Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts | | In reviewing studies of bottled water, the environmental policy Institute found that bottled water frequently contains low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals and solvents, some of which may come from the processing and storage of the water.
• Thirteen of fourteen out-of-state brands of mineral water sold in Massachusetts exceeded state guidelines for sodium in a 1987 Massachusetts State Department of Health survey. | Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts | | The environmental policy Act prohibits the use of paraquat in national forests. U.S. Representative Elliott Levitas called the spraying program "a dingbat idea" and estimated that the spraying, which cost nearly $1 million and involved only about sixty plants, cost $16,666 per plant. Money was no object, however; officials acknowledged that one reason for the spraying was to impress the Colombian government with American efforts to control cannabis by using paraquat and to convince them to do likewise. | John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts | In Fortune magazine, Whelan appeared as the source in a story by Ann Reilly Dowd which stated, "A big part of the problem is that America's environmental policy making has increasingly been driven more by media hype and partisan politics than by sensible science. . . . Despite the waves of panic that roll over America each year, some 500 scientists surveyed by the American Council on Science and Health have concluded that the threat to life from environmental hazards is negligible." Neither Cronkite nor Dowd explained that the ACSH is an industry front group. | Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts | A medical view can be appreciated as a philosophy of matter, as an environmental policy; a medical view instructs us in how to interact with matter to get desired results; it hands us the keys to apparent efficacy in our manipulation of matter.
In the broadest sense, there are basically two medical views in the world today. |
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