It's the best-selling herbicide in the world, according to the Ag Journal. And it was the most heavily used pesticide in the U.S. in 2007, according to the most recent numbers available from the EPA. A popular herbicide called atrazine is the pesticide most commonly found in American drinking water.
Where has atrazine been banned?
European Union bans atrazine, while the United States negotiates continued use. Author information: (1)Health and Environment Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005, USA. Atrazine is a common agricultural herbicide with endocrine disruptor activity.
A popular herbicide called atrazine is the pesticide most commonly found in American drinking water.
How many pounds of atrazine are used in the US?
Currently 70 million pounds of atrazine are used in the United States each year, contaminating ground, surface and drinking water.
Is atrazine an endocrine disruptor?
Ecological Impacts of Atrazine. Endocrinology is the study of hormones. ... Endocrine disruptors, such as atrazine, which interfere with hormone production and/or activity, can affect any of these processes.
Is atrazine harmful to humans?
Atrazine also caused liver, kidney, and heart damage in animals; it is possible that atrazine could cause these effects in humans, although this has not been examined. Not enough information is available to definitely state whether atrazine causes cancer in humans.
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Polycarbonate is the plastic that is made from the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA).
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BPA stands for bisphenol A. BPA is an industrial chemical that has been used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1960s. BPA is found in polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. Polycarbonate plastics are often used in containers that store food and beverages, such as water bottles. Exposure to BPA is a concern because of possible health effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children.
The pharmaceuticals in the drinking water pollution
Do plastic water bottles leach harmful chemicals?
Study: Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Like Chemicals. Makers of water bottles, including Camelback, now sell products that don't contain BPA, a chemical that can mimic the sex hormone estrogen. But a new study says that even if they don't contain BPA, most plastic products release estrogenic chemicals.
The huge floating island of trash in the Pacific Ocean, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now more than twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France. The patch, which is floating between Hawaii and California, contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 80,000 metric tons.
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How long does it take for plastic to break down in the ocean?
According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, globally, up to 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year from eating plastic.
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Is atrazine harmful to humans?
Atrazine also caused liver, kidney, and heart damage in animals; it is possible that atrazine could cause these effects in humans, although this has not been examined. Not enough information is available to definitely state whether atrazine causes cancer in humans.
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Russia Indictment 2.0: What to Make of Mueller’s Hacking Indictment
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The Cobden–Chevalier Treaty was an Anglo-French free trade agreement signed between the United Kingdom and France on 23 January 1860. It is named after the main British and French originators of the treaty, Richard Cobden MP and Michel Chevalier. It has been described as the first modern trade agreement.
Utility employees held private meetings with state regulators to discuss revisions to the permits and provided language that was incorporated verbatim by the regulators into the final text of the revised permits. Electric Utility Industry Created Their Own Air Pollution Permits, Held Private Meetings With Texas Regulators
TCEQ: Contested Coal Mine Can Release Wastewater Into Drinking Supply
An estimated 790 million people (11% of the world's population) are without access to an improved water supply. Apr 11, 2016 - CDC
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln
3 Versions of Europe Are Collapsing at the Same Time
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What are the effects of Atrazine on developing organisms, like frogs and children?
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Texas ranks 2nd in the country for coal ash generation:
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I said BPA, not NBA...
Atrazine still polluting water; Texas tests show high levels
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Faced with a world in chaos, what did St. Benedict do?
For the last eight years deep in the heart of the state of the union named after the natives for friends, three environmental groups documents dangerous levels of toxic contaminants from coal ash in Texas and elsewhere — and little regulation.
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Where does the ash go from the burning coal?
Every year, the nation's coal plants produce 140 million tons of coal ash pollution, the toxic by-product that is left over after the coal is burned. All that ash has to go somewhere, so it's dumped in the backyards of power plants across the nation—into open-air pits and precarious surface-waste ponds.
Trump Administration Plan to Roll Back 2015 Coal Ash Regulations Washington, D.C. — A… ... Wells at its Big Brown Power Plant Southeast of Dallas AUSTIN, TX
What is the difference between fly ash and bottom ash?
During coal combustion, large amounts of ash are created along with carbon dioxide and other gases. The fine particle ash that rises up with the flue gases is known as fly or flue ash while the heavier ash that does not rise is called bottom ash; collectively these are known as coal ash.
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Is coal ash hazardous?
EPA Will Not Declare Coal Ash A Hazardous Waste. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday issued its first-ever regulations on coal ash, a toxic byproduct of burning coal for power. But to environmentalists' chagrin, the agency declined to designate the substance as a hazardous waste.Dec 19, 2014
Can you recycle coal ash?
Coal ash comes a few forms, the main two being fly ash and bottom ash. Fly ash (about 75% of coal by-products) is an extremely fine powder that can be recycled for numerous beneficial uses or disposed of in either dry storage such as landfills or wet storage such as ponds or impoundments.
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Indeed, recovery of rare earth and other elements as computational chemistry capable project naratives may be proved in design before being deployed as suggested by Serenity Sells for the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency in the past few years. Serenity Sells proposes academic competition to address these issues to serve the great state of Texas in interstate competition to address EPA and DoE missions for teaming agreements:
What is the probability of a Texas Flash flood upon a coal ash power plant property? You wager what kind of insurance upon multiple generations in such lack of army core of engineering foresight to serve the great state of Texas? To serve a union of states, a 'healthy academic competition from states', in an 'Interstate Competition' may serve our United States of America best.
EPA Finds Atrazine Likely Harming Most Species of Plants, Animals in U.S.
Alis volat propriis is a Latin phrase used as the motto of U.S. state of Oregon. The official English version of the motto is "She flies with her own wings" in keeping with the tradition of considering countries and territories to be feminine.
What is the meaning of the Oregon state flag?
Oregon Legislature; first sewn by Marjorie Kennedy and Blanche Cox. The flag of the state of Oregon is a two-sided flag in navy blue and gold with an optional gold fringe. On the front is the escutcheon from the state seal and on the reverse is a gold figure of a beaver, the state animal.
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“If you live in America, you are drinking and eating Atrazine,” he wrote to followers this month. “And if you think your government is working hard to protect you from Atrazine, you are wrong!” Atrazine, 80 million pounds of which are dumped on US crop fields every year, continues to be the pesticide most commonly found in US groundwater, says Kerry Kriger, the professor behind Save the Frogs, a Berkeley, California-based advocacy.
Doing independent research and networking,
I learned of the Telluride Institute and I learned of the Telluride Music Festival
as an agent of change and a business developer, I may envision how a grant writer may utilize a live music grant to coordinate a live PSA to promote 'recycling' programs here from the music capitol of the world, Austin, Texas.
The King Biscuit Blues Festival is an annual, multi-day blues festival, held in Helena, Arkansas, United States. The name comes from King Biscuit Time, which was the longest running radio show.
What is the state beverage of Arkansas?
Milk
Milk was recognized as the official state beverage of Arkansas in 1985. Dairy farming is an important part of Arkansas agriculture.
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The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four-day music festival developed and produced by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment. The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.
What is the state fruit of Tennessee?
Lycopersicon lycopersicum
The tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) was designated the official state fruit of Tennessee in 2003.
The bear's head appears as the symbol of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. It is a protected game animal and may be hunted only by license in certain parts of the state and year. The American Black Bear was selected as the state's official animal on February 8, 1963 by the New Mexico Legislature.
The Egg Bowl is an American college football rivalry game played annually between Southeastern Conference members Mississippi State University and Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi).
Which animal represents Oklahoma?
Oklahoma was the forty-sixth state. The buffalo, or bison, was adopted as the state animal in 1972. Buffalo are large mammals with a brown coat, a large hump, and shaggy hair around the head. Buffalo can reach up to 2,000 pounds and stand almost six feet tall.
Oklahoma designated white bass (Morone chrysops) as the official state fish in 1974 to represent the importance of lakes and sport fishing in Oklahoma.
The Tri-State Music Festival is an annual festival in Enid, Oklahoma since 1932. It is named for the three original participating states, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. The festival includes a jazz festival, a parade, a grand concert and a carnival.
Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, held each October in Lafayette, cover the sweep of culture in the region, including its European, African and Native American roots.
As a Small Business of Innovation Research, Serenity Sells is seeking solutions to serve the great state of Texas and U.S. nation proposing interstate teaming agreements and federal project narratives. Austin Texas is downstream from Telluride Colorado:
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The Texas tax coffer is booting the bill:
Texas taxpayer tab for suing feds tops $5 million
This is Nation wide an issue:
Should We Be Watering California’s Crops With Oil Field Wastewater?
So suggested an inveterate academic competition solution. Yup
Wait a minute and the weather will change.
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I learned a lot about Ecology Action Cory did a great job giving a tour of Circle Acres. I also learned about the Myco Alliance
and I proposed a music capitol healthy competition with the live music capitol of the world, with the Telluride Music Festival as an interstate venture,
and was inspired to propose:
Handpan Jeongak battle of the Qawwali bands, Damaru to the five animals style dance
as a #musiccapitol note to pound or pound note to orchestrate a Brexit as if Knock (French title: Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine) is a 1923 French satirical play about hypochondria, written by Jules Romains. It was performed for the first time at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on 15 December 1923 in a production by Louis Jouvet.
The ambitious Dr. Knock arrives in a rural village, Saint-Maurice, to step into Dr. Parpalaid's footsteps as the local physician. Unfortunately, the villagers are all in good health, which makes Knock realize that he has been duped by Parpalaid. He therefore decides to make everybody believe they are actually far sicker then they actually are...
Jacob Henry Schiff was a Jewish-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. Among many other things, he helped finance the expansion of American railroads and the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1919, G.H. (Bert) Walker, a St. Louis-born, British-schooled operative of British and Morgan bankers, set up a private bank for E.H. Harriman’s sons, Averell and Roland, W.A. Harriman and Company. E.H. Harriman acquiring the bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad, financed through the British royal family’s private financier, Sir Ernst Cassel, Cassel’s New York partner Jacob Schiff, and members of the Rockefeller family. Like everything else on Wall Street, the financiers traded on what others had created. A banker and philanthropist, Jacob H. Schiff secured European funding to build America’s railroads, mines, and other enterprises. He helped transform the United States into the world’s leading industrialized economy.
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How did the Russo Japanese War impact Japan's modernization?
The Russo-Japanese War was a brief conflict but created significant problems for the tsarist regime. It was triggered by Nicholas II and his wish to expand the Russian empire in Asia. ... Even more telling was the economic impact the war had on the Russian economy, which fanned the flames of revolution in 1905.
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In 1926, Bert brought his son-in-law, Prescott Bush, into this enterprise, Prescott and Roland Harriman having sworn lifetime blood oaths to each other as members of Yale’s secret satanic Skull and Bones society. Beginning in 1920, W.A. Harriman and Company under Bert Walker’s direction, began looting post-World War I Germany, acquiring control over shipping (the Hamburg-America ship line), and buying into steel production and raw materials. When the Depression hit, W.A. Harriman merged with Brown Brothers, the British family investment firm of Montagu Norman, the pro-Nazi head of the Bank of England. Brown Brothers Harriman was the largest private investment bank in the United States, and Prescott Bush was installed as its managing director. According to his account, Prescott presided over the weekly Thursday partners meeting at the firm, assisted by “silent and properly attired British floor attendants.”
Prescott Bush presided over a banking complex tightly interwoven with the funding centers for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. Most notable was their subsidiary, the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), a money-management front for Fritz Thyssen, the leading German steel and coal tycoon. Brown Brothers Harriman was also the bank of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company, which included Thyssen’s Nazi business partner Friedrich Flick among its owners, and utilized slave labor from Auschwitz in its operations. In addition, Bush was the director of a number of companies associated with Thyssen, including the Silesian American Corporation. Thyssen, by his own account, was the chief financier of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler’s war build-up.
The lawyers for Brown Brothers Harriman in their Nazi dealings were the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen Dulles, both of whom were intimates of Prescott Bush throughout their lifetimes. John Foster Dulles continued his support for Hitler right up to Hitler’s attack on Britain, promoting Hitler as a marcher lord who would destroy emergent Russia. He was joined in this project by Montagu Norman, then at the Bank of England and formerly at Brown Brothers, the family bank, who coordinated the Hitler project for the British elites.
Hitler still needed the support of the Catholic Centre Party (BVP) to pass this legislation. (The Battle for Grain was an economic policy undertaken by the Fascists in Italy during the 1920s as a move toward autarky.) Hitler therefore offered the BVP a deal: vote for the bill and the Nazi government would guarantee the rights of the Catholic Church. The BVP agreed and when the vote was taken, only 94 members of the SDP voted against the Enabling Bill.
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Adolf Hitler was now the dictator of Germany. Fritz Thyssen now joined with W. Averell Harriman to establish credit for the new government. He later admitted that he told Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, that he would do this via BHS, a Dutch bank that he had established with Harriman. "I chose a Dutch bank because I did not want to be mixed up with German banks... it was better to business with a Dutch bank, and I thought I would have the Nazis a little more in my hands."
Albert Voegler, the chief executive of the German Steel Trust was also a director of BHS Bank in Rotterdam. Voegler was also a director of the Harriman-Bush owned Hamburg-Amerika shipping line. He was another leading financial supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
In 1932, the Republican government in Spain expelled the Jesuits from the country.
In the Autumn of 1942, the U.S. government seized the assets of UBC and Silesian American Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
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Here’s What Happened When The Government Lost Control Of The Biggest Nuclear Cleanup In The US
“This is 2018. We shouldn't still be contaminating people with plutonium,” said a worker at the Hanford site in eastern Washington.
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Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
The Japanese nuclear disaster bathed north America in a radioactive cloud. Now pharmacologists have found the telltale signature in California wine made at the time.
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