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Environmental Topics - General

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

• Did You Know That Your Food Is Genetically Altered?
• Sustainable Agriculture - In Praise of Cowdung by Vandana Shiva
• 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
• Greenpeace Speaks Out On "Vandalism" of GE crop trials
• Will Genetically Engineered Crops Mean Adulterated and Toxic Food?
• Genetic Engineering - What is it? Why is it an environmental threat?
• Precise Precaution Versus Sloppy Science - On "Substantial Equivalence"
• Biodeception: FDA Fraud on Genetically Engineered Food
• Impact of Genetic Engineering on Farming
• Dangers of "Stealth" Foods, aka Genetically Engineered Foods
• Genetic Engineering - Biopiracy
• Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) - Journalists sue Fox TV station
• The Story about Monsanto rBGH that WVTV wouldn't air
• Report on rBGH and the lawsuit by Peter Montague
• Warning: Serious Cancer Risk From Monsanto rBGH Milk
• Monsanto Denounced in British Parliament, Part 1
• Monsanto Denounced in British Parliament, Part 2

Community Health and Organizing

• Community and Statewide Organizations
• National Organizations, Foundation-Supported Consulting and Law Firms
• What Do We Do To Protect Ourselves?
• What Do We Do Locally? A strategy for community activism. 
• What Do We Do Globally? A strategy to clean up the earth.
• A Strategy for the Environmental Movement
• Important - Fundraising appeal by Peter Montague for Rachel's
• Tulane Environmental Law Clinic - A Force For The Community
• The Precautionary Principle - Statement from Wingspread Conference

Dioxin and PCBs

• Dioxin Alert - It's in our food, air, and water!
• Sperm Count Decline Confirmed in new study 
• Dioxin Alert Shuts French Waste Incinerators
• High Dioxin Levels Found in Milk in the north of France (French version)
• More severe dioxin contamination in French milk
• New ATSDR Dioxin Standard - More Than Meets The Eye
• ATSDR Downgrading Dioxin Toxicity
• The 1994 EPA Dioxin Reassessment - Estimating Exposure
• The 1994 EPA Dioxin Reassessment - Risk Characterization
• PCBs - These Supertoxins are Everywhere
• The 1998 EPA PCB Cancer Dose Response Assessment
• Triclosan - Is Colgate-Palmolive's Total Toothpaste Safe?

Fertilizers - Toxic Waste, Fluorides, & Radiation

• Death In The Air - Air Pollution From Phosphate Fertilizer Production by George Glasser

Hazardous Waste

• Memoirs of an EPA Whistleblower - The Collected Papers of William Sanjour
• Hazardous Waste Incineration - A Deadly Deal
• Hazardous Waste Treatment Site Lists
• Less-toxic and Non-Toxic Technologies
• Toxic Wastesites - The Superfund Site Database

Media

• Whatever Happened to The New Yorker that Published Silent Spring?
• Breast Cancer - A Study Gone Wrong? 
• Is There Industry Bias at the New England Journal of Medicine?
• News & Reviews of New England Journal of Medicine conflict
• Sandra Steingraber responds to NEJM review and conflict

Mercury

• Amalgams - Neurotoxic effects of "silver" dental fillings
• Immune Reactive Conditions - The Mercury Connection
• Effects of Toxic Metals on Learning Ability and Behavior
• Autism: a Novel Form of Mercury Poisoning

Newsletter Archives

• U. S. and Canada
• International
• Africa
• Asia
• Central and South America
• Europe

Nuclear Matters

• Y2K and the World's Nuclear Systems - The Deadliest Gamble
• Nuclear Sites
• Nuclear Madness #1 - Recycling radioactive metals
• Nuclear Madness #2 - Mobile Chernobyl, or, a Parking Lot full of Radwaste
• Depleted Uranium - The Real Story
• Medical Consequences of Depleted Uranium

Pesticides

• Lawn Pesticides and Weed Killers - Toxic turf. 
• Safety of Chlorpyrifos (Dursban) questioned
• Toxic Legacy - The Spraying of Kellner Canyon

Pollution - Continual Releases of Toxic Chemicals

• TRI maps at Clary Meuser Research Network
• The Right-To-Know Network (rtk.net)

Resources and Survival Guides

• Environmental Resources - Books and Periodicals
• Life in the Toxics - Book Preview (Introduction and Chapter 1)
• Environmental Health Web Photo Gallery - Boston University

Solid Waste (aka Trash) Landfills, Incineration and Recycling

• 100% Recycling - Not Just a Dream
• Municipal Waste Incinerators and Ash Landfills - U. S. National list
• A New Approach to Waste
• Incineration: The British Government Ignores the Dangers to Health
• Charges of Dirty Tricks at WMX - the truth is stranger than fiction
• Stop Waste Management (WMX) Website
• Waste Management, Inc.: An Encyclopedia of Environmental Crimes & Other Misdeeds
• Burned: The Life & Times of Spokane’s Incinerator
• Rising From The Ash by Ted S. McGregor, Jr.
• Incineration News - RACHEL #592 - Incineration, dioxin, and cancer
• Washington State University Medical Waste Incinerator Website

Sludge and Sewage

• Sludge Alert - Hazardous sewage sludge becomes "fertilizer"
• Civilization & Sludge - A History by Abby Rockefeller
• The Sludge Hits The Fan - excerpted from Toxic Sludge Is Good For You!

Toxic World, Toxic Culture

• Beanie Babies Go Non-Toxic!
• Do Cellular Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
• PolyVinyl Chloride (PVC) - Study in Sweden links PVC with cancer
• In Strictest Confidence - Houston Chronicle articles on the PVC industry
• Lead - Poisonous Pigments. 
• Smoking linked to Conduct Disorder in boys
• All Nuclear Power Plants Must Be Shut Down Now
• Who Is Osama bin Laden
• War Against Afghanistan?
• Whatever Happened to The New Yorker that Published Silent Spring?
• Genetic Engineering or BioPiracy?
• 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
• U.S. Intervention Again - The Colombia Plan, by Noam Chomsky
• Did The U.S. Really Need to Bomb Iraq?
• Voices in the Wilderness - Letter on the Iraq Embargo
• Opposition to the Iraq Embargo
• Are Corporations Psychopathic?
• McDonald's, Exploitation, and the Global Economy
• Depleted Uranium - The Real Story