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Dioxin Defined
One of the most hazardous of all chemicals, can cause both acute and long-term effects ranging from chloracne, a skin disease, to cancer, reproductive failures, and reduced resistance to infectious disease.
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New county counsel familiar with local issues
Published November 21, 2008, 1:19 pm, Siskiyou Daily News
He has an Italian background, grew up alternating between Vermont and San Diego, is a member of the Arkansas Bar and the California Bar, and came here from Mariposa County, where he served as county counsel. In a nutshell, that is Thomas P. Guarino – Siskiyou County’s new counsel.
Discharge limits eased for DuPont
Published November 21, 2008, 12:51 am, The News Journal
State regulators have released DuPont Co.'s Edge Moor pigment plant from tight limits on some types of toxic pollution discharges into the Delaware River.
A closer look at PVC
Published November 20, 2008, 9:16 pm, Erie Times-News
TheGreenOffice.com has become the first retailer in its industry to stop selling products made from polyvinyl chloride.
Nothing left to do but wait
Published November 19, 2008, 8:36 am, St. Marys Journal Argus
With the town’s own meeting on the proposed test burn of film plastic at St. Marys Cement complete, all parties involved must play the waiting game to see if the Ministry of the Environment gives the green light for the test.
Film on Agent Orange in Vietnam competes at international festival
Published November 17, 2008, 1:18 am, Nhân Dân
Nhan Dan- A film featuring Agent Orange/dioxin consequences in Vietnam by Sakata Masako and Bill Megalos from Japan will compete at the 26th International Environment Film Festival to be held in Paris, France from November 19 to 25.
Letter: "˜On our troops"™
Published November 16, 2008, 10:13 pm, Waxahachie Daily Light
Recently, The Military Times ran an article on the Burn pit at Balad Air Base in Balad, Iraq. Tens of thousands of troops, contractors and Iraqis have been exposed to the toxic fumes emitted by the daily burning of 147 tons of styrofoam, unexploded ordnance, petroleum products, plastics, rubber, dining facility trash, paint and solvents and medical waste, including amputated limbs.
Toxic site to be sealed
Published November 16, 2008, 8:11 am, Stuff
Hawke's Bay Regional Council is pressing Carter Holt Harvey to seal off a former timber mill site containing highly toxic chemical residues.
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- Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste, 60 Minutes: They use caustic chemicals and burn the plastic parts to get at the valuable components, often releasing toxins that they not only inhale, but release into the air, the ground and the water. Potable water must now be trucked into Guiyu and scientists have discovered that the city has the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world. Pregnancies in Guiyu are six times more likely to result in miscarriages, and seven out of 10 children there have too much lead in their blood.
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