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☆ Contaminated water in North Carolina has been linked to a higher risk of Parkinson's in a new study of over 300,000 veterans
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A new study found a connection between contaminated water at a military base and Parkinson's disease. The risk of Parkinson's was 70% higher for over 300,000 veterans from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Those stationed at Camp Lejeune were there for at least three months between 1975 and 1985. Even veterans who were not diagnosed with Parkinson's disease still had "significantly higher" risk for early signs and symptoms of the illness, the researchers reported in the study. Both Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have previously acknowledged the exposure of trichloroethylene at Camp Lejeune.
☆ Biden to sign executive order on 'environmental justice'
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on Friday directing federal agencies to put more focus on environmental polices that do harm to communities, according to the White House. The order will establish a new Office of Environmental Justice within the White House aimed at coordinating efforts across the government. It would also require federal agencies to notify communities if toxic substances are released from a federal facility. Biden will announce the initiative during an event at the White House Rose Garden on Friday. His vice president, Kamala Harris, plans to visit Miami on Friday, a White House official said, to announce a $562 million investment in helping communities become more resilient to climate change.
☆ Biden to order all federal agencies to prioritize environmental justice
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
(Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)President Joe Biden on Friday will sign an executive order directing federal agencies to invest in disadvantaged communities disproportionately affected by pollution and climate change, the White House said. The order will create a new Office of Environmental Justice in the White House to coordinate all environmental justice efforts across the federal government and require agencies to notify nearby communities if toxic substances are released from a federal facility. The president, who is preparing to announce his reelection bid next week, will make the announcement during a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden. Biden is expected to argue that his administration's historic environmental justice and climate agenda contrasts with "the dangerous vision Speaker McCarthy and his extreme caucus have for our planet, our economy, and public health," the official said. Early in his presidency, Biden pledged that addressing environmental justice would be a core component of his climate agenda and signed an executive order that launched the Justice40 Initiative, which requires agencies to deliver at least 40% of benefits from investments to overburdened communities.
☆ Opinion | Why Are So Many Girls Suffering From Anorexia?
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
She was too smart for her school. These are among the 75 explanations given by doctors, therapists and others to Hadley Freeman for her severe anorexia nervosa. Freeman, the author of a riveting new memoir, “Good Girls: A Study and Story of Anorexia,” became sick during the 1990s, but over the last few years, the incidence of anorexia, which predominantly affects preteen and teenage girls, seems to have gone up. We’ve known about anorexia for a long time. Is it related to the general increase in rates of depression and anxiety among girls?
☆ Racial Disparities are worsening disaster recovery for people of color. With climate change, things could get worse
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Lauren Lee | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
Rolling Fork, Mississippi suffered massive damage from a powerful tornado on March 24. Racial disparities existed in Rolling Fork for decades. She started I-DIEM after spending over 14 years in disaster management. Shirley Stamps stands in the rubble of her home in the aftermath of the Rolling Fork tornado. And increasingly, non-profits are doing things differently to address racial disparities in disaster management.
☆ Fact Check-Alkaline hydrolysis, or liquid cremation, does not mean human remains are ‘fed to the living'
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Alkaline hydrolysis is a form of flameless cremation where a human body can be liquified and turned into wastewater after death. An alkaline hydrolysis machine is used to perform a “bio-cremation,” (also known as aquamation or water cremation) (here). The video shows Fisher explaining how the alkaline hydrolysis machine called the Resomator works. The NFDA’s model guidelines for states to base laws governing alkaline hydrolysis can be seen (here). Experts say liquid from alkaline hydrolysis is sterilized with no trace of human DNA and is then treated at water treatment facilities before entering common households.
☆ EPA cracks down on 'forever chemicals' in tap water: What PFAS are, where they are, and why they're harmful
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
The US Environmental Protection Agency just released a proposal for enforceable standards for six PFAS compounds in drinking water. The new EPA proposal would set the threshold for those two substances at 4 nanograms per liter of drinking water. It also proposes a "hazard index" to set a limit on the combined quantity of four other PFAS in drinking water: PFNA, GenX, PFBS, and PFHxS. Communities across the US have especially high PFAS contamination in their drinking water, often due to a nearby industrial or military facility. "You can't just regulate in drinking water, without addressing the other side," Sunderland said, adding that you have to "turn off the source."
☆ How cough syrup gets poisoned
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
These medicines combine active ingredients such as paracetamol (known as acetaminophen in the United States) to reduce fever with a syrup made from glycerin or propylene glycol that is safe, sweet and easy to swallow. In Gambia, imported cough syrup for children was found by global health officials to be contaminated with two highly toxic substances: ethylene glycol (EG) and diethylene glycol (DEG). Manufacturers making propylene glycol for pharmaceutical use must purify it to remove any toxins, Kumar Koduri said. Mix-ups can happen due to human error, said Kumar Koduri. EG and DEG can cost less than half the price of propylene glycol, according to two websites selling the chemicals.
☆ The Camp Lejeune Lawsuit Racket
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Any American watching TV in recent months has seen the avalanche of trial-lawyer ads offering to represent Marines exposed to chemicals at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune. In August President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act, which provides compensation to veterans and family members exposed to toxic substances. This includes lawsuits brought by those exposed to chemicals in the water from 1953 to 1987 at Camp Lejeune. Yet even as the bill removed the government’s ability to defend against suits, it eliminated caps on trial-lawyer fees. The tort bar is now preparing to cash in, leaving Marines with little and taxpayers with a ridiculous bill.
☆ The Wild World Inside Your Gut
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Alice Callahan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +20 min
The Wild World Inside Your GutWe tackled everything from heartburn, stress, spicy foods and colon cleanses to antibiotics and more. So grab a kombucha, get comfortable and read on for everything you’ve wanted to know about the wild world inside your gut. 3 What are some simple things I can do to improve my gut health? That “really is going to have the strongest impact on our health, including gut health,” she said. (Though for general gut health, Dr. Rao said, most people living in the United States could benefit from eating fewer refined carbohydrates and more fiber.)
☆ Brazil just sank its biggest warship into the Atlantic Ocean after failing to sell it for scrap metal. The ship was big enough to carry 39 aircraft — take a look.
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
ANNA ZIEMINSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesIn March 2021, the Brazilian Navy sold the aircraft carrier as scrap to a shipyard in Turkey. But the ship was rejected by Turkish authorities as it had asbestos, a toxic material often found in 20th century ships. After circling along Brazil's coast for five months after it was rejected by Turkey, the warship was moved into international waters, Time reported. It was a controversial move: Several environmental rights organizations opposed the sinking of the ship because of the asbestos it contained. "The sinking of the aircraft carrier Sao Paulo throws tons of asbestos, mercury, lead and other highly toxic substances into the seabed," Greenpeace said in a statement, per Reuters.
☆ Fact Check-Inhaling hydrogen peroxide and iodine unsafe, and not a proven treatment for respiratory symptoms
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Topical antiseptics such as hydrogen peroxide, iodine, or a combination of the two are not safe to inhale and not proven to treat respiratory infections, contrary to social media claims that breathing in these liquids is a good idea. Still, social media users are sharing a video that claims using a nebulizer to make a vapor from a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and iodine can treat respiratory infections like sore throat. Both hydrogen peroxide and iodine solutions are used on the skin, usually to prevent infection of minor cuts and scrapes (here). Evidence from studies of accidental inhalation shows that hydrogen peroxide can damage tissue and iodine can be toxic. There is no evidence that combining hydrogen peroxide and iodine in a nebulizer will treat respiratory symptoms, and the practice is potentially damaging and toxic, experts told Reuters.
☆ 'There may be no light for a very long time': Ukrainians face a massive test of survival this winter
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
Daily life has become a test of survival for many, with basic necessities such as water, food and medical provisions becoming scarce. Kherson residents collect water at a water point in the city that has had no electricity or water since the Russian retreat on November 16, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine. Firefighters work to put out a fire at energy infrastructure facilities, damaged by Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv region, Ukraine November 15, 2022. EvacuationsUkrainian officials in parts of the country most badly affected by power shortages are warning residents of a harsh winter ahead. Residents talk with train station staff while waiting to be evacuated from Kherson on Nov. 21, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine.
☆ The US never banned asbestos. These workers are paying the price.
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Kathleen Mcgrory | Neil Bedi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +39 min
But protocols failed to match reality at the Niagara Falls plant, according to more than a dozen workers. In addition to those signature diseases, which are rare even among asbestos workers, the tiny strands can harm the body in other ways. In the 15 years that followed, congressional attempts to ban asbestos would continue to fall short. OSHA declined to make an official available for an on-the-record interview or comment on ProPublica's findings at the Niagara Falls plant. At the OxyChem plant in Wichita, union president Keith Peacock said he was comfortable with the way asbestos was handled.
☆ Sailors have long complained about jet fuel seeping into their water on US Navy aircraft carriers and other warships. Here's how that can even happen.
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
The crew of a US Navy aircraft carrier recently discovered jet fuel contaminating the water supply. In doing this, the crew has to physically connect the ship's potable water system to its fuel oil system through piping. Aligning the potable water system and the fuel system involves opening valves that are normally locked shut in order to allow the two systems to connect. The fuel system is supposed to be depressurized, and the potable system should be pressurized. "Normally, if you flush out your fuel oil tanks — or your fuel oil system, any part of your fuel oil system — you should be watching for this problem, because you've connected the two systems.
☆ Radioactive waste was found at an elementary school playground near a site where nuclear weapons were made in WWII
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A report found high levels of radioactive contamination at an elementary school in Missouri. Jana Elementary school is located near a creek that was contaminated in the 1940s and '50s. The report found radioactive contamination inside and outside the school building. Samples of soil, dust, and plant materials at the Jana Elementary School in the town of Florissant were collected in August for testing. Boston Chemical's investigation found several types of radioactive contamination were present at levels that far exceeded their expectations or acceptable levels.
☆ Biden's comment that his son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq' caught attention. Here's why he would say that.
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Some publications have seized on Joe Biden's statement that his son "lost his life in Iraq." But Biden has long tied the toxic burn pits his son was exposed to during his military service to his brain cancer. "I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Conspicuous Service Medal, and lost his life in Iraq. He said then that he became aware of the possible link while reading, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers," by Joseph Hickman. Biden said his grandson, who was seated next to the girl, lost his father "to the same burn pits."
☆ Chinese researchers clone an Arctic wolf in 'landmark' conservation project
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Cnn'S Beijing Bureau | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
"After two years of painstaking efforts, the arctic wolf was cloned successfully. The Arctic wolf, also known as the white wolf or polar wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra, in Canada's northern Arctic Archipelago. Sinogene launched its Arctic wolf cloning project in 2020, in collaboration with the polar theme park Harbin Polarland, it said in a statement posted on the Twitter-like platform Weibo. The company said in its Weibo post that a second cloned arctic wolf is expected to be born soon. The cloned Maya is now living with her beagle surrogate mother, and will later be housed in Harbin Polarland, open to the public.
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