Category: health
Health testing way down at California beaches The monitoring is at its lowest level since becoming law more than a decade ago, putting swimmers, surfers and divers at greater risk of exposure to contaminated water, a Times investigation shows. By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times August 30, 2010 Health testing of California’s beaches has slumped [...]
BP Poisoning Marine Life and Workers with Corexit! from CNN.com
BP Spill: Catastrophe, Sure. Disaster? Nah. Why hasn’t a single Gulf governor asked Obama to declare the spill a federal disaster? By Mac McClelland | Fri Aug. 13, 2010 Given the size and far-reaching devastation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, you may have assumed that it qualifies as a federal disaster. Though you’d have [...]
BP Not Denying, Just Not Paying Nearly 40,000 Oil Spill Claims BRIAN SKOLOFF AND HOLBROOK MOHR | 08/ 9/10 07:19 PM | ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Sheryl Lindsay’s wedding planner business is on the brink, crumbling with each cancellation over concerns about oil. Brides-to-be are walking away from plans for beachside vows, leaving Lindsay waiting [...]
An expedition along a muddy stretch of the waterway offers a glimpse into the potential recreational and environmental jewel running through the city.
Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well Friday 23 July 2010 by: Sara Kennedy | McClatchy Newspapers | Report Sampling operations being conducted on the research vessel Brooks McCall, near the site of the oil breach at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo: Dr. Oscar Garcia / Florida State [...]
Coast Guard Senior Chief Andrew Jaeger, right, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Tomas Kaselionis ignite oil that’s been collected inside a U-shaped length of fireproof boom — a “burn box” — in the Gulf of Mexico. (Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times / July 9, 2010) Wearing purple fireproof gloves, George Ross leaned over the side [...]
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BP Oilpocalypse Creates Underwater Nightmare from our friends at Good Morning America
Gulf oil spill: Senators disagree over liability limits May 16, 2010 | 2:20 pm Senate leaders disagreed Sunday on how hard the government should press oil companies to pay for oil spills such as BP’s well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, endorsed [...]
William McDonough and Co. are THE leaders in a much better design for long term health of our Planet. Through working in corporate world they have had a major impact on creating recyclable technology and eco-friendly work places that use bio-and techno feedback loops were waste is either eliminated or significantly reduced, increasing profits and [...]
Vitamin D Council 4/13/2010 Dear Dr. Cannell: My 71 year old mother is in the hospital diagnosed with Pseudomonas pneumonia. Because she also has COPD along with years of prednisone use, her doctors have given her only a 5% chance of survival. The hospital is against patients taking any supplements without doctors orders (they kind [...]
Drinking a litre of cola a day could reduce male fertility Men who drink about a litre or more of cola every day could be causing harm to their sperm, a study claims. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Published: 5:57PM BST 01 Apr 2010 On average, these men’s sperm counts were almost 30 per cent lower [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Blume writes in the Introduction to Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: “Various prospective publishers argued that putting all of this material into one large volume might scare off readers who just want a recipe book of how to make alcohol. They said, ‘All this history and politics is [...]
Harvard School of Public Health published a piece in December, 2007 as to why Trans Fats should be banished from the Food system. They intrinsically lead to harmful changes in blood fats, systemic inflammation, and abdominal fat (brown fat) and insulin resistance.This leads to cardiovascular death, diabetes and other chronic disease.There is no reason for [...]
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