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  • Secondhand Smoke Featured Article Secondhand Smoke Secondhand Smoke (Pollution Prevention)
    Health Effects of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Did You Know? 11% of children aged 6 years and under are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in their homes on a regular... More »
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    Click this link to view larger image Solar Sail Stunner In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric... More »
  • Animal Agriculture and the Environment Featured Article Animal Agriculture and the Environment Animal Agriculture and the Environment
    Animal production industries have seen substantial changes over the past several decades, the result of domestic/export market forces and technological changes. The number of... More »
  • Acid sulfate soils Featured Article Acid sulfate soils Acid sulfate soils
    Main source: K.Ljung, F.Maley, A.Cook & P.Weinstein. Acid sulfate soils and human health. A Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Environment International 35 (8), 1234-1242.... More »
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    Where There’s Smoke, There’s Disease. This article, written by Tina Adler*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectives—the peer-reviewed, open access... More »
  • Living in a contaminated world Featured Article Living in a contaminated world Living in a contaminated world
    Humankind is now in its third generation since the chemical revolution—circa 1940. The myriad dimensions and implications of this worldwide phenomenon and its actual and... More »
  • Flue gas desulfurization Featured Article Flue gas desulfurization Flue gas desulfurization
    Flue gas desulfurization is commonly known as FGD and is the technology used for removing sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the exhaust combustion flue gases of power plants that... More »
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WasteLagoon USDA-TerryMatheny.jpg Animal Agriculture and the Environment Last Updated on 2014-11-15 14:53:25 Animal production industries have seen substantial changes over the past several decades, the result of domestic/export market forces and technological changes. The number of large operations has increased, and animal and feed production are increasingly separated in terms of both management and geography. Concern that these changes are harming the environment has prompted local, State, and Federal policies and programs to control pollution from animal production facilities. Changes in the structure of livestock and poultry production are behind many of the current concerns about animals and the environment. Structural changes have been driven by both innovation and economies of scale. Organizational innovations, such as production contract arrangements, enable growers to access the capital necessary to adopt innovative technologies and garner economies of size in their efforts... More »
Beijing-Air-Pollution--011.jpg Pollution (Pollution Prevention) Last Updated on 2014-11-09 17:40:04 Pollution is environmental contamination that results in harm or death to living organisms. Most pollution is in the form of chemical additions to air, water or soil; however, in modern times starting in the mid-twentieth century noise and light have been considered as pollution sources. Most pollution is man-made, with natural fluctuations in atmospheric composition, surface water bodies and soil considered temporal gyrations in the Earth's natural history. The chief driver of pollution is the massive growth in human population, which induces the proximate causes of intensive agriculture and extraordinary industrial output. The United Nations and the Blacksmith Institute[1] are two prominent organisations that tabulate locales of the greatest pollution intensity; while their listings do not correspond precisely, the overlap countries that both entities agree are the worst polluted... More »
ContentImg.jpg Public Health Statement for 1,1-Dichloroethene Last Updated on 2013-09-30 00:58:32 This article is a verbatim version of the original and is not available for edits or additions by EoE editors or authors. Companion articles on the same topic that are editable may exist within the EoE. May 1994 En Español CAS#: 75-35-4 This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological profile for 1,1-Dichoroethene. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQs™, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This Statement was prepared to give you information about... More »
ContentImg.jpg Public Health Statement for Bromoform and Chlorodibromomethane Last Updated on 2013-09-29 01:59:46 This article is a verbatim version of the original and is not available for edits or additions by EoE editors or authors. Companion articles on the same topic that are editable may exist within the EoE. August 2005 En Español CAS#: 75-25-2 and 124-48-1 This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological profile for Bromoform and Chlorodibromomethane. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQs™, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This public health statement... More »
ContentImg.jpg Public Health Statement for Chloromethane Last Updated on 2013-09-26 23:35:55 This article is a verbatim version of the original and is not available for edits or additions by EoE editors or authors. Companion articles on the same topic that are editable may exist within the EoE. December 1998 En Español CAS#: 74-87-3 This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for Chloromethane. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQs™, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This public health statement tells you about chloromethane... More »
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