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Toxaphene
Toxaphene: - Chemical that causes adverse health effects in domestic water supplies and is toxic to fresh water and marine aquatic life. [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Toxaphene:: |
Seattle Post IntelligencerIn 1982, for example, I came across information on toxaphene, an insect poison that had replaced DDT. American farmers, especially those cultivating cotton
Herald Wire Reports - Aug 3, 2008
Grand Forks Herald,DDT, chlordane and toxaphene were among the chemicals picked up by the annual state pesticide pickup organized by the state Agriculture Department.
ND project collects toxic farm chemicals - Aug 3, 2008
In-Forum,DDT, chlordane and toxaphene were among the chemicals picked up by the annual state pesticide pickup organized by the state Agriculture Department.
Toxic chemical levels finally dropping in Arctic food animals, new ... - Jul 14, 2008
The Canadian Press..."Organochlorines, like DDT or chlordane or toxaphene or industrial chemicals like PCB, are declining," said project leader Laurie Chan of the University of
Toxins Drop in Arctic Wildlife - Jul 21, 2008
E/The Environmental Magazine,The study concluded that carcinogens such as PCBs, DDT, chlordane and toxaphene have largely leveled off or have begun declining in Arctic animals after
Project Safe Send setting records - Jul 31, 2008
Wahpeton Daily News,Some of the chemicals brought in this year to the Wahpeton site included crab grass killer with arsenic, toxaphene, chloropicrin, heptachlor,
Bad Fish - Jul 14, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,The seven chemicals examined by the state in the new assessment are the banned pesticides chlordane, DDT, toxaphene and dieldrin; mercury leaking from old
Coosa River included in fish consumption advisories - Jul 22, 2008
Clanton Advertiser,...heptachlors, Mirex, chlorpyriphos and toxaphene), and heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, mercury and selenium) to which the fish may have been exposed.
BOMBARDIER TAKES CALCULATED RISK WITH LAUNCH OF CSERIES, SAY ANALYSTS - Jul 15, 2008
Orillia Packet & Times,..."Organochlorines, like DDT or chlordane or toxaphene or industrial chemicals like PCB, are declining,'' said project leader Laurie Chan of the University of
The whole world pollutes Lake Superior - Nov 19, 2007
Detroit Free Press,Levels of toxaphene, which replaced DDT as the major global pesticide, increased 50% in Lake Superior after it was banned in 1982.
As insects grow immune, pesticides stay on attack - Nov 6, 2007
commercialappeal.com (subscription),Up to 94percent of the DDT used in the nation, along with more than 80percent of the methyl parathion and toxaphene, rained down on cotton fields each year.
Hercules proposing cleanup - Nov 6, 2007
Brunswick News,Cleanup of the site, stretching from Altama Avenue on the west to US 17 on the east, is to begin 27 years after Hercules stopped production of toxaphene,
Cotton's high ecological cost - Nov 7, 2007
commercialappeal.com (subscription),...a serious health risk in many streams throughout the Mississippi Delta because of lingering residues of the now-banned poisons DDT and toxaphene.
SUMMARY OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS ... - Nov 25, 2007
Earth Negotiations Bulletin,DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex and toxaphene; 2) industrial chemicals: hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs);
Why I would never eat farmed salmon - Nov 5, 2007
Irish Independent,Researchers tested about 700 salmon - wild and farmed - for pcbs, dioxin, toxaphene and dieldrin. Farmed salmon had seven times higher levels of these
Risks vs. benefits of eating salmon - Aug 11, 2007
Providence Journal (subscription),The EPA procedure projected cancer risks from combined exposure to PCBs and the chlorinated pesticides toxaphene and dieldrin from salmon.
Landia Site Still EPA-Listed - Aug 1, 2007
The Ledger,The EPA has already spent about $700000 cleaning up the property plagued by high concentrations of lead, arsenic and toxaphene, a project that removed most
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