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...1950s--"Better living through chemistry," "Atoms for peace"--have a darker connotation today. Du Pont, which invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context of skepticism toward science that some reasonable questions have been raised lately about genetically modified foods...
...fate of the Clemenceau - doomed, perhaps, to sail the seas perpetually like a modern Flying Dutchman - has shed a harsh light on the practice of decommissioning ships. Older vessels, in particular, present a devil's brew of toxins, from asbestos insulation of engines and decks to pcbs, acids and heavy metals in paints and coatings. The problem concerns more than just military craft. The 1960s and '70s were boom years for commercial shipping in European countries, and as those ships age, the need to decommission them has expanded: almost four times as much tonnage was scrapped last year...
...traditional Japanese diets, are high in omega-3 fatty acids from fish. The North American diet is not. I have long recommended that people in the U.S. eat more fish?at least two servings a week?but I have been concerned lately about reports of increasing levels of mercury, PCBS and other contaminants in certain fish species. In my diet I stick to sardines, herring, Alaskan black cod and Alaskan sockeye salmon. All sockeye (red) salmon are wild?fish farmers haven't yet been able to domesticate them?and since those fish are less carnivorous than other types of salmon...
...According to the EPA, the soil on the Arsenal’s premises and the nearby park were laden with “pesticides, PCBs, heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and ‘poly-aromatic hydrocarbons’” like benzene and other carcinogens...
...most incendiary environmental issue, dredging the Hudson of PCBs, GE lobbyists have been unrelenting. One of them, Roger France, is the former chief of staff to Representative Charles Taylor, who received $8,250 from GE for his 2004 re-election. At the company's request, the North Carolina Republican inserted language in a spending bill calling for the National Academy of Sciences to study PCB-contaminated sites and produce a new cost-benefit analysis of dredging, which critics say GE could use to curtail the Hudson cleanup. GE has long insisted that the prudent course of action on the Hudson...