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IN THIS EPA UPDATE: Model for Estimating Exposures and Risks to Birds and Mammals Now on Web - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available on its Web site the Terrestrial Residue Exposure (T-REX) Model, which automates the calculations needed for estimating pesticide residues on foliage, seeds, and fields, and the potential acute and chronic risks to birds and mammals based on these exposures. T-REX has been designed to be easy to use, yet maintains the level of flexibility needed for the multitude of chemicals and use patterns encountered by risk assessors. Replacing the Agency's previous terrestrial residues and risk calculation tools, this spreadsheet-based model allows the user to calculate dose- and dietary-based risk quotients, loadings or pesticide per unit area (LD50ft-2) for broadcast and banded (liquid and granular) pesticide applications, and seed treatment exposures to birds and mammals. Risk quotients, which are a prediction of risk, are calculated by dividing the estimated exposure to a pesticide by an effects or toxicity endpoint such as an LC50 (the concentration of a chemical where 50% of the exposed organisms die). The results are then presented by weight class for various size birds and mammals for each type of pesticide application. The spreadsheet file and user's guide for this model are available at: http://www.epa.gov/oppefed1/models/terrestrial/index.htm.
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MCS - Dr. Grace Ziem”s article ALLERGIES AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS at: http://mcsbeaconofhope.com/drzm.html . A federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among veterans of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past findings that the ailments resulted mostly from wartime stress. Article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/politics/15gulf.html?oref=login&ei=5094&en=0f74f8004623b4bf&hp=&ex=1097812800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=
Please sign and forward the petition for “World~Wide” Toxic Injury Awareness & Education at:
http://mcsbeaconofhope.com/prc2005m.html
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CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDHOOD CHEMICAL INJURY SURVEY - Participation in the following survey by anyone chemically injured during their childhood will be greatly appreciated. Information will be included in a scientific poster that has been accepted by the upcoming 3rd International Scientific Conference, "Framing the Future in Light of the Past: Living in a Chemical World," being held September 18-21, 2005, in Bologna, Italy. www.ramazzini.it/living2005 Scientists may learn for the first time about the many related difficulties that chemically disabled children must overcome. There has been little understanding and assistance available for those with this disability. It is especially devastating for children who struggle to make their way through an often uncooperative educational system and must rely upon and be subjected to misinformed and consequentially dangerous physicians. The intention of this poster will be to show the great need for specific disability assistance, properly educated physicians and the necessity of preventing these injuries.
The survey can be completed on the computer simply by cutting and pasting into an email. Just delete whichever Yes or No (Y or N) answer that you disagree with, so that the sentence will read true (for instance) “Is Big Bird yellow? Y.” Any additional comments would be greatly appreciated and may be added under “additional comments”. You should have unlimited typing space, but be sure your keyboard “Insert” button is off or you will eliminate the next part of the survey. To have responses included in the 3rd International Environmental Science Conference, they must be received within the next 7 days or no later than September 9th, 2005. Later responses are welcome and may be incorporated into another paper or poster, but will not be able to be used in the September poster.
For additional information or questions, email: pace@...
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SENATE APPROVES $10.5 BILLION FOR HURRICANE RELIEF - WASHINGTON, DC, September 2, 2005 (ENS) - Late last night the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill authorizing $10.5 billion in relief funding for the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The House is expected to follow suit today. Congress returned to Washington from their summer recess early to address the devastation left Monday by the hurricane.
UN, FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS OFFER POST-HURRICANE HELP - NEW YORK, New York, September 2, 2005 (ENS) - The top United Nations emergency relief official has offered the United States the world body’s help in “any way possible” following the loss of life and destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. At first, U.S. officials declined assistance. But Thursday, State Department officials indicated they are open to all offers as dozens of foreign governments lined up to pledge assistance. http://www.ens-newswire.com
OIL PRODUCTS TO BE RATIONED IN OIL-RICH IRAQ - BAGHDAD, Iraq, September 2, 2005 (ENS) - The Iraqi Oil Ministry is set to begin issuing rationing cards from September, as part of an effort to ease a shortage of oil products such as kerosene and cooking gas. While Iraq is believed to have the world’s second largest oil reserves, the lack of refining capacity, due in part to insurgent attacks, means it is forced to import petroleum products rather than produce them out of its own crude oil. http://www.ens-newswire.com
GENES OF HUMANS AND CHIMPS 96 PERCENT THE SAME - CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, September 2, 2005 (ENS) - The first comprehensive comparison of the genetic blueprints of humans and chimpanzees shows that the DNA sequence of the two species is 96 percent identical, an international research consortium reported Thursday. The comparison is based on the first sequencing and assembly of the chimpanzee genome just completed by researchers from the United States, Israel, Italy, Germany and Spain. http://www.ens-newswire.com
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Title: Pesticide Use Reduction Evaluation (PURE) Project - Abstract: Evaluation of the effectiveness of approaches to environmental
exposure reduction remains a relatively under-developed area of research relevant to human health and environments. Toronto Public
Health and University of Toronto researchers are collaborating to determine if pesticide by-laws improve the effectiveness of education
campaigns in reducing outdoor urban pesticide use. While some research suggests regulatory approaches might be more effective than
purely educational efforts there is a need for more reliable, quantifiable, long-term data. We are designing a long-term evaluation study by reviewing relevant literature and via consultation with other municipalities and key informants. The aim is to provide information useful to municipalities seeking to make evidence-based decisions on urban pesticide reduction policy. The co-investigators will present challenges and initial findings of key research components from the preliminary phase of this project.
http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/seminars/seminarschedule.html
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London bombers 'recorded video in Pakistan' with help of al-Qaeda - The chilling video message of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the British suicide bomber, was recorded in Pakistan after he was given orders to attack London, MI5 investigators suspect. According to senior Whitehall officials, the Security Service is probing the theory that Khan, 30, was filmed during a three-month visit to Pakistan with fellow bomber Shehzad Tanweer, which began in November last year.
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YOU BET YOUR LIFE By Michael C. Ruppert - September 2, 2005 0600 PST (FTW) -- Following these remarks is a brilliant piece of reporting by the American Progress Action Fund. It makes a clear case for what we are all now suspecting and seeing: the Bush administration is horribly mismanaging relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. Several things are now becoming clear. It is unlikely that New Orleans will ever be significantly rebuilt. When we talk about collapse as a result of Peak Oil, New Orleans is an exemplary – if horrifying – glimpse of what it will look like for all of us. In the case of New Orleans, however, it’s happening about two or three times as fast as we will see it when Peak Oil becomes an unavoidable, ugly, global reality. How long? Months. If we’re lucky, a year. As of August 2005 it’s not just a race to make sure that a particular region is not eaten by warfare and economic collapse. Mother Nature is obviously very hungry too. What region will be the next to go? What sacrifices can be offered before the inevitable comes knocking at our own personal door? Who can be pushed ahead of us into the mouth of the hungry beast in the hopes it will become sated?
Questions of Preparedness
And as one Louisiana paper put it, "No one can say they didn't see it coming. " There have been "decades of repeated warnings about a breach of levees or failure of drainage systems that protect New Orleans from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain."WHERE WERE THE PLANS FOR EMERGENCY DISASTER RELIEF? WHY WAS GULF COAST DISASTER PREPARATION SUCH A LOW PRIORITY? WHY WERE FEMA'S PREPAREDNESS MISSIONS DISMANTLED?: WHY WERE INEXPERIENCED POLITICAL APPOINTEES PICKED TO HEAD FEMA?:
And as one Louisiana paper put it, "No one can say they didn't see it coming. " There have been "decades of repeated warnings about a breach of levees or failure of drainage systems that protect New Orleans from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain."WHERE WERE THE PLANS FOR EMERGENCY DISASTER RELIEF? WHY WAS GULF COAST DISASTER PREPARATION SUCH A LOW PRIORITY? WHY WERE FEMA'S PREPAREDNESS MISSIONS DISMANTLED?: WHY WERE INEXPERIENCED POLITICAL APPOINTEES PICKED TO HEAD FEMA?:
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Note: The Price of Gas is Nothing, Compared to the Price of Global Warming.
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Carmelo Ruiz - carmelo_ruiz@... wrote: Worldwatch Projects - Catastrophe Will Be Most Costly Weather-Related Disaster in History........... It's hard to find up-dated info, or even old info, but, regarding the Mississippi and Missouri river systems, regarding floods and wetlands, apparently it is the case that the good ol' Army Corps of Engineers has for years been spraying herbicides in littoral areas in upper river drainage systems to eradicate "Ditch Weed", a wild form of hemp. The problems, as I remember them being described, include a plume of herbicide residues hitting every community down-stream and extending way into the Gulf of Mexico (the Dead Zone), and the destruction of a plant (the Ditch Weed) that is one of the best erosion and flood control plants due to its extensive roots. This insane Ditch Weed eradication campaign, that destroyed flood-controlling wetland areas, was cited as a contributor to the devastating mid-west flooding in the 90s.
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Vegetables poisoned by chemicals 9/4/2005 - WINTER is the best time of the year in Bangladesh for consumption of vegetables and wintertime for this country is nearing. The supply of vegetables in the wintertime is found to be particularly good in terms of price and variety. Health conscious people in the country are also more and more taking an interest in replacing meat in their diets with vegetables. Therefore, at a time when consumption of vegetables in the country is clearly on the rise, it indeed comes as disappointing fact that vegetable producers and their handlers at different levels in the distribution chain are resorting to large scale use of pesticides in the fields to preserve the vegetables and at secondary levels the handlers are using various chemicals to artificially lend colour or appearance of freshness to such vegetables. Both the insecticides and chemicals can be highly toxic. They make the vegetables (on which these are applied) toxic. Thus, in this manner toxic substances enter the human food chain as consumption of such vegetables by humans means passage of the toxins into human bodies. Regular entry of toxins in human bodies can cause many deadly diseases including cancer and failures of vital organs like kidneys and livers. So far, nothing has been heard that any governmental body is engaged in any service to persuade the farmers not to use pesticides but to go for natural ways of pest control. Nobody has warned or taken actions against vegetable sellers not to spray chemicals on them considering the health hazards such practice cause. It is indeed high time for the relevant ministry to do something immediately to safeguard public health from the serious threat posed by poisoned vegetables. http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=9/4/2005§ion_id=6&newsid=12895&spcl=no
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Going Organic Can Shield Children From Pesticides - A study finds benefits are 'immediate' and suggests that youths are exposed to the chemicals primarily through food, not spraying of homes.By Marla Cone, Times Staff Writer. - Switching to organic foods provides children "dramatic and immediate" protection from pesticides that are widely used on a variety of crops, according to a study by a team of federally funded scientists. Concentrations of two organophosphate pesticides — malathion and chlorpyrifos — declined substantially in the bodies of elementary school-age children during a five-day period when organic foods were substituted for conventional foods. The two chemicals are the most commonly used insecticides in U.S. agriculture. More than 2 million pounds were applied to California crops in 2003, according to records of the state Department of Pesticide Regulation. The health effects of exposure to minute amounts of pesticides found in food are largely unknown, especially for children. Some research, however, suggests that the residue may harm the developing nervous system. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/8418/abstract.html
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FDA to Hold Public 'Conversations' in Three Cities. To help inform consumers about agency programs and to get public feedback, FDA is holding a series of three public meetings called "Vision 2006 -- A Conversation With the American Public." Discussion topics include drug safety, direct-to-consumer advertising, dietary supplements, FDA's "Critical Path" initiative, and the advisory committee process. Meetings are scheduled for Sept. 13 (Miami), Nov. 2 (Boston), and Nov. 30 (Phoenix). http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/vision2006.html
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Friday, September 2, 2005 - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER - State ag department happy with second year of pesticide study By SHANNON DININNY - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER. YAKIMA, Wash. -- Low levels of pesticide residues were detected in four Washington state drainages in the second year of a pesticide monitoring program, according to a new report. However, high concentrations of one pesticide, malathion, in one drainage raised concerns. Malathion is an insecticide commonly used on crops such as alfalfa, asparagus, apples and cherries.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer/ap.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Pesticide%20Report
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Saturday, September 3, 2005 Page 3 - Globe and Mail - Digital Highlights - By CECILY ROSS - Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - BookTelevision, 8 p.m. - Hailed as "the fountainhead of modern environmentalism" Rachel Carson did more than alert the world to the perils of massive pesticide use. Her best-selling 1962 book Silent Spring introduced the notion of "the balance of nature" to a generation of North Americans, and the then-radical idea that nature was not something to be controlled, rather we must learn to work with it. We've still got a very long way to go, but if you recoil in horror as I did at this documentary's 1950s film footage of trucks cheerfully spewing billowing clouds of pesticides on school children as they eat their lunch, it is a small measure of just how far we have come.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050903/GT36DIGI/TPEntertainment/?query=pesticide
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PR Watch.org - How Low Can He Go? Topics: U.S. government Source: The Polling Report. Multiple opinion polls show that President Bush's approval rating has reached its lowest point ever. Gallup pegs him at 40% approval and 56% disapproval. And Gallup's analysis finds other bad news for the White House. "Some observers had argued that Bush's approval rating cannot go too much lower as long as Republicans remain robust in
their support," says Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport. "Well, we are seeing some signs of slight erosion in the support for the president even among his base in the Republicans." Gallup also compared Bush's current standings against the ratings for the six other U.S. presidents since World War II who have served two terms. "Only one of the six presidents in the late summer of the year after they were relected was lower than Bush's current 40% rating, and that was Richard Nixon. He had a 34% rating in August of 1973. Of course, at that point he was beset by the woes of Watergate. Each of the
other five presidents in the summer or late summer of the year after they had been reelected was significantly higher than Bush is right now." In addition to rising oil prices and dissatisfaction with Bush's domestic policies, the war on Iraq in taking its toll, as nearly two-thirds of Americans now feel the war has made them less safe rather than more safe from terrorism.http://www.prwatch.org/
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PR Watch.org - Compassionate Conservatives Conserve Cooperatively - Topics: U.S. government | right wing | environment Source: Associated Press, August 29, 2005 - At "the first presidential conference on the environment in 40 years," opening on August 29 in St. Louis, Bush administration officials will promote "cooperative conservation." Jim Connaughton of the White House Council on Environmental Quality says "cooperative conservation" supports local, private conservation while reducing "some of the expansive machinery of government that can sometimes get
in the way." Examples include a partnership between the Nature Conservancy and the Pentagon. Nature Conservancy president Steven McCormick calls it "a tremendous opportunity," since "there are more endangered species on military facilities than on any other federal lands." This year, for the first time ever, Congress appropriated $12.5 million for similar environmental-military partnerships. Environmental Defense lawyer Michael Bean warns the initiative will "de-emphasize the regulations." The Natural Resources Defense Council's Wesley Warren dismisses "cooperative conservation" as "just
another name for voluntary partnership. ... It's not enough. http://www.prwatch.org/
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PR Watch.org - Transparency Haunts PR Firms Selling Corporate Social Responsibility - Topics: public relations | ethics | corporate social responsibility - Source: Ethical Corporation, August 24, 2005. In a review of the role of PR firms in corporate social responsibility programs, Lisa Roner writes that "many early efforts to communicate on corporate responsibility have been high on production value and low on substance." Citing examples such as Hill & Knowlton's role in the first Gulf War and the more recent overbilling controversy that engulfed Fleishman-Hillard over its
contracts with a Los Angeles government agency, Roner argues that PR companies have image problems of their own. "It appears PR firms may
have to clean up their own ethics, since many corporate buyers seem to believe that a messenger with internal issues of its own may not be best placed to deliver a credible message," she concludes. http://www.prwatch.org/index.html?from=10
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PR Watch.org - The Junkman Goes Nuclear - Topics: science | right wing | environment Source: Media Matters for America, August 12, 2005 - Steven Milloy holds forth about nuclear waste for Fox News.Media Matters for America has news on the latest from Steven Milloy,
the Cato Institute's self-proclaimed "debunker" of "junk science" and commentator for Fox News. They report that Milloy (who is not a
scientist himself) recently self-published a deceptive "study" purporting to show that radiation levels at the U.S. Capitol Building were 65 times higher than the proposed standards for the federal government's planned high-level radioactive waste storage dump at Yucca Mountain. For our exposes on Milloy, see, for example, our article on "How Big Tobacco Created the Junkman" or our report on Milloy's unfounded claim that more asbestos at the World Trade Towers would have saved lives during the 9/11 terrorist attack. (And for a humorous take on the Milloys of the world, the Slashdot website recently featured a clever posting titled, "Can You Spot the Real Scientist?") http://www.prwatch.org/index.html?from=20
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May/June 2005 Issue - Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank - ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. Herewith, a representative overview. http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html
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Sep. 3, 2005.- Toronto Star - Grandmother fears it's too late to save the Earth - BONNIE BUXTON - LIFE HAPPENS. My true-life nightmare took place on one of those awful, hot, smoggy days that have happened too many times this summer. There I was, at 3 p.m., trapped with my 5-year-old grandson in a steaming car in a baking, near-empty TTC parking lot, unable to get out. "Omygod," I thought. "Is this how we die?" There was a glitch in the electrical system of my 10-year-old Oldsmobile. The key was stuck in the ignition, wouldn't move, and I couldn't get it out. I couldn't turn on the engine. When I'd tried to start the car, the doors had locked shut and wouldn't open. The windows wouldn't open, either. The horn did not work. And wouldn't this be the day I'd left the cellphone at home, sitting snugly in its charger?............ I managed to get Kenny and me out of the car, but none of my efforts can save him from the environmental devastation that seems to increase every day: depleted ozone layer, shrinking icecaps, global
warming, extreme weather, and poisoned oceans and air. In this global village, we are all connected - a little boy trapped in a baking car in Toronto and thousands of people waving white garments from roofs in flooded New Orleans.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1125526231632&call_pageid=970599119419&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer/ap.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Pesticide%20Report
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Saturday, September 3, 2005 Page 3 - Globe and Mail - Digital Highlights - By CECILY ROSS - Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - BookTelevision, 8 p.m. - Hailed as "the fountainhead of modern environmentalism" Rachel Carson did more than alert the world to the perils of massive pesticide use. Her best-selling 1962 book Silent Spring introduced the notion of "the balance of nature" to a generation of North Americans, and the then-radical idea that nature was not something to be controlled, rather we must learn to work with it. We've still got a very long way to go, but if you recoil in horror as I did at this documentary's 1950s film footage of trucks cheerfully spewing billowing clouds of pesticides on school children as they eat their lunch, it is a small measure of just how far we have come.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050903/GT36DIGI/TPEntertainment/?query=pesticide
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PR Watch.org - How Low Can He Go? Topics: U.S. government Source: The Polling Report. Multiple opinion polls show that President Bush's approval rating has reached its lowest point ever. Gallup pegs him at 40% approval and 56% disapproval. And Gallup's analysis finds other bad news for the White House. "Some observers had argued that Bush's approval rating cannot go too much lower as long as Republicans remain robust in
their support," says Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport. "Well, we are seeing some signs of slight erosion in the support for the president even among his base in the Republicans." Gallup also compared Bush's current standings against the ratings for the six other U.S. presidents since World War II who have served two terms. "Only one of the six presidents in the late summer of the year after they were relected was lower than Bush's current 40% rating, and that was Richard Nixon. He had a 34% rating in August of 1973. Of course, at that point he was beset by the woes of Watergate. Each of the
other five presidents in the summer or late summer of the year after they had been reelected was significantly higher than Bush is right now." In addition to rising oil prices and dissatisfaction with Bush's domestic policies, the war on Iraq in taking its toll, as nearly two-thirds of Americans now feel the war has made them less safe rather than more safe from terrorism.http://www.prwatch.org/
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PR Watch.org - Compassionate Conservatives Conserve Cooperatively - Topics: U.S. government | right wing | environment Source: Associated Press, August 29, 2005 - At "the first presidential conference on the environment in 40 years," opening on August 29 in St. Louis, Bush administration officials will promote "cooperative conservation." Jim Connaughton of the White House Council on Environmental Quality says "cooperative conservation" supports local, private conservation while reducing "some of the expansive machinery of government that can sometimes get
in the way." Examples include a partnership between the Nature Conservancy and the Pentagon. Nature Conservancy president Steven McCormick calls it "a tremendous opportunity," since "there are more endangered species on military facilities than on any other federal lands." This year, for the first time ever, Congress appropriated $12.5 million for similar environmental-military partnerships. Environmental Defense lawyer Michael Bean warns the initiative will "de-emphasize the regulations." The Natural Resources Defense Council's Wesley Warren dismisses "cooperative conservation" as "just
another name for voluntary partnership. ... It's not enough. http://www.prwatch.org/
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PR Watch.org - Transparency Haunts PR Firms Selling Corporate Social Responsibility - Topics: public relations | ethics | corporate social responsibility - Source: Ethical Corporation, August 24, 2005. In a review of the role of PR firms in corporate social responsibility programs, Lisa Roner writes that "many early efforts to communicate on corporate responsibility have been high on production value and low on substance." Citing examples such as Hill & Knowlton's role in the first Gulf War and the more recent overbilling controversy that engulfed Fleishman-Hillard over its
contracts with a Los Angeles government agency, Roner argues that PR companies have image problems of their own. "It appears PR firms may
have to clean up their own ethics, since many corporate buyers seem to believe that a messenger with internal issues of its own may not be best placed to deliver a credible message," she concludes. http://www.prwatch.org/index.html?from=10
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PR Watch.org - The Junkman Goes Nuclear - Topics: science | right wing | environment Source: Media Matters for America, August 12, 2005 - Steven Milloy holds forth about nuclear waste for Fox News.Media Matters for America has news on the latest from Steven Milloy,
the Cato Institute's self-proclaimed "debunker" of "junk science" and commentator for Fox News. They report that Milloy (who is not a
scientist himself) recently self-published a deceptive "study" purporting to show that radiation levels at the U.S. Capitol Building were 65 times higher than the proposed standards for the federal government's planned high-level radioactive waste storage dump at Yucca Mountain. For our exposes on Milloy, see, for example, our article on "How Big Tobacco Created the Junkman" or our report on Milloy's unfounded claim that more asbestos at the World Trade Towers would have saved lives during the 9/11 terrorist attack. (And for a humorous take on the Milloys of the world, the Slashdot website recently featured a clever posting titled, "Can You Spot the Real Scientist?") http://www.prwatch.org/index.html?from=20
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May/June 2005 Issue - Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank - ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. Herewith, a representative overview. http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html
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Sep. 3, 2005.- Toronto Star - Grandmother fears it's too late to save the Earth - BONNIE BUXTON - LIFE HAPPENS. My true-life nightmare took place on one of those awful, hot, smoggy days that have happened too many times this summer. There I was, at 3 p.m., trapped with my 5-year-old grandson in a steaming car in a baking, near-empty TTC parking lot, unable to get out. "Omygod," I thought. "Is this how we die?" There was a glitch in the electrical system of my 10-year-old Oldsmobile. The key was stuck in the ignition, wouldn't move, and I couldn't get it out. I couldn't turn on the engine. When I'd tried to start the car, the doors had locked shut and wouldn't open. The windows wouldn't open, either. The horn did not work. And wouldn't this be the day I'd left the cellphone at home, sitting snugly in its charger?............ I managed to get Kenny and me out of the car, but none of my efforts can save him from the environmental devastation that seems to increase every day: depleted ozone layer, shrinking icecaps, global
warming, extreme weather, and poisoned oceans and air. In this global village, we are all connected - a little boy trapped in a baking car in Toronto and thousands of people waving white garments from roofs in flooded New Orleans.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1125526231632&call_pageid=970599119419&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
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EPA Launches Fertilizer and Pesticide Awareness Campaign - September 1, 2005. Long Islanders love their lawns and do their best to make them healthy. But studies suggest that many may be going overboard in their pursuit of an idealized lawn; especially in over-applying fertilizers in a way that overloads the local marine environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) have teamed up to address the problem with a public awareness campaign that encourages homeowners to limit their use of lawn care products to reduce their impact on ground water, local water bodies and the aquatic life that inhabit them.............. The key message in EPA's fertilizer and pesticide awareness campaign to homeowners is to limit their use of chemical lawn care products and, when they are used, to ensure they are applied properly and
effectively with minimum impact on the environment. More information on the fertilizer and pesticide awareness campaign can be viewed at:
www.epa.gov/region2/greenscaping. - Source: EPA September 1, 2005
http://www.wwdmag.com:80/wwd/index.cfm?powergrid=rfah=|cfap=&CFID=787060&CFTOKEN=12421334&fuseaction=showNewsItem&newsitemid=9995
effectively with minimum impact on the environment. More information on the fertilizer and pesticide awareness campaign can be viewed at:
www.epa.gov/region2/greenscaping. - Source: EPA September 1, 2005
http://www.wwdmag.com:80/wwd/index.cfm?powergrid=rfah=|cfap=&CFID=787060&CFTOKEN=12421334&fuseaction=showNewsItem&newsitemid=9995
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Pentagon War Crimes: 'DU Is A War Crime' - "One way or another, the Pentagon will pay a price. 'Depleted uranium (DU) is a war crime. It's that simple,' Dr. Doug Rokke says. 'Once you've scattered all this stuff around, and then refuse to clean it up, you've committed a war crime.'" Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq.
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W.R. Grace Wants Trial Moved Out of Montana - By Carrie Johnson - Washington Post Staff Writer - Saturday, September 3, 2005; Page D02. Six years of inflammatory press coverage has irreparably biased potential jurors in a conspiracy and environmental crimes case against W.R. Grace & Co., according to court papers filed yesterday by the company's lawyers arguing that the trial should be moved out of state. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202393.html
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Car fresheners 'can cause crashes' By REBECCA TORR. CAR air-fresheners could actually cause car crashes, according to a Bahrain-based aromatherapy expert. That is because they can cause sleepiness, headaches, irritability and even depression in drivers, says Spa Arabia Concepts managing director and spa consultant Betsy Mathieson Abdulrahman. "Chemicals are all around you and car air-fresheners are among the worst," she told the GDN. "We are being bombarded with chemicals, but car air-fresheners are worse because of the enclosed space. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=121070&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28167
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News Letter- The time has come to take a new direction in the fight against the use and misuse of dangerous pesticide POISONS and other harmful actions/products. And to further the movement of using safe alternatives, a new Yahoo Group is now established called TheBugStopsHere, which is named after the book I first published on the internet and which still can be downloaded FREE or bookmarked at: http://www.safesolutionsinc.com or http://www.thebestcontrol.com . For years, Linda used to post information to my websites (www.getipm.com to name only one) but, theamount of information has grown so much that I now have to send out a daily newsletter. Because even the greatly condensed information that is sent out in my News Letter can be overwhelming in volume at times, some people may simply elect to be removed from my email list and check out: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thebugstopshere - this site will now be a repository for my News Letter. Since I am the owner of the group and it is set up for the broadcast of my newsletter only, you can still request information from me by replying to the owner of the group in the following manner: Send an email to me at thebugstopshere-owner@yahoogroups.com. Remember, you must be a member of the group to receive the News Letter and if you do not want to join, the information can still be viewed by anyone in the public domain using the internet. To subscribe, send an email to thebugstopshere-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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I have posted a lot of free pest control alternatives and other relevant information on the websites located at: http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/resources.htm and/or http://www.thebestcontrol.com . There is a free 86 page booklet on how to control most pest problems without using any pesticide POISONS entitled: THE BUG STOPS HERE. There is a free chapter on Lice/Scabies, a chapter on Mosquitoes, a free chapter on Detoxification and a section on fire ants from my newest IPM manual/encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to simply read and/or download. There simply is no need to POISON yourself.
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"Want To Detox And Be Healthy?" learn how to Detox and become healthy again at: http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/healthy.pdf .
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"How to Beat Cancer"- http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/cancer.htm
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Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
USA Representative - MCS International
http://www.mcs-international.org
Websites: http://www.thebestcontrol.com , http://www.getipm.com , http://www.learnipm.com , http://www.safesolutionsinc.com
To learn more about the Bug Stops Here Yahoo group group, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thebugstopshere
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