Touted as our next Industrial Revolution, the use of nano particles continues to sweep across the global business world like the high tech tsunami it is.
Inventions and new applications fly off laboratory benches and out of clean rooms faster than patents can be filed or danger to public health even assessed.
Globally, sales of nano-based products [...]
Years ago, long before it became a marketing ploy to call everything “green,” the Environmental Protection Agency described, what it called, a green dream.
It was where millions and millions of pounds of useless tires were recycled into tire crumbs or tiny shreds and used to cover playgrounds and athletic fields to reduce injuries from falls [...]
Home much liquid did you consume today? Was it clean? Will you become ill, spawn a deformed child, get cancer, die a lingering death?
In an attempt to head off some of the pithy comments accusing me of being a fear monger, let me admit that, in this case, I am.
I don’t think most of us [...]
Those living beside the chemical plants in the small towns along West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley can breathe a bit easier and maybe sleep a little better.
Bayer CropScience announced that it eliminate 80 percent of the of the country’s largest stockpile of methyl isocyanate.
Ken Ward, the skillful environmental reporter for the Charleston Gazette, writes that Bayer [...]
One might think that a food-shipping container coated with nanoparticles that have been proven to destroy bacteria causing illness and death would be a coveted innovation.
Apparently not so.
William Norwood, president of nanoAgri Systems, said the Environmental Protection Agency told him that he wasn’t permitted to market his company’s new nanosilver, antibacterial packaging.
“This just doesn’t make [...]
The greatest danger from living near a highway may not be from the traffic, but from the air that you breathe.
With more than 35 million people in the United States living within 300 feet of a major road, the Environmental Protection Agency says it has growing concerns about the health impacts from roadway air pollutants.
No [...]
A Cold Truth Special Report
SPOKANE, Wash. – It was a strange sight. Two people dressed head-to-toe in protective Tyvek and full-face respirators, carrying a stainless steel bowl and a dirt scoop as they weaved through tomato plants, ducked under heavy, cherry-laden branches and crawled around a collection of gigantic plastic yard toys.
Raymond Wu and Jennifer [...]
Charles Dickens was writing a tale of two cities. But his words – that “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times’’ – perfectly describe the tale of one this week.
After nearly a decade of fighting for and failing to get emergency help for the people poisoned by asbestos-contaminated vermiculite in [...]
Silver nanoparticles, untested for safety, are being used in a growing number of children’s toys, babies’ bottles, cosmetics, dishwashers, underwear and hundreds of other items.
A report issued today says that consumers and workers who make the products may be at risk.
The report, authored by Friends of the Earth and Health Care Without Harm Europe, details [...]
People in Libby, Mont. are through licking their wounds and are working to put the acquittal earlier this month of W.R. Grace and its executives behind them.
But many say they live in fear that the innocent verdict offered up by the jury will give the former owner of the asbestos-contaminated vermiculite mine the chutzpa to [...]
