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For Chemical Pesticide Makers, A Fly in the (Organic) Ointment By Cindy Skrzycki - Tuesday, December 5, 2006; D01 - The makers of such insecticides as Raid and Off are taking a swat at what they consider a new nuisance in the neighborhood: nontoxic, botanical pesticides that are ratcheting up competition in the war on bugs. The Environmental Protection Agency recently extended until mid-January the comment period on a petition by an industry trade group seeking to end a legal exemption from testing for the natural ingredients in "minimal risk pesticides."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401201_pf.html

Pesticide Makers Take Aim at Organic Upstarts: Cindy Skrzycki -

Bloomberg - USA ... makers of insecticides like Raid and OFF! are taking a swat at what they consider a new nuisance in the neighborhood: non-toxic, botanical pesticides that are ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_skrzycki&sid=aZrRGYuKBrRA

Prenatal exposure to insecticides hinders kids' mental development -

Jacksonville, FL, USA ... by age three to exhibit early indications of behaviour and attention problems. ... was one of the most widely used insecticides for residential pest control across ... http://www.dailyindia.com/show/89531.php/Prenatal-exposure-to-insecticides-hinders-kids-mental-development

Is thriving insect life just another side-effect of conflict with ...

Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut, Lebanon ... Now it's increasing," says Bana Kalash Kobrosly, an employee at Boecker Pest Control in Beirut. ... "Tell the truth, there have been problems," a waiter says as a ...http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=77424

Local group to take part in indoor air quality meeting -

Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg, MS, USA ... The kits show schools how to execute a plan to attack indoor air problems at little or no cost, including tactics for pest management, ventilation, waste ... http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061205/NEWS01/612050320/1002

Florida Company Moves in on Rental Market via Distressed ...

Memphis Daily News - TN, USA ... "We used pest control service; we sprayed all the time. A lot of that is very resident-dependent. Residents can create those problems for themselves with ... http://www.memphisdailynews.com/Editorial/StoryFocus.aspx?&id=95375

Glyphosate-resistant pigweed a nightmare for some cotton producers -

Delta Farm Press - Bellevue, NE, USA

... So when it doesn�t rain for 40 or 50 days it causes great problems. ... least in one way: that everyone now realizes resistance is a looming pest and significant ... http://deltafarmpress.com/news/061205-pigweed-cotton/

In Epic New York Battle, the Rat Patrol Adjusts Its Aim -

New York Times - United States ... The number of pest-control complaints has nearly doubled since Mayor Michael R ... Complicating the problems, rats are developing resistance to many of the toxins ... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/nyregion/05rats.html?ref=nyregion

I offered to rid New York of rats and roaches for free and both Mayors elected to keep their vermin.

What About the Land? -

Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA ... based on systems that exacerbate soil erosion and water contamination, they're ... after year, an intensification that boosts fertilizer and pesticide requirements ... http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/12/05/olmstead/

Wash Your Greens -

Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside, CA, USA ... utensils and the cutting board thoroughly or use others to prevent cross-contamination. ... on produce will take off the grit and dirt and reduce pesticide residue ... http://www.pe.com/lifestyles/stories/PE_Fea_Daily_D_greens05.1231f81.html

The Circle Of Poison Continues -

TomPaine.com - Washington, DC, USA ... Dursban, for example, a Dow Chemical pesticide banned in the US for its ... stipulations�along with provisions to protect water sources from contamination�in a ...

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/05/the_circle_of_poison_continues.php

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Royal Flora focuses on the fresh supply chain -

Bangkok Post - Thailand ... Additionally, the impacts of increasing controls and regulations by both Japan and the EU on packaging, pesticide contamination and temperature control will be ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/06Dec2006_biz36.php

Funding Continues for Illness Scientists Dismiss - By David Brown - Fifteen years after the end of the 1991 war with Iraq, a Texas researcher is in line to get as much as $75 million in federal funding to press his studies of "Gulf War syndrome," even though most other scientists long ago discounted his theories.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120201291.html?referrer=emailarticle

Data gathered by the US CDC reveal strong associations between exposures to persistent contaminants and risk of type 2 diabetes. In a sample of 2,016 Americans, diabetes risk rose significantly with exposure to five of 6 studied contaminants (a PCB, two dioxins and three pesticides). Using an index reflecting simultaneous exposure to the mix of contaminants, the study found that people in the highest exposure category were almost 38 times more likely to have diabetes than those in the lowest.
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/obesity/2006/2006-0715leeetal.html
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Inquiry turns to humans on pollutant, hormone tie. A decade ago, the very idea that pollutants could interfere with a body's chemical messages was near the fringes of science. But now, it is an urgent topic for lawmakers and researchers around the world. Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120300992.html
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Pesticide: A safer bet? A sweeping federal review of pesticides is nearly complete, 10 years after it began. The debate over safety continues, but even critics agree that children are safer. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota.
http://www.startribune.com/535/story/848547.html
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Flame retardant risk stokes debate. A 59-year-old retired Fort Worth nurse has numerous chemical flame retardants in her blood, a Star-Telegram research project found. Those chemicals are used extensively in a host of household products and are commonly found in food and dust. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16160154.htm
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Group claims 'tobacco'-style lobby shields toxic interests. An environmental organization claims that a group funded by manufacturing and aerospace companies used misleading research and tobacco inInland Valley Daily Bulletin, California.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4767394
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Poultry industry fight rages on. Each year, hundreds of thousands of tons of litter are produced in chicken houses throughout the Illinois River watershed in northeast Oklahoma and western Arkansas. Associated Press
http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2006/12/03/ap-state-ar/d8lprj508.txt
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Coal's dirty past. Thousands of acres of Ohio remain polluted, dangerous. A Dispatch analysis of state data shows that Ohio has to repair more than 36,600 acres of mine damaged sites, about as much land as Pittsburgh occupies. And it has to clean up more than 1,000 miles of polluted streams. Columbus Dispatch, Ohio.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/04/20061204-A1-00.html
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Where did waste firm go? Less than a year after Environmental Disposal Systems won a 17-year fight to drill hazardous waste nearly a mile into the earth, state and city officials fear the company has up and left, leaving a huge mess. Detroit News, Michigan. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061204/METRO/612040359
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A quiet epidemic. Diabetes is now so widespread in Boston, particularly in minority communities, it is almost impossible to find a neighborhood untouched - and most prevalent is Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity. Boston Globe, Massachusetts.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/03/a_quiet_epidemic/

EU chemicals directive agreed. Member states and representatives of the European Parliament have reached a landmark agreement on how some 30,000 chemicals should be regulated within the European Union. The compromise was denounced by an alliance of environmental groups. Radio Telefis Eireann, Ireland.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1201/reach.html
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Do mobile phones cost the Earth? Mobile phones may be one of our smaller electronic possessions, but the environmental issues surrounding them are proving to be a sizeable challenge. BBC, UK..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6174422.stm
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Nonstick chemicals may pose a threat. They're found in floor waxes and shampoos. They're used in many fast-food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags. They coat pizza boxes, carpets and frying pans. And they're in people. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16167561.htm
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SF could ban baby products containing chemicals. A pending San Francisco law prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of baby products containing harmful chemicals has been stayed after a challenge by retailers, manufacturers and chemists. San Francisco KPIX TV, California. http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_338222456.html
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A new toxic threat from Ford dump. For years, the health threat at Ford's toxic waste dump that worried officials was the lead from automobile paint sludge. Now add dioxin and PCBs. Bergen County Record, New Jersey.
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MCZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzAzMjA3OSZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
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Scientists study genes in autism. Most mainstream scientists think there is a strong genetic component to autism that determines who will fall and who will stand strong in an encounter with an environmental health hazard. United Press International http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20061203-074024-3219r
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Obesity 'to fuel rise in cancers'. Soaring obesity levels could result in up to 12,000 cases of weight-related cancer being diagnosed annually in the UK by 2010, say experts. BBC, UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6206036.stm
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Memo: Administration tried to cut payouts to nuke workers. The Bush administration repeatedly sought ways to limit payouts to nuclear weapons workers sickened by radiation and toxic material, according to a memo. USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-04-nuke-workers_x.htm
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Systems struggle to address student health. In urban school systems nationwide, children living in poverty suffer higher rates of health problems -- asthma, malnutrition, obesity, mental disorders -- than the more affluent, with real academic consequences. Washington Post [Registration Required]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120400983.html

As EPA libraries go digital, public access suffers. For a new Democratic Congress facing big environmental issues from global warming to dwindling fisheries, the first step may be keeping the nation's top environmental libraries from closing. Christian Science Monitor - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p02s02-uspo.html
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Professor Doll failed to declare interests when working on vinyl chloride. The eminent epidemiologist Richard Doll acted as a paid industrial consultant to several chemical firms around the time he was working on a paper on the possible dangers of exposure to vinyl chloride, a new article says. British Medical Journal [Subscription Required]
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7579/1142-c
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Oversight Begins: Rep Miller Alarmed At OSHA Retaliation Against Employee Re.Asbestos Brakes - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/oversight-begins-rep-miller-alarmed-at.html

CalOSHA Cites Psych Center For Violence - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/calosha-cites-psych-center-for.html

Bush's Highway Deregulation Kills - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/bushs-highway-deregulation-kills.html

What To Do When You've Been Fired... http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-to-do-when-youve-been-fired.html

Kentucky Darby Mine Disaster Report Released: "Nothing Accidental About Deaths In The Mines" -

<http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/kentucky-darby-mine-disaster-report.html>

New Blog: The Pump Handle - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-blog-pump-handle.html

Mine Fatalities: All Is Not What It Seems - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/mine-fatalities-all-is-not-what-it.html

Weekly Toll: Death In The American Workplace -

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-toll-death-in-american.html

BP: Bad To Worse To.... http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/bp-bad-to-worse-to.html

Bravo! NTSB Chairman - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/bravo-ntsb-chairman.html

BP: More Workplace Safety Problems - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/bp-more-workplace-safety-problems.html

More Foxes Infest OSHA's Chicken Coop -

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-foxes-infest-oshas-chicken-coop.html

Happy Blogoversary To Effect Measure -

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/11/happy-blogoversary-to-effect-measure.html

Columbus rethinking lead-paint lawsuit. Columbus, OH leaders appeared poised to sue the nation's biggest paint companies over lead pigment in paint sold decades ago, but the likelihood that the threat will become a lawsuit now hinges on what the Ohio legislature and city officials want to do. Columbus Dispatch, Ohio. What price would you put on your prostate, liver or fertility? A growing number of scientists report that a portion of our susceptibility to various ailments may be established by chemical exposures our mothers and even grandmothers experienced while pregnant. [6]Oakland Tribune,
California. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_4765520

Back From Iraq:"I Killed Innocent People For Our Government" -

Netpano.com - Turkey... guns. What can you tell me about cluster bombs, or depleted uranium? Sgt. Massey: Depleted uranium. I know what it does. It's ... http://www.netpano.com/newsdetail.asp?NewsID=1146

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Depleted Uranium Munitions War Production Targeted -

Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco, CA, USA ... Tennessee. Aerojet produces weaponized - http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/02/18334694.php

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Danger in Toyland. San Francisco's ban on toxic toys - including such classics as the rubber ducky - highlights the lurking danger of plastic contaminants. Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1565496,00.html
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Toxic trade-off. This is a story about a trade-off: Products that make our everyday lives convenient, comfortable and safe contain potentially harmful chemicals that can remain in the body for decades. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas. [13][related stories]
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16155377.htm
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Regulatory system called into question. Many medical researchers and health experts say the system for regulating chemicals is a growing cause for concern and are asking whether the United States regulates toxic chemicals in a way that adequately protects people. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/16155354.htm
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Dioxins may take centuries to break down. The decline of dioxins -- a group of more than 70 chemicals that are unintended byproducts of industrial processes and now- banned herbicides -- is one of the greatest accomplishments in the EPA's 36-year history. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/16155439.htm
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Nicaragua fights for 'Death's Dew' compensation. Tens of thousands of residents of Latin America, Africa and the Philippines blame their health problems on Nemagon, a U.S.-made pesticide that was banned here in 1979. A few promising lawsuits seek damages. New York Newsday, New York.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wopest1203,0,2004291.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines
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Coke's PR offensive in India pays off. Coke's market research was clear. Indian consumers wanted someone credible to assure them Coca-Cola wasn't loaded with dangerous pesticides. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia.
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/business/stories/2006/12/03/sbizcokeindia1203a.html
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Advocate for environment to head Canada's liberals. In a convention that underscored the rising political weight of climate change, Canada's Liberal Party on Saturday chose Stephane Dion to lead the party and try to wrest power from the ruling Conservatives in the next national election. Washington Post [Registration Required]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120201214.html
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Asbestos dangers remained hidden for decades. Forty-five years after leaving a $1.95-an-hour job he'd worked for just six months, Ralph Blevins discovered why his chest hurts too much to sleep. There's every reason to believe other Utahns are in the dark, too. Salt Lake Tribune, Utah. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4764573
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Ohio popcorn plant workers say flavoring hurts lungs. Marion's popcorn industry has been a source of lawsuits when workplace inhalation of the powdery butter flavoring that coats microwave popcorn was linked to a potentially fatal lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1165149323242550.xml&coll=2
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Blowing the whistle on big oil. Former Interior Dept. Bobby L. Maxwell has become one of the most nettlesome whistle-blowers Big Oil has ever encountered, a face-off that offers an inside look at how the industry and the government do business together. [New York Times [Registration Required]
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/business/yourmoney/03whistle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&pagewanted=all
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Outside pressures come to town. The decades-long, worldwide debate about coal and pollution has come to central Texas where TXU Corp. wants to build 11 coal-fired power units. Dallas Morning News, Texas.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-coalfight_03bus.ART0.State.Edition1.316d889.html
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Trouble in the air. State officials promised that by 2009, federal, state and local measures would help protect people from breathing unsafe levels of lung-scarring ozone. But a mountain of medical evidence shows that it would still allow pollution levels known to be unhealthy. Dallas Morning News, Texas.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/120306dntswunhealthyair.3369cdd.html
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Collateral damage.' Residents near the epicenter of the Rockies' energy boom are starting to worry about their health, and who, exactly, is looking out for them. Aspen Times, Colorado. [55][related stories]
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20061203/NEWS/112030061
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An answer to the ills. Researchers at a small nonprofit in Paonia, CO, are scrambling to identify the chemicals used by energy companies to determine if there's a link between natural gas operations and area residents' health complaints. Aspen Times, Colorado. http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20061203/NEWS/112030063
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Errors extend beyond Apex site. The fireballs that rose from the Apex hazardous-waste warehouse in October put an exclamation point on a series of dangerous handling errors at chemical depots around the state. Raleigh News & Observer, North Carolina. http://www.newsobserver.com/167/story/517398.html
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Toxic next door neighbors. More than 20 million pounds of toxic chemicals are used annually by companies in a dozen MetroWest and Milford-area communities, including some of the same flammable materials used at the Danvers plant that exploded just before Thanksgiving, according to state records. Westborough News, Massachusetts.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=146800
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Funding continues for illness scientists dismiss. Fifteen years after the 1991 war with Iraq, a Texas researcher is in line to get as much as $75 million in federal funding to press his studies of "Gulf War syndrome," even though most other scientists long ago discounted his theories. Washington Post [Registration Required]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120201291.html
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Pollution-eating material paves way for clean air. Several companies are now developing smog-eating products that can be used not only for the facades of buildings but also in paint, plaster and paving materials for roads. Edinburgh Scotsman, Scotland. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1792352006

Columbus rethinking lead-paint lawsuit - But if legislature acts to outlaw such cases, city will sue anyway
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/01/20061201-A1-04.html
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Wildfire smoke sickens young, research finds. Children, even healthy ones without asthma, suffer serious respiratory symptoms from breathing smoke, according to a USC study to be published today. Los Angeles Times, California. [Registration Required] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wildfires1dec01,1,4684219.story
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Genetic clue tied to Nevada cancer cluster. Children in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more likely to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn why, federal researchers said Thursday. Associated Press - http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/16130867.htm

WTC Explosions - http://www.saunalahti.fi/wtc2001/military.htm

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Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten

MCS International Country Coordinator for the USA - http://www.mcs-international.org/meet_team_steve.html and:
http://www.mcs-international.org/articles/article_steve_tvedten1.html
Websites: http://www.thebestcontrol.com , http://www.getipm.com , http://www.learnipm.com , http://www.safesolutionsinc.com

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