Toxics law protects community.
Byline: David Monk For The Register-Guard One of the ironies of our government's war on terrorism is that while we're told to fear possible chemical attacks, we're exposed daily to dangerous industrial chemicals. We're spending billions of dollars waging war around the globe and millions...

Reckoning for Roundup and Art for Tots.
A Toxic Check on Herbicides and Kids' Supplies The park our children use is routinely sprayed with the herbicide Roundup, Is that chemical safe, especially for children? --Ewa Bialkowski, San Jose, CA The Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS) lists glyphosate, Roundup s...

The solid waste dilemma: municipal liability and household hazardous waste management.
Household hazardous waste is exempted from the hazardous waste regulations imposed under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, yet municipalities that dispose of household hazardous waste into municipal landfills may still be held liable for Superfund costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Comprehension, and Liability Act (CERCLA). While federal...

The role of process and participation in the development of effective international environmental agreements: a study of the global treaty on persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
I. INTRODUCTION The number of treaties in the environmental field has grown markedly in the past thirty years,(1) as people and societies have become increasingly aware of, and concerned about, the health of the global environment. Studies of these treaties have considered a number of...

From the Backseat; What to do with old batteries?
Byline: Jesus Erle Sebastian Most vehicles use up a battery every other year, if we're lucky. With hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the country, and millions all over the world, that means countless dead car or truck batteries needing to be safely disposed of. ...

Solon pushes for enactment of Water Act.
After the enactment of the 1999 Philippine Clean Air Act, Sen. Gregorio Honasan pushed yesterday for the immediate passage into law of the Philippine Water Act which seeks to protect and safeguard the country's water resources. Honasan, vice chairman of the Senate environment committee, reiterated his proposal,...

Europe may pass electronics take-back law.
The European Parliament, the legislative branch of the EU, has initially approved two directives that will require electronics manufacturers to reduce the amount of hazardous substances in their equipment and to pay for the recycling of their products. The EU proposals are aimed at making electronics manufacturers take a...

PCBs: measuring the danger. (Technical Briefs).
Health Effects--The Known and the Unknown Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are known to cause numerous adverse health effects in animals. Some of the human studies, however, have been inconclusive. They have failed to show a link between PCB exposure and diseases, largely because epidemiologic studies have limitations that...

ToxProfiles 2003[TM] CD-ROM.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR's) ToxProfiles 2003 CD-ROM features updated toxicologic information and new navigational tools that allow the user to quickly hyperlink to important topics in the text. The information in the CD-ROM focuses on health effects from exposure to specific hazardous...

Can Globalization Survive the Export of HAZARD?
ON THE NIGHT OF DEC. 2, 1984, a storage tank at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, owned in part by the U.S.-based Union Carbide corporation, burst open, sending a cloud of poisonous methyl isocyanate gas toward the Jayaprakash Nagar shantytown that bordered the plant, and from there on...