Word: toxicants
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...mediated by other potential causes. For his part, Adams believes autism is related to exposure to mercury - a controversial charge that most research has failed to support - and, Adams says, elevated testosterone levels are linked to the depletion of glutathione, a substance in the body that protects it from toxic metals. "So Baron-Cohen's work ties in with the mercury hypothesis," Adams says...
...Bernanke suggest creating a huge "bad bank" to own the toxic asset that are on the balance sheets of America's largest financial companies. There is some precedent for that from the savings and loan catastrophe two decades...
...always more PR than reality - currently there's no economical way to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal, and many experts doubt there ever will be. But now the idea of clean coal might be truly dead, buried beneath the 1.1 billion gallons of water mixed with toxic coal ash that on Dec. 22 burst through a dike next to the Kingston coal plant in the Tennessee Valley and blanketed several hundred acres of land, destroying nearby houses. The accident - which released 100 times more waste than the Exxon Valdez disaster - has polluted the waterways of Harriman, Tenn., with...
...reality, we can't really talk about clean coal - it doesn't exist. Though the coal industry is right to point out that it has improved filters on coal plants, sending less traditional pollutants like sulfur dioxide and mercury into the air, the toxic waste that remains behind is only growing. The biggest advantage of coal power has been cost - in most cases, it remains much cheaper than cleaner alternatives like wind, solar or natural gas. But the cheapness of coal depends on the fact that external costs - climate change, or the health impacts of air and water pollution from...
Thirdhand smoke n.--The toxic residue from tobacco smoke that remains after a cigarette is extinguished...