http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R378SwPH-b0
http://www.ewg.org/
http://www.ewg.org/comm/ewgs-senior-counsel-tells-chair-doe-natural-gas-panel-he-must-step-down
Excerpt:
EWG Urges Chair of DOE Natural Gas Panel to Step Down
Washington, D.C. – During a public meeting of the Secretary of Energy’s advisory board on natural gas extraction and hydraulic fracturing, the Environmental Working Group called on the panel’s chairman to resign because of his financial ties to the oil and gas industry.
http://www.ewg.org/release/fda-sunscreen-rules-too-little-and-very-late
Excerpt:
FDA Sunscreen Rules Too Little and VERY Late
Washington, D.C. –The federal Food and Drug Administration’s new sunscreen rules, released today after nearly 33 years of deliberations, fall short.
“FDA's action offers some noticeable improvements for consumers, such as limiting misleading claims” said David Andrews, Ph.D, a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group. “However, it is clear that FDA caved to industry and weakened its safety standards. Its earlier draft proposed stronger health protections.”
“FDA's action offers some noticeable improvements for consumers, such as limiting misleading claims” said David Andrews, Ph.D, a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group. “However, it is clear that FDA caved to industry and weakened its safety standards. Its earlier draft proposed stronger health protections.”
http://www.ewg.org/news/des-moines-reg-why-grassley-should-lose-his-battle-protect-ethanol
Excerpt:
Des Moines Reg: Why Grassley should lose his battle to protect ethanol
Published March 25, 2011
We at Environmental Working Group welcome Sen. Chuck Grassley's call for an honest, fact-based discussion about reducing our dependence on fossil fuels ("Why I Will Continue to Fight for Ethanol," March 12). I wish we agreed with him that corn ethanol is an effective way to break our petroleum addiction - especially since we agree with, and applaud, his efforts to promote wind energy and reform farm subsidies. But our honest evaluation of the facts leads us to a far different conclusion.
http://www.ewg.org/release/frack-backers-pack-fed-drilling-hearing
Excerpt:
Frack Backers Seek to Pack Fed Drilling Hearing
Gas lobby rallies friendly crowd with transport, hotel, and (almost) Pirates-Mets tickets
Washington, DC – The natural gas industry is pulling out all the stops to build a friendly crowd of drilling and fracking supporters at a federal Energy Department field hearing on fracking scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in Washington, Penn., the heart of the mid-Atlantic natural gas production region.In a story headlined “Greasing the Palms,” Huffington Post’s Tom Zeller reports that Tom Shepstone, head of a natural gas industry advocacy group called Energy In Depth, sent an email Thursday to supporters offering air and bus transportation, meals, hotel rooms and “tickets for the Pittsburgh Pirates game (they’re playing the Mets that night).”
“We need as many of you from our region there as possible under the circumstances,” Shepstone pleaded in the email. “Given the short notice and the distance, we are prepared to help make this happen.”
Today, as the email circulated around Washington, Zeller reported that Shepstone had withdrawn the inducement of baseball tickets. He didn’t say why, but a quick check of the schedule shows that the game is at the same time as the Department of Energy panel's meeting. He was still offering to finance travel, accommodations and food.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_pollution_from_coal-fired_power_plants
Excerpt:
A 2011 report by the the American Lung Association found that coal-fired power plants produce more hazardous air pollution in the United States than any other industrial pollution sources.[2] A 2004 report by the Clean Air Task Force estimated that soot pollution from power plants contributes to 24,000 premature deaths, 38,200 non-fatal heart attacks, and tens of thousands of hospital visits and asthma attacks each year.[3]
http://www.savecfcinhalers.org/PATIENT_FRONT_GROUPS.html
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As YOUR FDA-selected 'Patient Representative' on PADAC since 1996, during which time she pressured the FDA to SPEED UP the ban of CFC inhalers, (even though HFA inhalers never underwent large-scale, real world U.S. postmarketing studies) YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO CALL NANCY SANDER AND DEMAND THAT SHE SUPPORT THE LEGALIZATION OF CFC INHALERS.
YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DEMAND THAT SHE FIGHT ON BEHALF OF THE ASTHMA PATIENTS SHE SAYS SHE REPRESENTS, RATHER THAN FIGHTING AGAINST THEM BY TRYING TO DEFEAT OUR CAMPAIGN TO LEGALIZE CFC INHALERS.
HER PHONE NUMBER IS 800-878-4403.
http://allergynotes.blogspot.com/2008/09/fda-on-transition-from-cfc-propelled.html
Except:
Why are CFC inhalers being phased out?
Due to an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. CFCs decrease the protective ozone layer above the earth.
What HFA inhalers are available?
There are 3 albuterol HFA inhalers:
- ProAir HFA
- Proventil HFA
- Ventolin HFA
FDA has also approved Xopenex HFA with the active ingredient levalbuterol.
How are HFA inhalers different from CFC inhalers?
http://www.rateadrug.com/Primatene-Mist-side-effects.aspx
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ACSH_Scientific_advisors
As of December 2009, the Scientific Advisors of the American Council on Science and Health were:[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol
Excerpt:
Adverse effects
The most common side effects are of fine tremor, nervousness, headache, muscle cramps, dry mouth, and palpitation.[5] Other symptoms may be tachycardia (rapid heart rate), arrhythmias, flushing, myocardial ischemia, and disturbances of sleep and behaviour.[5] Rarely occurring, but of importance, are allergic reactions of paradoxical bronchospasm, urticaria, angioedema, hypotension, and collapse, while high doses may cause hypokalaemia (low potassium levels), especially in patients with renal failure and those on certain diuretics and xanthine derivatives.[5]
http://journals.lww.com/smajournalonline/Fulltext/2006/03000/Paradoxical_Bronchospasm__A_Potentially_Life.24.aspx
Excerpt:
Abstract
We report a case of paradoxical bronchospasm to both levalbuterol and albuterol. While the exact mechanism for this known adverse effect of albuterol is not known, awareness of this adverse effect can be life saving to the patient. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of paradoxical bronchospasm to levalbuterol inhalation solution.
Key Points
* Paradoxical bronchospasm is a known adverse effect of albuterol and can be life threatening.
* Paradoxical bronchospasm can occur with levalbuterol as well as racemic albuterol.
* In patients with bronchospastic response to racemic albuterol, levalbuterol should be used with extreme caution or if possible, avoided.
http://www.ewg.org/release/ewg-supporters-urge-usda-stop-funding-pro-pesticide-campaign-taxpayer-dollars
Excerpt:
EWG Supporters Urge USDA to Stop Funding Pro-Pesticide Campaign with Taxpayer Dollars
CONTACT: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2011
Washington, D.C. -- The Environmental Working Group today will send the U.S. Department of Agriculture a petition signed by more than 50,000 EWG supporters who object to the department’s grant of $180,000 to a California-based pro-pesticide, big agriculture group.
The grant underwrites efforts by the Alliance for Food and Farming to counter "claims by activist groups about unsafe levels of pesticides." It targets EWG’s Shopper's Guide to Pesticides, which translates government tests of agricultural chemicals detected on fresh produce into a user-friendly list of foods with high and low pesticide residues.
Conventional produce industry groups have been pressing the USDA to alter its releases of pesticide data. This year, the data release has been delayed by more than four months.
“We have rarely seen such a strong response from our supporters,” EWG President Ken Cook said. “More people are signing this petition by the hour, but we want to communicate immediately to USDA that these government data belong to everyone, not just to the industry.”
Three scientific studies published April 21 linked prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides and diminished IQs in children between the ages of 6 and 9.
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EWG is a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC that uses the power of information to protect human health and the environment. http://www.ewg.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organophosphate
Excerpt:
An organophosphate (sometimes abbreviated OP) is the general name for esters of phosphoric acid. Phosphates are probably the most pervasive organophosphorus compounds. Many of the most important biochemicals are organophosphates, including DNA and RNA as well as many cofactors that are essential for life. Organophosphates are the basis of many insecticides, herbicides, and nerve gases. Recent studies suggest a possible link to adverse effects in the neurobehavioral development of fetuses and children, even at very low levels of exposure. Organophosphates are widely used as solvents, plasticizers, and EP additives.
http://www.ewg.org/release/ewg-supporters-urge-usda-stop-funding-pro-pesticide-campaign-taxpayer-dollars
Excerpt:
EWG Supporters Urge USDA to Stop Funding Pro-Pesticide Campaign with Taxpayer Dollars
CONTACT: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2011
Washington, D.C. -- The Environmental Working Group today will send the U.S. Department of Agriculture a petition signed by more than 50,000 EWG supporters who object to the department’s grant of $180,000 to a California-based pro-pesticide, big agriculture group.
The grant underwrites efforts by the Alliance for Food and Farming to counter "claims by activist groups about unsafe levels of pesticides." It targets EWG’s Shopper's Guide to Pesticides, which translates government tests of agricultural chemicals detected on fresh produce into a user-friendly list of foods with high and low pesticide residues.
Conventional produce industry groups have been pressing the USDA to alter its releases of pesticide data. This year, the data release has been delayed by more than four months.
“We have rarely seen such a strong response from our supporters,” EWG President Ken Cook said. “More people are signing this petition by the hour, but we want to communicate immediately to USDA that these government data belong to everyone, not just to the industry.”
Three scientific studies published April 21 linked prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides and diminished IQs in children between the ages of 6 and 9.
# # #
EWG is a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC that uses the power of information to protect human health and the environment. http://www.ewg.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organophosphate
Excerpt:
An organophosphate (sometimes abbreviated OP) is the general name for esters of phosphoric acid. Phosphates are probably the most pervasive organophosphorus compounds. Many of the most important biochemicals are organophosphates, including DNA and RNA as well as many cofactors that are essential for life. Organophosphates are the basis of many insecticides, herbicides, and nerve gases. Recent studies suggest a possible link to adverse effects in the neurobehavioral development of fetuses and children, even at very low levels of exposure. Organophosphates are widely used as solvents, plasticizers, and EP additives.
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