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Environment

Rocket fuel, Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals Swirl in America's Troubled Waters (Video)

By Harry Hanbury, American News Project. Posted May 26, 2008.


Polluters dump about 240 million pounds of toxins into our waterways each year, and the effects on our environment could be disastrous.

Polluters dump about 240 million pounds of toxins into our waterways each year, and the long-term effects on human health and the environment could be disastrous. Thirty five years after the Clean Water Act became law, the American News Project explores why our fish are changing sex and our water contains rocket fuel, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. Watch the video to the right.


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Harry Hanbury is senior producer for the American News Project.

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Rocket fuel, Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals Swirl in America's Troubled Waters.
Posted by: flymulla on May 26, 2008 3:34 AM   
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Rocket fuel, Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals Swirl in America's Troubled Waters.
The lady in the video is very clear about the statement, we have open chequebook for this, for that but not for our environments. In fact, the wars have left not the public but itself broke. Let us assume this is not true. Let us look at the refund made to the taxpayer from the amount of 300 to 600 dollars and told to spend on the domestic products and no choice. This clearly means the money ought not to go out but stay in America. Are the hypotheses correct that the wars have cracked the stitches of the wallets of all? Simple. We have no cash in pockets and we cannot ask anyone for any more cash. The help that was given by Uncle Sam to many is out. He does not have any money now. To add to this the drama of election that is murky and laughter to all is no fun.
I thank you
Firozali A. Mulla MBA PhD
P.O.Box 6044
Dar-Es-Salaam
Tanzania
East Africa

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all that poluution is god
Posted by: bitsfick on May 26, 2008 4:12 AM   
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punshing us ons for letin them queers get marrid in fer the gumint taken ma guns ifn it wernt fer that chem plant lullabel in ma 12 youngins why weed a be a starving

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» Yahweh does not punish like that. Posted by: rafaeltoral
» awesome. Posted by: rafaeltoral
environmental laws
Posted by: tommyjonq on May 26, 2008 4:55 AM   
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nixon got every one of his environmental laws through a hostile democratic congress—except a clean water act. then carter failed. then clinton failed. (reagan, bush, and bush don't count. they didn't try.) where's tricky dick when you need him? talk about throwing the bath water out with the baby.

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Seriously
Posted by: Nicnic on May 26, 2008 6:53 AM   
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Welcome to fascism folks. This is what it looks like and these are its trappings. The transparency of this jerk is stunning beyond belief. He is a corporate plant in a high level position and just one of the horde that is part of a complete invasion of our government and military. But don't be fooled by the dog and pony show put on by Congress. They are of course as much of the problem as anything or anyone.

But the problem is much worse than just a bunch of sick demented folks running our affairs. The real problem is you're going to find you're powerless, broke and without the liberties necessary to sustain or even battle for the kind of life you had or hoped it would be. Your greed and ignorance, and outright neglect of the Constitution and its humanitarian spirit has resulted in the destruction of our country. It's been one big air-conditioned buffalo hunt for you. You've been as easy to manipulate as a child craving sugar. You are no different than the farm animals you abuse to the detriment of all reason and sanity, human and environmental concerns, and spiritual affairs. The irony is you are also farmed and harvested, and you're completely blind to it because your too busy getting your own to help anyone else or to help this great nation. Your fate has been sealed just like that of this great nation.

You are now entering the period where you'll discover that your world can't be made right any longer by merely flushing the toilet.

And when you're chained to the wall in some dungeon without any hope of due process you'll put it all together and silently mutter "SO THAT'S HOW THEY GOT AWAY WITH 9/11."

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» a bullet for breakfast. Posted by: ptown
» RE: a bullet for breakfast. Posted by: helenwheels
» RE:naughty nicnic Posted by: wittler youth
Another thing most folks don't know about
Posted by: helenwheels on May 26, 2008 8:55 AM   
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"The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats about 1,000 miles west of California, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, delicate and remote to ever be cleaned up, according to a researcher who recently returned from the area.

But that might not stop the federal government from trying.

Charles Moore, the marine researcher at the Algalita Marina Research Foundation in Long Beach, Calif., who has been studying and publicizing the patch for the past 10 years, said the debris -- which he estimates weighs 3 million tons and covers an area twice the size of Texas -- is made up mostly of fine plastic chips and is impossible to skim out of the ocean.

"Any attempt to remove that much plastic from the oceans -- it boggles the mind," Moore said from Hawaii, where his crew is docked. "There's just too much, and the ocean is just too big."

Read it here: Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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MTBE
Posted by: frantaylor on May 26, 2008 1:55 PM   
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Don't forget about MTBE.

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» What is MTBE? Posted by: Cathyc
» RE: What is MTBE? Posted by: Lazylight
War
Posted by: EJW on May 26, 2008 2:08 PM   
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The biggest cause of pollution world wide is War. War and the vast money pit that drives war. The Military gives no thought to pollution and is exempt to all environmental laws. Until we put down our weapons and pursue PEACE there can be no sustainable human life.

Just try to imagine a tank run on solar or a rifle with biodegradable ammunition?

We as citizens of the planet can all go solar or.... and it will not help until governments around the world 'practise what they preach'.

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I've said it before
Posted by: sre on May 26, 2008 3:34 PM   
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Nothing's wrong children, go back to sleep. It'll all be better in the morning. Uncle Sam says so.

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Embalming Waste
Posted by: fg on May 26, 2008 8:17 PM   
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Removal of Embalming Waste from Sanitary
Sewers Needs Support

The Westfield [New Jersey] Leader, June 11, 1998

New Jersey State Senator Louis Kosco is this session sponsoring a bill (Senate Bill No. 298) which “would require that human blood and
pathological waste, including tissues, organs and body parts and fluids which are removed during embalming be treated as regulated medical waste under the Comprehensive Regulated Medical Waste Act,” thus ending the
practice of discharging ex-corpore materials into sanitary sewers.

Given the compromised state of sanitary and storm sewer systems in our state’s older municipalities, contents of the sanitary sewers have been known to find their way into the storm sewers, even here in town. And storm
sewers may flow as aboveground streams and into ponds where children play.

In the 1996 legislative session, a bill similar to Senator Kosco’s (Assembly Bill No. 2363) was sponsored by Assemblyman Paul DiGaetano and cosponsored by Assemblyman Richard H. Bagger. Despite the obvious urgency
of the problem addressed, that bill failed to pass into law.

The public would do well, I think, to press our elected representatives in Trenton to adopt Senator Kosco’s bill before the current legislative sessionwinds down.

Dr. Ferdinand Gajewski
Westfield

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