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Canada to List Key Chemical in Common Plastics as Toxic

April 17, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

A report in the New York Times cites an anonymous Canadian government source as saying Canada will soon declare bisphenol-a (BPA), a chemical found in some plastics, toxic. The move is prompted by concerns over observed effects on animals, potential environmental contamination, and fears of public health impact in the human population.

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Pharmaceuticals Found in Drinking Water of 24 Major Metropolitan Areas in US

March 10, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

A new study has found that selective seratonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI, or anti-depressants), sex-hormones, painkillers and anti-biotics in significant quantities in the drinking water of 24 out of 28 major metropolitan areas in the United States. Though the term “trace amounts” appears multiple times in today’s reporting of the findings, that term does not necessarily speak to quantity.

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Overcoming Acrimony, Bali Conference Brings Concessions, Start of a ‘Roadmap’

December 16, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

The UN climate change policy conference on the Indonesian island of Bali has ended in dramatic fashion, as EU and US delegates found themselves in a war of words over differences in how to reach long-term reductions in “heat-trapping gases” emitted by human societies, essentially: carbon emissions.

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The Time is Now, an Action Plan for Global Emissions Reduction

November 18, 2007 :: Joseph Eugene Robertson :: No Comment Yet

Due to the science we already have, the laws we have to govern our own activity and to force government to act for the public health, we face the real possibility of being forced, in American courts, in the future, to pay for damage done to the most affected populations in other parts of the world, as a result of inaction by our government. And if not in court, then as a matter of the de facto urgencies of international political stability.

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Dirty Air Tied to Economic Growth

September 19, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet

The world is facing a major environmental crisis, with multiple serious battles to fight on various fronts, if we are to avert crippling long-term environmental degradation. One fundamental problem is that post-industrial societies have not sufficiently divorced their economic activity from extreme contaminants like carbon-based fuels, so that special cases of exorbitant economic growth continue to bring with them high levels of particulate air pollution.

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