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Study links common household chemicals with rising rates of cancer

Common household chemicals may be a contributing factor behind significant increases... more

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Sun exposure lowers cancer risk

A study that correlated exposure to sunlight with cancer risk found that people... more

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Your Mother’s Day Fratoscope

The psychic frat boy has your Mother's Day predictions.

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Seattle Children's Hospital Cancer Patient, Creates 'Stronger' Video

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Appalachian women put strip mining on trial

It's been almost 35 years since Lois Gibbs became an environmental activist after... more

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An amazing music video made by children at Seattle Children's Hospital

This is really inspiring. The song is by Kelly Clarkson http://youtu.be/ihGCj5mfCk8

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$Obama administration's plan for disclosing toxic chemicals used in fracking is weak$

Obama administration's plan for disclosing toxic chemicals used in fracking is weak

The Obama administration's proposed rule for hydraulic oil and gas drilling on public lands is the equivalent of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

The Interior Department issued a proposal Friday that calls for companies to disclose the chemicals used in extracting gas and oil from shale deposits deep underground. The problem is, unlike an earlier plan that would have required them to release the information at least 30 days before starting a well, the new provision says the contents of the fracking fluid -- water, sand and chemicals -- don't have to be divulged until after drilling is over.

That's hardly proactive.

The rule was supposed to address concerns raised by environmentalists, scientists, politicians and landowners about potential groundwater contamination and the treatment of tainted water that flows out of wells during and after drilling. In particular, researchers and physicians say knowing the contents of the chemicals used to extract gas and oil is key in pinpointing potential health issues.

But the Obama administration, under criticism from Republicans and industry officials for the president's energy policies, bowed to drillers' objections. They said the additional paperwork would slow the permitting process and could jeopardize trade secrets. It decided scientists would be able to use the records to trace any future contamination after the fact, and that there was no reason to require disclosure in advance of drilling.

The federal rule would apply only to 3,000 or so wells drilled each year on 700 million acres of public land administered by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management and another 56 million acres of Indian land. Regulation of drilling on private land -- the majority of the 13,000 wells drilled each year -- falls to the states, and some already require prior disclosure of fracking chemicals.

The rule for public lands should be at least as stringent as those being imposed by states. The watered-down rule announced last week is too weak.The Obama administration's proposed rule for hydraulic oil and gas drilling on... more

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The Low-Level Radiation Puzzle

"The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is casting new light – or maybe just... more

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Sound The Alarm

A 2005 shot of Brendan Margison surfing in front of the now-damaged nuclear power... more

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Your Cinco De Mayo Fratoscope

The psychic frat boy has your Cinco De Mayo predictions.

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Patient with terminal cancer ‘more at peace’ after mushroom trip

By Eric W. Dolan Thursday, May 3, 2012 17:41 EDT Artist Norma Loring, a patient... more

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Anxious Japan prepares for life without nuclear power

More Apt Title?
"Nuclear Industry Anxious as Japan prepares for life without nuclear power."

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"This weekend Japan will begin a bold experiment in energy use that no one had thought possible – until the Fukushima Daiichi power plant suffered a triple meltdown just over a year ago.

On Saturday, when the Hokkaido electric power company shuts down the No3 reactor at its Tomari plant for maintenance, the world's third-largest economy will be without a single working nuclear reactor for the first time for almost 50 years.

The closure of the last of Japan's 54 reactors marks a dramatic shift in energy policy, but while campaigners prepare to celebrate, the nationwide nuclear blackout comes with significant economic and environmental risks attached.

The crisis at Fukushima sparked by last year's deadly earthquake and tsunami forced Japan into a fundamental rethink of its relationship with nuclear power."

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It's a small world and we all need to rethink our relationship with nuclear power!

Since we rely less on nuclear power than Japan did before Fukushima, and have much more land and alternative energy resources, decommissioning our nukes and switching to appropriate technologies should be easier for us than Japan. Let's not wait for a Fukushima or Chernobyl style catastrophe on U.S.soil before we decide to end the nuclear legacy.

With approximately double the nuclear reactors in the U.S. versus Japan we have a formidable task ahead of us to do without nuclear power while eliminating or reducing our use of coal, oil and natural gas.

Standard solar is already cost competitive with nuclear and with new sodium solar power tower systems solar can provide power for hours after the sun goes down. It will take everything we've got, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, etc., with a major emphasis on conservation.

Did you know that we have spent fuel pools in the U.S. without proper backup power systems in place and that they are not held to the same backup power standards as the reactor cores, even though there could be much more radioactivity in the barely contained above ground "swimming" pools that are our spent fuel pools?More Apt Title? "Nuclear Industry Anxious as Japan prepares for life without... more

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the Fukushima Radiation Cloud over Australia & NZ

"From many accounts the inevitable is happening. The nuclear radiation from the... more

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Your Fratoscope: April 29, 2012

The psychic frat boy tells you the future!

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Sex, Lies and Cigarettes

The Smoking Baby - the 2-year old who became a global YouTube sensation in the summer... more

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Air pollution

The estimated resulting cancer risk for people living near the airport was five times... more

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Your Fratoscope: April 22, 2012

The psychic frat boy predicts your future for the week.

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Fukushima is about to blow and nobody gives a damn about you!

Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now... more

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Major Group Says Government Diluted Fiberglass Cancer Results

Fiberglass is highly common in not only homes and schools, but it can also be found in consumer items like toothpaste and certain medications. Beyond that, it could occupy the air you breathe. And thanks to one report that asserts the safety of the substance — which a leading organization is now calling fraudulent and outright wrong — fiberglass is still being used on a major scale.

Fiberglass was nominated as a leading safety issue on the synthetic mineral fiber list for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) back in 1994. It was even documented as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” by the National Institutes of Health in its 2011 “Report on Carcinogens.”

So why is it still so prominent in your daily life? One final report by the NIH dismissed all of the previous findings and concerns, saying that there was “no evidence of carcinogenicity” surrounding fiberglass.

A curious result, as the previous evidence had already suggested a link between fiberglass and cancer – a result that the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), a major organization in the fight for toxin-free air, says is based on faulty information. The group asserts that the formula the EPA and NIH examined to determine whether or not fiberglass poses a cancer risk was seriously diluted, making fiberglass appear to be safe. The result is the OSHA listing fiberglass as ‘safe’ for workers, and allowing them heavy exposure on a daily basis.According to the agency in their report:

In assessing the cancer risks related to the source category, EPA used long-term concentrations affecting the most highly exposed census block for each facility. This analysis dilutes the effect of sources’ emissions by estimating the impact at the centroid of the census block instead of at the property line or wherever the maximum exposed individual is.

The information is particularly concerning for workers who may be handling fiberglass products on a daily basis, and are unaware of the associated risks.

With the call by the NACAA to government agencies to re-examine the skewed results regarding cancer-linked fiberglass, some serious changes may soon come about that the OSHA is forced to pick up on.

http://www.freedominfonetwork.org/profiles/blogs/major-group-says-government-diluted-fiberglass-cancer-resultsFiberglass is highly common in not only homes and schools, but it can also be found in... more

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Legendary Levon Helm, Drummer and Singer of the Band, Dead at 71

Levon Helm, legendary singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York... more

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