Toxic Chemicals
"Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it." -Chief Seattle
Toxic Chemicals Headlines
- 11/17/08 - Where That "Recycled" E-Waste Really Goes
- 11/14/08 - Pesticides More Dangerous Than Thought
- 11/12/08 - Cancer Society Turns Sights to Farm Pesticides
- 11/11/08 - Court Ruling Protects Organic Farmers from Pesticide Drift
- 11/10/08 - Cities, States Questioning Wisdom of Adding Fluoride Chemicals to Public Water Supplies
- 11/06/08 - Why Small Plastic Particles May Pose a Big Problem in the Oceans
- 10/30/08 - Ecologists Link Agricultural Chemicals and Potentially Devastating Infections in Amphibians
- 10/28/08 - Alert of the Week: EPA Considers Weakening Fumigant Regulations
- 10/27/08 - Lead Researcher on BPA Study Accepts $5 Million From Industry
- 10/27/08 - FDA Conspired with Chemical Industry to Declare Bisphenol-A Harmless
- 10/22/08 - Ban on Pesticides May Face NAFTA Test
- 10/21/08 - Lead and Smoke Are Key Causes of ADHD: Study
- 10/14/08 - As Food Prices Rise, Fertilizer Shortage Now Threatens World's Conventional (Non-Organic) Farms
- 10/13/08 - What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know About Everyday Products
- 10/10/08 - Grist Magazine On Green Cookware
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The GNA Platform:
Press the politicians to support:
- A cost-efficient, publicly-funded, universal health care program with a preventive focus, a major emphasis on better nutrition, physical exercise, stress reduction, reduced exposure to toxins, and the use of complementary, natural medicine and practices.
- The recent "REACH" legislation in the European Union, whereby corporations are required to register and safety test all synthetic chemicals put into consumer products or released into the environment and demonstrate their safety, or else remove these chemicals from the market.
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Infobits
- "In the past 50 years more than 75,000 chemicals have been introduced into the environment. Today 300 synthetic chemicals are found in the bodies of humans. Even newborn babies have synthetic chemicals passed on from their mothers." - REACH (a program of the EU)
- Nationwide, air pollution causes 50,000 to 100,000 premature deaths per year.
- More than 7 million accidental poisonings occur each year, with more than 75% involving children under age 6!
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