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Generating electricity by burning coal is responsible for about half of an estimated $120 billion in yearly costs from early deaths and health damages to thousands of Americans from the use of fossil fuels, a federal advisory group said Monday.
A one-year study by the National Research Council looked at many costs of energy production and the use of fossil fuels that aren't reflected in the price of energy. The $120 billion sum was the cost to human health from U.S. electricity production, transportation and heating in 2005, the latest year with full data.
The report also looks at other hidden costs from climate change, hazardous air pollutants such as mercury, harm to ecosystems and risks to national security, but it doesn't put a dollar value on them.
"We would characterize our estimate as an underestimate," because it didn't include those other costs, said Jared Cohon, the president of Carnegie Mellon University and the chairman of the committee that produced the report.
The report says it's impossible to put a monetary amount on all the hidden costs of energy, in some cases because of a lack of information but also because the study had limited time and resources. It focused on the costs of air pollution on health.
Coal-fired power and motor-vehicle transportation accounted for roughly 99 percent of those costs. The other approximately 1 percent of the estimate was from heating for homes, buildings and industrial purposes, mostly from natural gas.
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Protestors say "We are the 48 million Americans who cannot access health care today!"
ANP: Congressman Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) led a protest Monday outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, site of the 2009 national conference of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade group for the health insurance industry.Protestors say "We are the 48 million Americans who cannot access health care... more
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Welcome to Aspartame Victims, the official site of the "Official Aspartame List", the famous e-mail group where victims of aspartame poisoning discuss the issues of aspartame recovery and aspartame activism.
This group was founded at the beginning of 1999 in response to the huge number of persons responding to the information available on the Internet, primarily thanks to the famous "Nancy Markle" e-mail and the aspartame victims' information sites such as http://www.aspartamesafety.com/ and http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/.
Now we have a support group for aspartame victims, which is also a brain center for aspartame activists. We have found that, once people find out that they have been poisoned, they become very angry and committed to spreading the message to others, warning them not to allow themselves to be poisoned any longer. We do not advocate your failing to see the doctor for ligitimate health concerns. Claims to the contrary are false and deliberately misleading. We advocate the practice of everyone having a say in her or his own health matters.
After giving up the consumption of aspartame, many people occasionally continue to suffer some of the same symptoms, and in many cases, this might be due to their consumption of foods and other products that contain MSG (monosodium glutamte). The presence of this in many products is often disguised by misleading labelling, and this is an important topic in terms of the recovery of aspartame users. For more on the issue of "hidden" MSG and misleading labelling, please consult this page: http://presidiotex.com/aspartame/msg.html
For more information about our list, write to aspartame@presidiotex.com
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
in New Mexico where citizens are trying to get the bill to ban aspartame out of deadlock in the State Legislators and fighting an uphill battle against a powerful corporate law firm hired by aspartame's multinational corporate producers to stonewall the bill and stop it from getting to the Governor's desk to sign.
Think about what all the neurotoxins flushed into the public water systems from the millions worldwide ingesting aspartame. They recently started testing for hormones and pharmaceuticals in the water system from people's wastes and expired pills flushed down toilets. Does anyone have the data on whether anybody is testing for the three neurotoxins in aspartame and formaldehyde?
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