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Toxic Chemicals Issues
Solar Power Makes 30-Year Superfund Site Cleanup Possible
It's going to take 30 years of constant operation instead of 200 to reclaim a Superfund site in Davis, CA, so it's a good thing that the cleanup system will be powered by solar-generated electricity. As usual, the people who created all the pollution (Frontier Fertilizer) have left the site, as the taxpayers clean... Read More...
The Way We Were: Spraying Agent Orange on Farms in the 60’s
This scary story in the Toronto Star reminds us how foolishly we sprayed toxic chemicals on ourselves in the 1960's, and the price we are still paying for that time. With the EPA and chemical regulation under attack again, this is a cautionary tale to remind us that there is no excuse for ignorance... Read More...
Why is the EPA Sitting on Its Ash?
Even as huge piles and vast ponds of accumulated coal ash dot the landscape, the EPA has been slow to designate coal ash as hazardous material, and the administration isn't helping. Read More...
Bad Times Don’t Stop People Buying Bottled Water
The bottles that bottled water come in litter the environment by the billions, yet even in declining economies, emerging markets open for them because they represent clean drinking water. Then, of course, there are the rest of us, who persist in drinking water in disposable plastic bottles. Read More...
Farmers Rediscover the Value of Manure
With the runoff from both commercial fertilizers and manure from commercial farms and feedlots poisoning our waterways, lakes and the Caribbean, a solution is in sight. The rising price of the fertilizer is beginning to return farmers to use composted manure as fertilizer again. Read More...
Connecting the Dots: Poverty, Illness and Toxic Operations in Poor Neighborhoods
The poor are always with us, and their neighborhoods contain more than their fair share of soil contaminated by dumping, hazardous waste businesses, heavy truck traffic, and chemically contaminated drinking water. The EPA has awarded a grant to create a database for Camden, New Jersey, to connect the dots between illness and chemical exposure. Read More...
Clean Air Act Benefits Outweight Costs 4 To 1
The EPA has just completed a study of the effects of twenty years of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 — with startling results. It concludes that the benefits of limiting the release of toxic gases and chemicals into the air are four times the costs of its enforcement. This estimate represents... Read More...