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...while much of the environmental mercury in the U.S. comes from power plants, the other dominant source is chlor-alkali plants, which manufacture chemicals used in soaps, detergents and other products. More than 25% of the U.S. total blows in from overseas, particularly from coal-gobbling countries like China. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has proposed two bills to address those problems. One requires the eight chlor-alkali plants in the U.S. that still use mercury to convert to a less toxic alternative by 2012. The other calls for a ban on U.S. exports of mercury starting in 2010--a significant...
Benadryl, Alavert, Claritin, Chlor-Trimeton...
...curious mix of high-and low-tech treatments: a quick squirt into the nose of the biotech drug interferon, followed by two over-the-counter pills--an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) and a so-called first-generation antihistamine like chlorpheniramine (such as Chlor-Trimeton). The interferon primes the immune system to unleash its antiviral defenses while the ibuprofen and the chlorpheniramine keep the inflammatory processes under control...
...pesticides involved are hepta-chlor and chlordane. Velsicol, a subsidiary of Northwest Industries Inc., sells them to other firms, which market them under myriad brand names. They have been widely used by both farmers and homeowners against termites, fire ants and the like. According to the indictment, Velsicol, at the behest of the EPA, began studies of both chemicals in 1971 to determine what, if any, dangers they posed...
...quit work at noon, went to bed. Yet it took two more days of fever, coughing, sore throat and painful eyes before Carolyn Diehl got alarmed enough to call in another doctor. He prescribed an antibiotic (tetracycline) to guard against a second, bacterial infection, and an antihistaminic (Chlor-Trimeton), and told her to breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared a room, with three...