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It May Be the Poisons in the Air You Breathe | | | Community Environmental Policing: Assessing New Strategies of Public Participation in Environmental Regulation | | | Dioxins, PCBs in Human Tissue, Fish, Meat, and Wildlife from India | | | Birds of Prey; Conoco, Condea Vista and PPG Feeding off of Mossville and Calcasieu Parish | | | Perchlorate Chemistry, Use, and Health Effects Fact Sheet | | | More » |
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| Tar Sands Refineries: US Communities at Risk
by Forest Ethics
September 19th, 2012
Communities living next to tar sands refineries suffer from more intense sulfur dioxide pollution because of the extremely high sulfur content of tar sands refinery feed stocks, according to a new report by ForestEthics, an environmental organization. Sulfur dioxide pollution is associated with a wide variety of human health problems, including asthma and heart disease. |
| Lay, Community and Worker 'Epidemiology': An Integrating Strand in Participatory Research
by Andrew Watterson
July 10th, 2006
Effective public health should be based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) principles of ‘upstream’ health interventions to prevent the development of avoidable diseases, rather
than focus on ‘downstream’ medical interventions to treat preventable diseases. The achievement of such an approach should therefore rest on decision-making underpinned by the precautionary principle. |
| PVC -- The Poison Plastic: Useful links
December 7th, 2005
Microsoft, along with Kaiser Permanente, Crabtree and Evelyn, and others,announced they have joined the fast-growing ranks of major corporations demonstrating concern about the environmental health impacts of their products or packaging by phasing out PVC plastic (polyvinyl chloride or vinyl). |
| Pandian Chemicals: What the Government Won't Tell You
Pandian Chemicals proposes to manufacture Ammonium Perchlorate, a highly explosive chemical used as an ingredient in solid rocket fuel. Besides exposing local comm unities and workers to the hazards of an explosion, the company’s product also poses a serious threat of contamination of groundwater with perchlorates. |
| Perchlorate Chemistry, Use, and Health Effects Fact Sheet
Ammonium perchlorate (NH4ClO4) is an inorganic chemical widely used as an oxidizer in solid propellants for rockets, missiles and fireworks. Perchlorate is thus found in surface and ground waters around military operations, defense contracting or manufacturing facilities. Perchlorate is highly mobile in water and can persist for many decades under typical ground and surface water conditions. |
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