As the cleanup of toxic chemicals along the Fox River prepares to pause for winter, the project is ahead of schedule - but the price tag has grown.
States the article at: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/62485172.html
The article states that the Fox River supplies Lake Michigan with 620 pounds per year of PCBs … the biggest source of PCBs to […]
See this plan at: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/epa-chemicals
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the USEPA would review the presence of DDT, toxaphene, chlordane. Aldrin, Dieldrin and the rest of the persistent organic pollutants we banned a quarter of a century ago? They are a major presence in our environment from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska. With the Lake […]
Concern over Great Lakes fish will remain even after current toxins fade:
States a article at: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090927/NEWS01/909270356/1002/NEWS
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New York’s advisories on consumption of Lake Ontario fish are based on chemicals that, for the most part, were banned decades ago and are increasingly rare in the
It goes on to inform us that “If current trends continue, officials […]
A very provocative article from BERLIN (Reuters) starts with” Cancer is a bigger killer in developing countries than tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS combined and a “tsunami” of the disease threatens to overwhelm the nations worst equipped to cope, experts said on Tuesday.
While only about 5 percent of global resources for cancer are spent in developing […]
The White House taskforce on oceans, including the Great Lakes is being reviewed in meetings around the nation. See an introduction and get the report here: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/18923
Its goal includes preservation and protection of the Great Lakes. However, it is silent on POPs contamination of our coastal bays by airborne foreign PCBs, the toxaphene in Lake […]
Endocrine disruption seems to be getting more news as birth defects in man and beast become more prevalent.
This overview: http://www.miller-mccune.com/science_environment/seeking-chemical-culprits-for-those-deformities-1483
details the magnitude and increasing nature of the number of problems and the number of people affected.
Why do we tolerate the continuing use of “banned” substanses that are known to be in the environment and proven […]
The news today is full of reports of the Inspector General’s findings of lagging in the clean up of the Great Lakes. See:
http://blog.taragana.com/n/inspector-general-report-faults-epa-for-delays-in-cleaning-up-toxic-sediments-in-great-lakes-169506/ for details.
The gist of the finding is that $475,000,000 is not nearly enough. $2,250,000,000 is needed and the EPA must be held accountable for results. EPA accountability is defined as dollars effectively […]
Researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a joint institute of Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have fouhd a stong association between Lindane (Gamma Hexacloocyclohexane) postmortem brain concentraton and Parkinson’s disease.
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/66/7/870
Lindane is the most volatile of all persistent organic pesticides (POPs) and is […]
A researcher studying roadkilled deer in Montana is finding sexual anomalies in males in an increasing rate:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/science_environment/divining-the-secret-of-deformed-roadkill-1441
Gulls and terns exhibited these problems decades ago, and they were later found in polar bears. Will it have to be rampant in humans before a global ban of persistent organic ptsticides and PCBs is pursued?
