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Stonewall
This story addresses clause in Ohio's Bioterrorism Bill, which allows it to hide information gathered during public health investigations. The reporter discovered that hiding this information was more of a pattern than an exception. She found examples of the Department's efforts to bury information, stonewall citizens, and downplay health risks. For example...in one community, data was skewed to show no link between toxins in the soil and local leukemia cases. Not only does the Health Department hide this information, they make it nearly impossible to retrieve, by ignoring information requests...even the State Attorney General couldn't get answers to its health-related inquiry.
Tags: Ohio Department of Health; Bioterrorism Bill; Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; Ohio Attorney General; EPA; health assessment; public health; stonewall; health risks; public health information; Ohio Attorney General; Centers for Disease Control; Waste Technologies Industries; hazardous waste; cancer rates; air pollution; pollution testing; leukemia; autism; neurological disorders; multiple sclerosis; well water; health hazard; toxic chemicals; Trichlorethylene (TCE); anthrax; e.coli; Greenpeace
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Hot Stuff on Ice
Governing reports on the latest proposals "what to do with used - but potentially dangerous fuel from nuclear power plants." The story details disposal projects in Minnesota, Utah, South Carolina, Nevada. The report describes how "for decades, states have been wrangling over disposal sites for radioactive waste," and finds that the new ideas are "generating as much controversy as ever."
Tags: nuclear energy; environment; pollution; waste disposal; hazardous waste; radiation; safety; Greenpeace; power plants
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Echelon
A CBS News 60 Minutes investigation discovers that a top-secret, "little-known system called Echelon is able to intercept virtually any electronic transmission worldwide." The story reports on the European Union concerns over corporate espionage by the NSA. It finds that "the Echelon program is far more vast than the EU had presented, and that the globe is peppered with huge spy stations..." The report reveals that, while the American National Security Agency "is forbidden by American law to spy on American citizens, .... Canada and England do the spying on behalf of the NSA and simply send the information to their American colleagues." The investigation finds that these two countries "use the same loophole to get around their own domestic surveillance rules," and uncovers reports that Echelon has listened in on late Princess Diana, Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOIA; intelligence; national security; Federation of American Scientists; Menwith Hill; House Intelligence Committee; Congress; traffic; parliament; encryption; law enforcement
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The Pharmageddon Riddle
The New Yorker tells the story of the international chemical conglomerate Monsanto and the troubles the company has had recently in light of growing concerns in America and Europe about the safety of genetically engineered products.
Tags: Monsanto; genetically engineered; GE; food; medicine; protests; Europe; Greenpeace
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No title (id: 12976)
Southern Exposure investigates child labor in the United States. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates there are 5 million youth in the work force, but the agency does not collect data on those under 15. Farm work is notably unregulated when it comes to young workers, leaving many children working in situations detrimental to their social and educational development, health, and their lives.(Fall/ Winter 1995)
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In Harm's Way
E Magazine reports that "Greenpeace's visceral brand of nonviolent direct action is making it a player in the world's environmental trouble zones....Greenpeace's handling of incidents ... demonstrates both its unswerving commitment and its prowess as an efficient publicity machine.... It's also typical of Greenpeace that its rhetoric was matched by action... From the beginning, the organization has physically imposed itself in the path of polluters and despoilers...."
Tags: Rainbow Warrior nonprofit activism grassroots action-oriented politics confrontation eco-pirates
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Dumping on Ohio
Z Magazine reports that "The push is on for low-level radioactive waste dumps...." Chamberlain chronicles Ohio's political and business struggle with whether to build a dump, if so where, and who should pay for it.
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No title (id: 10431)
Philippine Star details how recycling firms in that country are using it as a dumping ground for plastics waste from industrialized countries; firms, often operating illegally without permits, import as much as 26,000 metric tons a year for disposal in the Phillipines, presenting health dangers to residents and particularly recycling workers, April 20 - 23, 1994.
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No title (id: 10426)
Garbage magazine investigates the movement to end all use of the chemical chlorine because of its health threats; finds that the threats are often exagerated or based on poor science and that such a ban would completely disrupt the entire chemical industry, change thousands of industrial processes and products and disrupt society and technology, Summer 1994.
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No title (id: 10044)
Metro Times (Detroit) reveals how a small-town cement plant located in rural Michigan quietly became one of the nation's largest toxic waste incinerators, Oct. 20, 1993.
Tags: MI Paulsen Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Greenpeace EPA 9 pages