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Archive for April, 2009

PBS Killer Whale Special Misses the POPs Boat

Posted by Mel on April 23rd, 2009

The film does a great job of explaining the global loss of Killer whales. I am very sensitive to this as in the area of my Arctic travels, the north end of Baffin Island, they have been gone for years. In the past, they cruised the area to feast on seal, narwhal pups, and beluga […]

Poisoned Waters: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Posted by Mel on April 22nd, 2009

Poisoned waters certainly offered some straight talk and honesty at times. Unfortunately it was also devious and downright ugly in its treatment of science at other times. Its worst omission was the failure to recognize that PCBs and other banned endocrine disrupting pesticides are a global environmental problem that cannot be controlled by local actions […]

Global Banning of Lindane is not the Minor Problem

Posted by Mel on April 9th, 2009

Environmental groups are urging President Obama to influnce the UNEP group to ban Lindane:
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/08/08greenwire-groups-urging-obama-admin-to-support-intl-lind-10469.html
Even though the U.S. has not ratified the Stockholm Convention, it is urged that we support the global banning of Lindane, one of the dirty dozen pesticides that was not “banned” by the 2001 agreement.
I would hope that President Obama, and the […]