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Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist : news. Adolf Hitler showing symptoms of amphetamine use. : tooktoomuch. Here are more than 300 bases with possible toxic 'forever chemical’ contamination. Hundreds of military installations have either known or likely water contamination caused by runoff from firefighting foam used in response to vehicle and aircraft accidents, according to the Environmental Working Group.

Here are more than 300 bases with possible toxic 'forever chemical’ contamination

Using Defense Department data, the organization built an interactive map of 305 sites, which are found in all 50 states. 2014 Pesticide Use Maps - Chemicals and Toxics Topics. Pesticides Chemical Search. Electronic Reading Room: Science Reviews Previously Released under FOIA The Office of Pesticide Programs evaluates scientific data submitted by pesticide registrants in support of pesticide registration to assess potential human health and environmental effects.

Pesticides Chemical Search

These studies are conducted with active ingredients, inert ingredients, and product formulations in accordance with EPA guidelines, and generally fall under the subject areas of toxicology, environmental fate and groundwater, ecological effects, residue chemistry, product chemistry, and efficacy. These evaluations are called science reviews or data evaluation records (DERs). New pesticide indices, with their science review documents, are being added regularly to the FOIA Reading Room. The MSDS HyperGlossary: Trade Secret. Definition.

The MSDS HyperGlossary: Trade Secret

What's In My Neighborhood? Agricultural Interactive Mapping. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is the lead agency for response to, and cleanup of agricultural chemical contamination in Minnesota.

What's In My Neighborhood? Agricultural Interactive Mapping

The MDA has tracked spills of agricultural chemicals and sites contaminated with agricultural chemicals since the late 1970's. The data in this collection contains information on known and potential sources of agricultural chemical soil and ground water contamination. For the purpose of mapping these incidents, the MDA has categorized them into three categories 1.

Old Emergencies, 2. Small Spills and Investigations, and 3. Old Emergencies: This dataset contains points and attributes for MDA Agricultural Chemical Incident Response Unit investigations which were closed prior to March 1, 2004. February 27, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 9. [+]Enlarge Consumer products containing the 10 chemicals being evaluated by EPA for potential risks are easy to purchase, environmental advocates claim.

February 27, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 9

Credit: Environmental Defense Fund No one, not even the Environmental Protection Agency, knows how many chemicals are in use today. EPA has more than 85,000 chemicals listed on its inventory of substances that fall under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Major Group 28: Chemicals And Allied Products. This major group includes establishments producing basic chemicals, and establishments manufacturing products by predominantly chemical processes.

Major Group 28: Chemicals And Allied Products

Agricultural Contaminants. Over the last 100 years, agricultural expansion and intensification has led to changes in water quality and the health of stream ecosystems.

Agricultural Contaminants

Considerable increases in fertilizer and pesticide use began in the 1960s. In 2010, about 11 billion kilograms of nitrogen fertilizer and 300 million kilograms of pesticides were used annually to enhance crop production or control pests. Download Free Toxic Chemical Pollution Maps. Sponsors Community pollution maps Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites AirNow Air Quality Maps EPA AirData Maps and Reports.

Download Free Toxic Chemical Pollution Maps

Global Pollution Map. Pollution Locator: USA. Over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released by industry into the nation's environment each year, including 72 million pounds of recognized carcinogens.

Pollution Locator: USA

Scorecard can give you a detailed report on chemicals being released from any of 20,000 industrial facilities, or a summary report for any area in the country. Scorecard spotlights the top polluters in the U.S., and ranks states and counties by pollutant releases. Provide your zipcode to get a report for your community, or use the Pollution Locator to search for reports on specific areas. To zoom in to your state's report, click on the map below. United States. Interactive Map: PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 1,398 Sites in 49 States.

For water systems that had one or more detection of PFOS, PFOA or another contaminant, an average was calculated using the all samples collected.

Interactive Map: PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 1,398 Sites in 49 States

Samples with no detections were treated as zero when calculating the average, which in turn may skew the value lower when the contaminant is more common. All locations represented on the map are approximate, and meant to visualize the general area of a contamination site or public water detection. Air Data: Air Quality Data Collected at Outdoor Monitors Across the US. The AirData Air Quality Monitors app is a mapping application available on the web and on mobile devices that displays monitor locations and monitor-specific information.

It also allows the querying and downloading of data daily and annual summary data. Map layers include: State and Substate Estimates of Any Mental Illness from the 2012–2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. 9. In this report, state estimates are discussed in terms of their observed rankings because they provide useful context. However, a state having a highest or lowest rate does not imply that the state's rate is significantly higher or lower than the rate of the next highest or lowest state. Similarly, the quintiles were not selected to represent statistical differences across quintiles or to correspond to proximity to a target public health threshold for a particular measure. For example, the division of states into quintiles does not indicate that states in the same quintile are statistically similar to each other.

Deficit of corpus callosum axons, reduced axon diameter and decreased area are markers of abnormal development of interhemispheric connections in autistic subjects. Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism Concerns. The Environmental Protection Agency Keeps Approving Dangerous Chemicals. In 2009, DuPont touted the chemical produced at its plant along North Carolina’s Cape Fear River as a new, safer alternative to the dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that were behind health crises in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and scores of other communities.

But in the decade after the Environmental Protection Agency approved the chemical, called GenX, for commercial use, high levels accumulated in the river, a drinking water source for about 250,000 people. Thyroid cancer rates in the region spiked along with reports of rare pediatric cancers, leukemia and bladder cancer, according to Clean Cape Fear, an environmental advocacy group. WSU researchers see popular herbicide affecting health across generations. By Eric Sorensen, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – First, the good news. Washington State University researchers have found that a rat exposed to a popular herbicide while in the womb developed no diseases and showed no apparent health effects aside from lower weight. Now, the weird news. The grand-offspring of that rat did have more disease, as did a great-grand offspring third generation. “The third generation had multiple diseases and much more frequently than the third generation of unexposed rats,” said Michael Skinner, a Washington State University professor of biological sciences.

The Papers – The Poison Papers. The “Poison Papers” represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back to the 1920s. Taken as a whole, the papers show that both industry and regulators understood the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products and worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press. These papers will transform our understanding of the hazards posed by certain chemicals on the market and the fraudulence of some of the regulatory processes relied upon to protect human health and the environment.

Even moderate drinking could harm the brain. Heavy drinking can lead to a number of serious health problems, including increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and dementia, but consuming even moderate levels of alcohol could be dangerous, as well, new research suggests. Millions of Americans Are Drinking Contaminated Water—and Don't Even Know It. Gut microbial degradation of organophosphate insecticides-induces glucose intolerance via gluconeogenesis. Human survey. UN experts denounce 'myth' pesticides are necessary to feed the world. The idea that pesticides are essential to feed a fast-growing global population is a myth, according to UN food and pollution experts. Scientists categorize Earth as a 'toxic planet' Study of fracking in four states uncovers over 6,600 spills.

The Dirty Fight Over Canadian Tar Sands Oil. Top Neuroscientist Explains How Big Pharma’s Adderall Is Essentially Crystal Meth. Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for six million Americans. Drinking water samples near industrial sites, military fire training areas, wastewater treatment plants have highest levels of fluorinated compounds For immediate release: August 9, 2016. TSCA Inventory of Chemical Substances. By admin on 2015-12-30 Views: 2598 Update:2016-01-14. Neuropsychological Performance in Long-term Cannabis Users. Meet the ‘rented white coats’ who defend toxic chemicals. The Methiest States In The U.S. (INFOGRAPHIC) Meth%20and%20Child%20Safety. How effective is drug addiction treatment? Illicit money: how much is out there? The Real Afghanistan Surge is in Heroin Production and Tripled Opium Cultivation since the US military arrived/ UN and US Government documents Washington's Blog.

The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade. Illicit money: how much is out there? Countries That Have Better Drug Laws Than the United States. Forbes Welcome. Forbes Welcome. Five Pharmaceutical Companies Sued in Response to Opioid Addiction Epidemic. How the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Making Money on Your Overdose. How the American opiate epidemic was started by one pharmaceutical company. Making Money from Addiction: 30 Million Americans On Antidepressants. Twenty Facts on America’s Big Pharma Nightmare.

Big Pharma: Are They Advertising Addiction? Pharmaceutical Statistics. Attorney General Pam Bondi says Florida's pill mill doctors are gone. ‘Uncle Teddy’ trial: Pharmacists testify Irmo doctor’s Oxycodone orders were high. American Pain: The Largest U.S. Pill Mill's Rise and Fall - Businessweek. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) How prescription drug abuse costs you money - Feb. 24, 2012. FastStats - Therapeutic Drug Use. Popping Pills: Prescription Drug Abuse in America. Physicians testified for tobacco companies against plaintiffs with cancer, Stanford study finds : Top Headlines : MD News Daily. Toxic Pollution and schools - Latest Toxic Release Inventory TRI Google Maps - EPA Risk Management Plans. ATSDR – Priority List of Hazardous Substances.

Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program. Chemical Substances - CAS REGISTRY. Toxic Pollution and schools - Latest Toxic Release Inventory TRI Google Maps - EPA Risk Management Plans. Regulated Chemicals Information. TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory. Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program. TRI and Superfund Environmental Maps.