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  1. Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
  2. Colombia's Agent Orange?
    Roundup Not Ready

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
  3. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  4. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  5. Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
    Resource Type: Book
  6. Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
  7. Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.
  8. Major health and environment organizations call on government to eliminate public exposure to BPA
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Thirteen of Canada’s leading health and environmental organizations call on the federal government to eliminate key sources of public exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), citing links between even low exposures to the chemical and major chronic diseases.
  9. Mercury Poisoning
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
  10. Our Stolen Future
    Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The authors reveal in this work that chemicals in the environment have affected human reproductive patterns in a way that may threaten the survival of the species.
  11. A Rubber Worker's Guide to Occupational Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  12. Saskatoon Chemicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  13. "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
  14. TTIP will legalize cancer-causing chemicals banned by EU, trade union warns
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Britain could be flooded with harmful chemicals currently banned in the European Union if the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal is signed next week, a trade union has warned.
  15. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
    A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
  16. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.


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