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The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future

Book by Bruce E. Johansen; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Organochlorine Compounds--Environmental Aspects, Organochlorine Compounds--Health Aspects, Persistent Pollutants--Environmental Aspects, Persistent Pollutants--Health Aspects

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...organochlorine pesticides (DDT, chlordane, mirex...well as the super-toxic di- oxins and furans...such as the pesticide DDT, which was first synthesized...daily intakes for toxic POPs in food, as set...toxicologists), such as DDT, dioxins, and PCBS...worse posi- tion for toxic pollution, as a ring...
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Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts

Book by Peter H. Schuck; Belknap-Harvard University Press, 1987

Subjects:

Dow Chemical Company--Trials, Litigation, Etc, Products Liability--Agent Orange--United States, Reutershan, Paul--D. 1978--Trials, Litigation, Etc, Trials (Products Liability)--United States

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...successful -- against DDT and certain other...committed to subduing toxic chemicals in the interest...pessimistic evaluation: "A toxic tort is like being...to society in the DDT litigation, and I...step by step the DDT litigation of the...class action in a mass toxic tort case of national...
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Contaminated Communities: The Social and Psychological Impacts of Residential Toxic Exposure

Book by Michael R. Edelstein; Westview Press, 1988

Subjects:

Environmental Health--Psychological Aspects, Environmental Health--Social Aspects, Indoor Air Pollution--Psychological Aspects, Indoor Air Pollution--Social Aspects, Pollutants--Environmental Aspects, Pollution--Environmental Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...and Psychological Impacts of Residential Toxic Exposure Michael R. Edelstein Ramapo...Wandersman, "Community Dynamics in Coping with Toxic Exposure," in Irwin Altman and Abraham...1986 by JES ; Michael R. Edelstein, "Toxic Exposure and the Inversion of the Home...
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Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries

Book by Jennifer Clapp; Cornell University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Globalization, Hazardous Wastes--Developing Countries, Hazardous Wastes--Transportation

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In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialised countries has emerged as a routine practice. Clapp describes the responses of those engaged in hazard transfer.
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Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma

Book by Harold C. Barnett; University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Subjects:

Environmental Policy--United States, Hazardous Waste Sites--Cleaning--Finance--Government Policy--United States, United States--Environmental Protection Agency

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The passage of Superfund into law on the eve of Ronald Reagan's election as president of the United States set in motion two diametrically opposed forces: a legislative mandate to commit billions of dollars to the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and a White House- interpreted mandate to get government off the backs of people.

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The Regulation of DDT: A Choice between Evils

Journal article by Ashley K. Martin; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 41, 2008

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Laws, regulations and rules, DDT--Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Malaria--Control

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...United States, the use of DDT waned internationally...worldwide; therefore, DDTs toxic image coupled with Americas...alternatives that are less toxic than DDT exist to replace it...Regulate DDT The concern over toxic chemicals--and DDT specifically--has not...
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DDT and Breast Cancer in Young Women: New Data on the Significance of Age at Exposure

Journal article by Barbara A. Cohn, Mary S. Wolff, Piera M. Cirillo, Robert I. Sholtz; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, 2007

Subjects:

Age factors in disease--Evaluation, Breast cancer--Risk factors, Cancer research--Reports, Cancer--Reports, Cancer--Research, DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT--Health aspects, Disease age factors--Evaluation, Oncology, Experimental--Reports

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...simulate in vivo conditions because humans are exposed chronically over a long period to mixtures of p,p-DDT and its metabolites, including toxic metabolites other than p,p-DDE. The median blood levels of DDT-related compounds we found in the present...
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Shifting the Experiment to the Lab: Does EPA Have a Mandatory Duty to Require Chemical Testing for Endocrine Disruption Effects under the Toxic Substances Control Act?

Journal article by Holly E. Pettit; Environmental Law, Vol. 30, 2000

Subjects:

Chemicals--Research, Endocrine gland diseases--Analysis, Human reproduction--Endocrine aspects, Toxic Substances Control Act, United States. Environmental Protection Agency--Powers and duties

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...a history of discovering the toxic effects of particular chemicals...contaminated with estrogen-mimics DDT and PCB include an increasing...much of that ignorance. The Toxic Substances Control Acts existing...purposes and goals of the nations toxic chemical control laws. When...
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Upsetting the Balance between Adverse Interests: The Impact of the Supreme Court's Trilogy on Expert Testimony in Toxic Tort Litigation

Journal article by Margaret A. Berger; Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 64, 2001

Subjects:

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.--509 U.S. 579 (1993), Evidence (Law)--Standards, Evidence, Expert--Usage, Joiner v. General Electric Co.--78 F.3d 524 (11th Cir. 1996), Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael--526 U.S. 137 (1999), Toxic torts--Laws, regulations, etc.

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...approach to determining the correct evidentiary rules to apply in toxic torts). (79.) See, e.g., NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, HORMONALLY...presented a study of effects of substances, such as PCBs, dioxin, DDT, and DES done at the request of Congress, EPA, DOI, and the U...
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Northern Lights against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic

Journal article by Ewa Dabrowska; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 48, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Northern Lights Against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic (Book)--Book reviews

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Northern Lights against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic. by Ewa Dabrowska by David Leonard...the risks to human health arising from POPs (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, diel-drin, dioxins, endrin, furans, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene...

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Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT: The Toxic War against a Global Disease

Magazine article by Anne Platt Mcginn; World Watch, Vol. 15, May 2002

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Control, Pesticides--Usage

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Malaria, mosquitoes, and DDT: the toxic war against a global disease by Anne Platt McGinn...that lends itself to control. But the routine use of DDT against malaria is an exercise in toxic futility, especially when its pursued at the expense...
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Better Living through Chemistry: DDT Could Save Millions of Africans from Dying of Malaria-If Only Environmentalists Would Let It

Magazine article by Alexander Gourevitch; Washington Monthly, Vol. 35, March 2003

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, Malaria--Safety and security measures

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...popular conception of DDT is of a dangerous and toxic chemical that pollutes...single application of DDT remained toxic for up to a year, which...death or human harm by DDT that Carson related...in some other, highly toxic, substance, such as...
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One Cheer for DDT? Forty Years after Silent Spring, Resurgent Malaria Gives New Life to an Old Killer

Magazine article by Stephen Bocking; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 30, September 2004

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Laws, regulations and rules, DDT--Laws, regulations and rules, Malaria--Causes of, Pesticides--Influence, Pesticides--Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides--Risk factors

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...closing the door forever on a toxic substance is much more satisfying...1970s, when many countries banned DDT, ending an era when the stuff...times do change. Fifty years ago, DDT was being sprayed by the tonne...that certain substances are too toxic to be permitted anywhere may...
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Africa's Other Deadly Plague: Malaria Kills One Child under Age 5 Every 30 Seconds. DDT Stops the Disease, but Environmentalists Still Oppose It, despite That Controlled Use Seems Harmless to Humans

Magazine article by Tom Carter; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 5, 2002

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, Infants--Mortality, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Biological control

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...in humans. However, these findings have not been duplicated by independent researchers, despite several tries. "DDT is less toxic than aspirin," says Ronald Rosenberg, who has spent the last 25 years running tropical disease laboratories for the...
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Killer Regulations

Magazine article by Ed Rubenstein; National Review, Vol. 41, November 24, 1989

Subjects:

California. Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, Consumer protection--Economic aspects, Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards--Economic aspects, DDT (Insecticide)--Laws, regulations and rules, DDT--Laws, regulations and rules, Product liability--Economic aspects, Products liability--Economic aspects, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Laws, regulations and rules

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...throughout the world. And the newer pesticides are considerably more toxic to man: in 1985 the number of accidental poisoning incidents involving pesticides was 14 per cent higher than it was in 1973 when DDT was in use, according to a study published in the American Journal...

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Use of DDT Urged in Malaria Fight

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...environmentalists think that DDT is bad. ... DDT is about as toxic as coffee," he said, referring to numerous studies showing that DDT, although it is highly toxic to some animals, such as birds, is not toxic to...
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DDT: Malaria's Answer in Africa? 2 Million Die Each Year from Disease

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 16, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...research team actually fed a man 35 milligrams (0.001 ounces) of DDT a day for two years, with no ill effects. "DDT is less toxic than aspirin," said Ronald Rosenberg, who spent the past 25 years running tropical disease laboratories for the U...
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DDT for West Nile

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 16, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...so mosquitoes spend less time in areas where DDT has been applied. This still reduces mosquito-human contact. DDT is also less toxic to humans than the alternative chemicals. That should be a boon to those who believe they are sickened by the spraying...
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WHO Backs DDT to Rid Malaria; Pesticide Gets 'Clean Bill of Health'; Use Urged to Save Africans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2006

Subjects:

World Health Organization

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...said more study is required. "We do not feel the product is toxic, but we want to take all necessary precautions," said Dr. Pierre...and 2006, but very little of that money has gone to purchase DDT, which is currently made only in India and China. Dr. Kochi said...
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TOXIC CHEMICALS ARE FOUND IN SCOTS RIVER; Exclusive Eels Carry Outlawed Pesticide

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 19, 2006

Subjects:

Pesticides--Environmental aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

TOXIC CHEMICALS ARE FOUND IN SCOTS RIVER...river. The gender-bending pesticide DDT was discovered in creatures in the River...eat the eels. He said: "Although the DDT appears to be at low level, I would...not eat them. "One of the things about DDT is that it not only persists for a long...

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Ddt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1939) DDTs insecticidal properties. DDT, however, is toxic to many animals, including humans...eagle and the osprey. Nevertheless, DDT use continues in parts of the world...Pollutants called for the phasing out of DDT once a cost-effective alternative...
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Tropical Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...eradicate the malaria-carrying mosquito, has been found to have lingering toxic effects in the environment, and the persistent use of DDT in China for rice pests has produced DDT-resistant mosquitoes that now carry malaria. Resistance of the malarial...
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Pesticide

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tends to increase the higher the animal is in the food chain. DDT , for example, severely reduced the rate of reproduction in many...especially for infants, whose systems may not be able to convert toxic chemicals into harmless substances as readily as adult systems...
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Water Pollution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...nervous disorders. Some contaminants are carcinogens. DDT is toxic to humans and can alter chromosomes. PCBs cause liver...shellfish can no longer be taken because of contamination by DDT, sewage, or industrial wastes. Dysentery , salmonellosis...
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Pollution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...synthetic fertilizers, synthetic organic pesticides such as DDT, synthetic industrial chemicals such as the polychlorinated biphenyls...Survival (1966) and The Closing Circle (1971); M. H. Brown, The Toxic Cloud (1987); C. S. Silver, One Earth, One Future (1988...

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