Environmental defense

Email this page to a friend

Want news about Environmental defense and more e-mailed to you? Click here for free email alerts

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Right-to-know initiatives have been facilitated by the very recent development of special Internet web sites, easy to use on home computers. An environmental defense Fund web site enables citizens to call up the following information on community industrial pollution: who are the polluters in any community; how serious is the pollution; what are the carcinogenic and other health effects of these pollutants; and what regulations govern these pollutants.

Natural Cures Michael Castleman See book keywords and concepts

The main source of pesticides in the American diet is not produce but meat. The environmental defense Fund measured pesticide contamination of breast milk in 1,400 nursing women in 46 states. Compared with levels found in the vegan women, the meat- and dairy-eaters' levels were twice as high. "Most pesticides are fat-soluble," Dr. Falck explains. "If you eat plants that have been treated with them, you ingest a tiny amount of residue that accumulates in your fatty tissues, such as female breast tissue. But the real problem develops when you eat animal fat.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Quite apart from these uncertainties, costings based on medical treatment and income t In November, 1978, the environmental defense Fund sent to the White House a forty-page legal memorandum, arguing that the President has no more authority to intervene in regulatory proceedings after the public comment period has closed than anyone else, unless that authority is explicitly granted by the statute under which the rule is written.

Living Downstream Sandra Steingraber See book keywords and concepts

Our task was made more pressing by the findings of a new study that had just been released by the environmental defense Fund and was circulating among the conference attendees. A follow-up to the National Research Council's 1984 report on toxic chemical regulation (see pages 99-100 and 312), the new investigation found that basic toxicity testing results still cannot be located in the public record for nearly three-quarters of the top-volume chemicals in the United States. Two-thirds of the most widely used chemicals have still not gone through basic carcinogenicity tests.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

Charlottesville, VA 22902 804/295-2134 Fax 202/861-8378 The following two groups are watchdogs of the epa environmental defense Group 257 Park Ave. South New York, NY 10010 800/684-3322 www.edf.org Natural Resources Defense Council 40 W. 20th St. New York, NY 10011 212/727-2700 http://www.nrdc.org nrdcinfo@nrdc.org Research and Medical Societies American Chemical Society 1155 16th St. NW Washington, DC 20036 202/872-6041 Fax 202/872-4370 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 55 W. Seegers Rd.

Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis See book keywords and concepts

Aventis, the manufacturer of StarLink, claims that the amounts of the protein found in the consumer foods was too low to induce allergic responses, to which Rebecca Goldburg, senior scientist at environmental defense replied in the Wall StreetJournal, "There is no way a credible scientist could rule out CRY9C as a potential human allergen. I'm especially concerned about the risk to children, who are much more vulnerable to allergies than adults." 41.

The Cancer Industry Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

According to Barry Cas-tleman, a consultant to the environmental defense Fund and an expert on asbestos: In December 1974 Amatex began to import asbestos textiles into the U.S. from the Juarez plant. Amatex "imported" about 2 million pounds of asbestos textiles from its Mexican border plants in 1975, about one-fourth of U.S. imports from the entire world that year (ibid.). U.S. journalists who visited the two Amatex plants in 1977 found "clumps of asbestos clinging to nearby bushes and fences where neighborhood children play.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

How Atmospheric Ozone Is Destroyed SOURCE: Protecting the Ozone Layer: What You Can Do (New York: environmental defense Fund, 1988). solvents, emit CFCs immediately; others, like rigid urethane foams, trap CFC gases inside small holes, where they remain intact for decades until the foam is destroyed or disposed. Because they are very stable, CFCs remain in the atmosphere for decades, moving upward into the lower atmosphere, where they trap heat as "greenhouse" gases, and continuing farther upward to the upper atmosphere. In the stratosphere, CFCs and halons react with ultraviolet light.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The next day, the environmental defense Fund filed a petition to ban all uses of A/D on the grounds of its adverse ecological effects and its carcinogenicity. One month later, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus received the decision of the D.C. Circuit Court to ban DDT and to develop policies for cancellation of other toxic pesticides, whenever their use raised "substantial questions of safety." It was against this background of events that the regulatory struggle on A/D began in earnest.

page 2 of 2 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalNews.com/np/index.html

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of this NaturalNews Naturalpedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.