Everything that Burning Coal Leaves Behind
This short article by an environmental toxicologist from Alaska spells out just what the environmental and health costs of burning coal add up to. Read More...