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A really bad piece of 2021 legislation in Virginia – ‘Advanced Recycling’
The 2021 Virginia legislature passed a really bad compromise piece of “environmental” legislation. They swapped a styrofoam ban for extremely polluted air, water, and land. Instead of…
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Is the Incinerator inevitable?
Will Landfill Planning Doom Stafford and Fredericksburg to an Incinerator? On May 27, 2014, the Free Lance-Star published an article by Vanessa Remmers titled “Landfill Facing $228K Shortfall”. Current landfill revenue…
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R-Board Meeting 5/21 – Correction of Comments made by Some R-Board members
At today’s meeting, the R-Board discussed moving forward with the RFP to award a contract to some as-yet-unknown company. After the Public Presentations, some statements were made by Board…
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Incinerators – The Dirty Truth
Facts Rule Out Trash Gasification (Including pyrolysis, plasma arc, and other variations of staged incineration) – Clean Water Action [and Don’t Waste Massachusetts, Energy Justice, EcoCycle and the Global…
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Health Problems Caused by Ultra-Fine & Nano-Sized Air Particulates
The Deadliest Air Pollution Isn’t Being Regulated or Even Measured – Peter Montague – Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #915 7/12/07 http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/ht070712.htm#The_Deadliest_Air_Pollution_Isnt_Being_Regulated_or_Even_Measured C. Vyvyan Howard MB. ChB. PhD. FRCPath.:…
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Links to Health Problems Caused by Incinerators
Congressional Briefing: Human Health Effects of Biomass Incinerators – Save America’s Forests 9/25/12 http://www.saveamericasforests.org/Forests%20-%20Incinerators%20-%20Biomass/Documents/Briefing/index.html Second Opinion: The Medical…
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Links between fracking & smog pollution
A story posted by the Texas Observer cites research conducted by a student at the University of North Texas suggests that pollution from fracking contributes a much larger…
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Dangerous Dioxins
http://sciencetranslation.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/dangerous-dioxins/ Discover the molecular structure of dioxins and benzene. Lizzie Caldwell reports that benzene and dioxins are both cancerous. In fact, the benzene molecule is present in…
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Air Toxicants, Impact of Benzene Exposure On Bone Marrow
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/publichealthtoxicology/PDFs/Lecture11_Trush.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ See a detailed analysis of the effects of benzene on a cellular level (slide 29). Exposure can cause a number of bone marrow diseases. Johns…
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Material Safety Data Sheet on Tire-Derived Oil – Ouch!
http://www.conradind.com/pi_tire_derived_oil_msds.asp OSHA requires chemical reporting on potentially hazardous materials through Material Safety Data Sheets. The MSDA on tire-derived oil reveals a nasty list of the hazardous effects…
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