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At least 1,600 pet deaths related to spot on treatments with pyrethroids were reported to the EPA over the last five years, according to an analysis of EPA pesticide incident exposure data by the Center for Public Integrity.
That is about double the number of reported fatalities tied to similar treatments without pyrethroids, such as Frontline and Advantage — although these products also have critics. Pets and pesticides: Let’s be careful out there. Published by Center for Public Integrity. 16 December 2008.
Environmental factors are key drivers in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, according to a comprehensive review of how the environment affects aging.
Relevant environmental influences include common dietary patterns, toxic chemical exposures, inadequate exercise, socio-economic stress and other factors. These influences can begin in the womb and continue throughout life, setting the stage for the later development of neurodegenerative as well as other chronic diseases. Environmental threats to healthy aging. Published by Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. 28 October 2008.
Hundreds of companies located in the U.S. produce or import hundreds of chemicals designated as dangerous by the European Union.
These chemicals are being produced in the U.S. in large amounts and at many different sites in 37 states. Across the Pond. Published by Environmental Defense. 1 October 2008.
Laboratory tests reveal adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products.
Studies link these chemicals to potential health effects including cancer and hormone disruption. Teen girls' body burden of hormone-altering cosmetics chemicals. Published by Environmental Working Group. 25 September 2008.
It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry.
Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, for their research on bisphenol A. What the chemical industry doesn't want you to know. Published by Environmental Working Group. 16 September 2008.
New measurements reveal that toddlers and preschoolers typically had 3 times as much toxic flame retardants in their blood as their mothers.
In total 11 different flame retardants were found in these children, and 86 percent of the time the chemicals were present at higher levels in the children than their mothers. Fire Retardants in Toddlers and Their Mothers. Published by Environmental Working Group. 4 September 2008.
Pyrethrins, extracted from the chrysanthemum plant, and their synthetic relatives, pyrethroids, have exploded in popularity over the last decade.
The number of reported human health problems, including severe reactions, attributed to pyrethrins and pyrethroids, increased by about 300 percent over that period. Perils of the new pesticides. Published by Center for Public Integrity. 1 August 2008.
Overall, several auto manufacturers showed improvement over last year’s findings, including Mazda, General Motors and Nissan.
General Motors, whose average vehicle ranking improved by 27%, showed the most improvement of the domestic automakers. Average child car seat scores improved by 28% overall, proving that toxic chemicals are not required for the manufacturing of child car seats and interior automobile components. 2nd annual guide to toxic chemicals in cars and children’s car seats. Published by Ecology Center of Michigan. 22 July 2008.
Regulators remain oblivious to the harmful effects of bisphenol A and need to act urgently to protect consumers.
despite firm scientific consensus about the health hazards of the chemical, European authorities are shirking their responsibilities and attempting to postpone any decision on whether this substance should require authorisation until 2013. Blissfully unaware of bisphenol A: Reasons why regulators should live up to their responsibilities. Published by Friends of the Earth Europe. 11 July 2008.
An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don't adequately protect skin from the sun's damaging rays.
Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena. Sunscreens. Published by Environmental Working Group. 2 July 2008.
Millions of U.S. workers will all benefit from the project of defeating global warming and transforming the United States into a green economy.
Constructing windfarms, retrofitting buildings, building and operating mass transit, installing solar all create jobs that are in the same areas of employment in which people work today. Job opportunities for the green economy. Published by Center for American Progress. 22 June 2008.
The plastics problem is growing in scale and complexity due to a collision of factors.
These include government neglect of endocrine disruption; explosive growth of the plastics industry; lack of labeling requirements; and near universal human exposure. Plastics that may be harmful to children and reproductive health. Published by Environment and Human Health, Inc. 18 June 2008.
There is no evidence that industry-touted replacements being rushed to market to replace a Teflon chemical are safer.
Instead, it appears that DuPont and other manufacturers are continuing a decades-long pattern of deception about the health risks of PFOA and related chemicals. Toxic chemicals in food packaging and Dupont's greenwashing. Published by Environmental Working Group. 10 June 2008.
Commonly used baby and children’s products, and upholstered household furniture contain dangerous levels of halogenated fire retardants.
56% of all infant carriers, 44% of all car seats, 40% of all strollers and 19% of all portable cribs were found to have high levels of halogenated fire retardants. Killer cribs. Published by Friends of the Earth. 21 May 2008.
A chemical used to make Teflon, food wrappers and dozens of other products may harm the immune system, liver and thyroid and cause higher cholesterol in children
The health effects observed in research in Ohio are strong indicators of health problems that might be caused by PFOA in average Americans. Early life exposure to chemicals in food packaging linked to adult obesity. Published by Environmental Working Group. 16 May 2008.
First synthesized nearly 120 years ago and now used ubiquitously in modern commerce, bisphenol A is headed toward phase-out.
A turning point was reached in April 2008, as federal authorities in Canada and the US both raised health concerns about the material. Major retailers have begun pulling it from market shelves, and even Nalgene has said it will end use of BPA in its water bottles. Bisphenol A Timeline: From Invention to Phase-Out. Published by Environmental Working Group. 24 April 2008.
Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought.
Melting of arctic sea ice and the Greenland Ice Sheet is severely accelerated, prompting concerns that both may be close to their 'tipping point'; the point where, because of climate change, natural systems may experience sudden, rapid and perhaps irreversible change. Arctic impact accelerates. Published by World Wildlife Fund - UK, United Kingdom. 24 April 2008.
The EPA is under siege from political pressure.
On numerous issues—ranging from mercury pollution to groundwater contamination to climate change—political appointees have edited scientific documents, manipulated scientific assessments, and generally sought to undermine the science behind dozens of EPA regulations. Interference at the EPA. Published by Union of Concerned Scientists. 24 April 2008.
The stakes in the debate over bisphenol A safety are exceedingly high—economically, politically and biologically.
The FDA’s safety standard remains conspicuously out of date. The public should not have to wait for years for unequivocal epidemiological evidence to determine the risks of this chemical. Battles over bisphenol A. Published by Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy. 20 April 2008.
Overwhelming evidence shows that exposures to natural and pharmaceutical estrogens are strong determinants of breast cancer risks.
Some industrial chemicals and pesticides, as well as a large number of chemicals used in consumer products, have estrogenic characteristics. Risk reduction will not be achievable without considering preventable causes, particularly exposure to chemicals. Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence. Published by ChemTrust, Health and Environment Alliance. 2 April 2008.
The American West is heating up more rapidly than the rest of the world, according to a new analysis of the most recent federal government temperature figures.
The average temperature rise in the Southwest's largest river basin was more than double the average global increase, likely spelling even more parched conditions. Warming in the West. Published by Natural Resources Defense Council. 28 March 2008.
In 2008, a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer is one in eight.
New science indicates that timing of exposure, mixtures of chemicals and dose interact with genes and lifestyle factors to increase breast cancer risk. State of the Evidence 2006: Breast Cancer and the Environment. Published by Breast Cancer Fund. 20 March 2008.
In 2006 alone, renewable energy and energy efficiency were responsible for $970 billion in industry revenues and 8.5 million jobs.
This number will grow exponentially if our nation commits itself in earnest to reducing carbon emissions and making economy-wide improvements in energy efficiency. Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities. Published by Center for American Progress. 14 March 2008.
Across the West, mining claims are encroaching on hundreds of sprawling cities, destination resorts, retirement communities and remote recreation retreats.
Since 2003, mining interests have staked 16,282 claims within five miles of cities and towns in twelve western states, for a total of 51,579 active mining claims within five miles of these communities as of January 2008. Mining claims threaten western cities and towns. Published by Environmental Working Group. 12 March 2008.
A survey of thirty-seven electronics products finds that even though no individual product can claim to be truly green, there are many innovations moving in the right direction.
Advances by different companies include toxics reductions, increased energy efficiency, longer lifecycles and better plans for recycling. What is a green electronics product? Published by Greenpeace International. 5 March 2008.
The Canadian government is failing to uphold its duty to clean up the Tar Sands.
Weak targets will allow Tar Sands greenhouse gas emissions to doubly by 2020. And toxic tailing ponds are seeping into the region's groundwater, as pollution rises in the Athabasca River. Canada’s Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth. Published by Environmental Defence Canada. 16 February 2008.
Bisphenol A leaches out of six major brands of popular baby bottles sold in the US and Canada.
Laboratory experiments with animals show that exposure to level of bisphenol A that leaches out of these bottles causes a range of adverse effects. Baby’s Toxic Bottle. Published by Center for Health, Environment & Justice. 8 February 2008.
For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states.
Reportedly, the study's release was blocked because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates. Great Lakes Danger Zones? Published by Center for Public Integrity. 8 February 2008.
In coming decades heatwaves in the Midwest are likely to become more frequent, longer, and hotter than cities in the region have experienced in the past.
Fire will increase in the west. Sea-level rise will be increasingly problematic along the Gulf Coast. Nutrient overload will increase the frequency and intensity of hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay. Regional impacts of climate change: Four case studies in the US. Published by Pew Center on Global Climate Change. 20 December 2007.
Many individual states release more greenhouse gas emissions than entire groups of developing countries.
Forty-two U.S. states individually emit more carbon dioxide than 50 developing countries combined, and three states individually emit more CO2 than 100 developing countries. Taking Responsibility. Published by National Environmental Trust. 19 December 2007.
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