Groups Urge a Moratorium on City Use of Artificial Turf
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/nyregion/29turf.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
The link between mercury and autism
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/the-link-between-mercury-and-autism-1302135.html
Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-epa29feb29,0,6191299.story
Should Public Health Officials Be Disqualified While "Experts" With
Corporate Ties Remain?
http://www.ewg.org/node/26073
February 28, 2008
New Material Is Capable Of Eliminating Pollutants By The Hydrocarbon
Industry
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226112755.htm
Parents, students, staff share health fears at Corona
http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/0228tr-corona0229.html
Rare skin condition means teenager is allergic to the 21st century
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/28/i-m-allergic-to-the-21st-century-89520-20334012/
Squiggly Fluorescent Bulbs can be Dangerous
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/health/16088317.html
The 13-year-old girl who is allergic to almost everything
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=520489&in_page_id=1799
February 27, 2008
Kids vaccine linked to fever, seizures
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/health/5576512.html
Study: Contaminant levels high in parks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_sc/park_contamination
Supreme Court Shields Medical Device Manufacturers from Consumer Lawsuits
http://www.naturalnews.com/022713.html
Eat Fruits -- Oh, Wait, Not Those Fruits
http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1134/news_detail.asp
The Smallest of Pollutants Are Linked to Outsize Health Risks
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/02/27/the-smallest-of-pollutants-are-linked-to-outsize-health-risks.html
District Fires Sick Librarian (MCS)
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6535828.html?industryid=47052
What makes this meal really organic?
http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5780
China's drug agency says importing countries must ensure safety
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/080227/x022702A.html
February 26, 2008
Finding Nontoxic Toys
http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/organic-parenting/zissu/non-toxic-toys-55026301
Fluoride may damage brain
http://www.nbc26.com/news/health/15994917.html
Smoke-free cars for kids? Ontario looks at car-smoking ban
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/307005
5 Investigates Mold Remediators
http://www.kpho.com/news/15414355/detail.html
Senate approves autism mandate
http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=57CA5351-D346-D743-BDC7EEBED06311E8
Secrets In The Soil: Judge Keeps Lawsuit Alive
http://cbs4.com/local/Toxic.Soil.Secrets.2.663570.html
Senator questions open access mandate
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54372/
February 25, 2008
Vaccines are Likely to Cause Insulin Dependent Diabetes in Over 2% of
Children With a Strong Family History of Insulin Dependent Diabetes, New
Data Indicates
http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/vaccines-likely-cause-insulin-dependent-diabetes-2-children-strong-family_491917_1.html
Toxic Trailers: Health concerns force government to find new housing for
hurricane victims
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/86/i08/8608notw6.html
Japan facing vaccination lawsuits
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/02/25/japan_facing_vaccination_lawsuits/6883/
Chlorine Can React With Sweat, Urine At Indoor Swimming Pools Forming
Volatile Disinfection Byproducts
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080219161946.htm
Health Center researchers investigate health risks to nail salon workers
http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2008/080225/08022513.htm
February 24, 2008
Professionals Urge End to Water Fluoridation
http://blogs.examiner.net/node/734
Fire Retardants Linked With Health Problems
http://cbs5.com/local/consumer.watch.flame.2.661700.html
Odor that got kids sick debated
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Feb/24/ln/hawaii802240350.html
February 23, 2008
Farmworkers want pesticide ban hastened
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080223/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pesticide_epa
Clean-up teams on toxic fallout watch
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23260979-662,00.html
EPA: 3 percent reduction overall in Hawai'i toxic releases
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/02/23/news/news09.txt
Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Environment/article/306165
Ahhh, the Seductive Fragrance of Molecules Under Patent
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/business/worldbusiness/23perfume.html?ei=5070&en=7e71d5bc8bb3e19a&ex=1204434000&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1203797276-Fd2IiLA0iNAgfNk2RY5byg&pagewanted=print
February 22, 2008
Just How Toxic Was that "Toxic" Satellite?
http://www.thedailygreen.com/print-this/environmental-news/latest/toxic-satellite-47022203
Lampitt Introduces Bill to Remove Toxic Baby Bottles, Other Plastics From
Store Shelves
http://www.politickernj.com/lampitt-introduces-bill-remove-toxic-baby-bottles-other-plastics-store-shelves-16633
India activists face jail for publicizing endosulfan risks
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jsass/india_activists_face_jail_for.html
Three percent overall reductions in California releases, persistent
bioaccumulative toxic chemical releases also down
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week8/Friday/022213.html
Thirty-three percent overall reduction in Nevada, persistent bioaccumulative
toxic chemical releases also down
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week8/Friday/022211.html
February 18, 2008
Arsenic threatens global health
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20081802-16913-2.html
February 11, 2008
Virginia Town First in U.S. to Ban Chemical and Radioactive Bodily Trespass;
Also Strips Corporations of "Rights"
http://www.celdf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=504
February 1, 2008
French judges probe firms over vaccinations -source
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL0173467120080201
Links
Air Quality - What is the local government responsibility? (PDF)
http://www.awma.org/files/education/air.pdf
ABC NEWS STORY: Are vaccines to blame for infant deaths?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgSrEzkFGyg
VIDEO: Cindy Sage. The BioInitiative Report - Biological Standards for
Wireless. 38 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tZDor-_co0
VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey Show (1996)
Hidden Environmental Dangers at Schools with Dr. Doris Rapp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1QreyGjuTo
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Scientific Studies
Piro F, Madsen C, Naess O, Nafstad P, Claussen B.
A comparison of self reported air pollution problems and GIS-modeled levels
of air pollution in people with and without chronic diseases
Environmental Health, 2008 7:9 (28 February 2008)
Abstract http://www.ehjournal.net/content/7/1/9/abstract
Provisional PDF http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-7-9.pdf
Guo P, Yokoyama K, Suenaga M, Kida H.
Mortality and life expectancy of Yokkaichi Asthma patients, Japan: Late
health effects of air pollution occurred in 1960-70s
Environmental Health, 2008 7:8 (26 February 2008)
Abstract http://www.ehjournal.net/content/7/1/8/abstract
Provisional PDF http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-7-8.pdf
PubMed http://www.ehjournal.net/pubmed/18302742
Migration of mercury from dental amalgam through human teeth
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18296776?dopt=AbstractPlus
Scientific Consensus Statement of Environmental Agents Associated with
Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
http://www.iceh.org/pdfs/LDDI/LDDIStatement.pdf
Chronic fatigue syndrome defies the mind-body-schism of medicine : New
perspectives on a multiple realizable developmental systems disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18288588?dopt=AbstractPlus
Screening and detection of the in vitro agonistic activity of xenobiotics on
the retinoic acid receptor.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18289828?dopt=AbstractPlus
Hair mercury in breast-fed infants exposed to thimerosal-preserved vaccines
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17237965?dopt=AbstractPlus
Chronic fatigue syndrome: characteristics and possible causes for its
pathogenesis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300582?dopt=AbstractPlus
Can the Neuropathic Pain Scale Discriminate Between Non-neuropathic and
Neuropathic Pain?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18298697&itool=iconabstr&itool=pubmed_DocSum
Photocopy machines and occupational antiphospholipid syndrome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300574?dopt=AbstractPlus
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