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Oil Dispersants Make Spills 52 Times More Toxic, Researchers Say
While oil spills can cause severe environmental damage to the organisms living in the affected waters, the consequences of using oil dispersants to rectify the spill can make the situation even worse, according to a ...
Nalco’s Corexit Dispersant Makes Oil 52 Times More Toxic
LiveScience | Nov 30, 2012 by Douglas Main For microscopic animals living in the Gulf, even worse than the toxic oil released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster may be the very oil dispersants used to clean it up, a … Continue reading →
Cancer-Causing Flame Retardants Remain in Homes Years After Being Banned
Chemicals designed to slow household fires continue to be found in worrying quantities in US homes, long after some of them have been banned because of suspected links to cancer and other conditions. The most controversial chemicals ...
Is Your Tatoo Making You Sick?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation after new research turned up troubling findings about toxic chemicals in tattoo ink. Recently published studies have found that the inks can contain a host of ...
Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ – Published in Federal Gov’t Journal
Harvard University researchers’ review of fluoride/brain studies concludes “our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment.” It was published online July 20 in Environmental Health Perspectives, a US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ ...
Environmental Toxins Linked To Heart Disease.
Can living in a wealthy industrialized country increase your chance of getting heart disease? The answer is yes. Diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure are sited as the most common reasons. However ...
Free the Air
“Passport to the Total State” by Wendy McElroy A passport is where the security theater begins. Indeed, without a passport those who wish to fly or cross a border are not “allowed” to be scanned, searched, interrogated, or undergo a plethora of other indignities imposed by uniformed thugs. America and the world were not always this way. “Environmental Protection Is a Consumption Good” by Isaac M. Morehouse If you are lost in the woods on the brink of starvation, you are less likely to look at a frog and think, “I hope that species of frog survives.” “Obama Blinks” by ... Related posts:
Incompetence Sets A Precedent – GE Alfalfa
We know that the USDA deregulated GE alfalfa and it’s clear that environment, health and the Constitution play no role at all in ushering in genetically modified crops. Rather, each new step forward for Monsanto ...
Hush Money For Vaccine-Autism While Still Denying Link
Last month, a study published by Pace Environmental Law Review revealed that while the government continues its rigid no vaccine-autism link stance, its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has quietly paid families for autism injuries for ...
Ban on Corexit Approved by Louisiana Senate Environmental Quality Committee
politics.gather.com | Jun 1, 2011 by Donald Pennington In response to the volume of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last April 19th, 2010, oil company officials and federal authorities laced the Gulf waters … Continue reading →
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