• EPA's delay jeopardizes the health of millions of Americans exposed to high levels of known human carcinogens and other harmful chemicals emitted by cars, trucks, and buses," stated U.S. PIRG Clean Air Advocate Emily Figdor. (earthjustice.org)
  • Scientists found that some face masks used by the general public are laced with toxic chemicals , including known carcinogens and environmental pollutants. (naturalnews.com)
  • Findings, published online this week in the journal Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, show that air vented from machines using the top-selling scented liquid laundry detergent and scented dryer sheet contains hazardous chemicals, including two that are classified as carcinogens. (eponline.com)
  • Help students to understand that chemicals or substances emitted directly into the air are primary pollutants. (scienceteacherprogram.org)
  • This report summarises the scientific evidence on the associations between selected known environmental and occupational risks for cancer in Europe, including air pollution, second-hand smoke, chemicals in the environment and environmental radiation (including indoor radon). (europa.eu)
  • These exogenous risk factors include lifestyle-related ones (e.g. tobacco use, obesity, diet and alcohol consumption), some infections, environmental and occupational exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, UV radiation, indoor radon and air pollution. (europa.eu)
  • The scope of the Strategic Approach includes (a) environmental, economic, social, health and labour aspects of chemical safety and (b) agricultural and industrial chemicals, with a view to promoting sustainable development and covering chemicals at all stages of their life-cycle, including in products. (who.int)
  • Pursuant to section 68 or 74 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA), the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Health conducted a screening assessment of four of five substances referred to collectively under the Chemicals Management Plan as the Furan Compounds Group. (canada.ca)
  • The causes vary and include everything from chronic exposure to cancer-causing toxins, poor diet and lifestyle habits, morbid obesity, and environmental carcinogens, including the chemicals doused on industrial agriculture crops. (newstarget.com)
  • As for environmental carcinogens, these include air pollutants, water pollutants, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, an array of dangerous chemicals, and occupational hazards. (newstarget.com)
  • This class of chemicals is a known carcinogen and has serious detrimental effects on animals and humans. (mycelx.com)
  • Redressing environmental injustice starts when we demand full disclosure of the chemicals used in our building products, the principle at the core of the Health Product Declaration and HBN's Pharos Project. (healthybuilding.net)
  • The illegal emissions included carcinogens, smog-forming chemicals, and other hazardous air pollutants discharged in excess of limits in the facilities' Clean Air Act permits. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Environmental Health Criteria 192 First draft prepared by Dr G.J. van Esch, Bilthoven, Netherlands Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Health Organization, and produced within the framework of the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals. (inchem.org)
  • Exxon's illegal air emissions included carcinogens, other toxic air pollutants, and respiratory irritants like sulfur dioxide and ozone-forming chemicals. (environmentamerica.org)
  • How to use this book -- Key to abbreviations and acronyms -- Toxic and hazardous chemicals and carcinogens, A to Z. (epa.gov)
  • Gene mutations causing cancer may result from the damaging effects of chemicals, sunlight, medications, viruses, or other environmental agents. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in applying dosim- etry models to chemicals, in addition to the criteria air pollutants,* in order to estimate dose in various portions of the respiratory tract. (cdc.gov)
  • and contribution to the burden of cancer posure to chemicals and pollutants medical diagnostics (e.g. exposure to worldwide ( 2 ). (who.int)
  • Her father, Jerry Ensminger, a retired master sergeant, found out after the fact that these cancer-causing chemicals, including TCE, a known carcinogen, were found at the Marine base and could be an explanation for why his daughter developed and died of leukemia. (medscape.com)
  • and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Pollution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Environmental pollution has become a serious issue of concern across the world. (benthamscience.com)
  • Among these, microbes have emerged as one of the potential indicators of environmental pollution, as they are more sensitive to trace levels of pollutants than plants/ animals/other organisms. (benthamscience.com)
  • The natural abundance of these indicator microbes has given us an opportunity to monitor environmental pollution before any major undesirable accidents occur. (benthamscience.com)
  • Based on these microbial indicators, various easy and rapid biosensors have been developed to monitor environmental pollution. (benthamscience.com)
  • Studies suggest that higher breast cancer rates in urban areas persist after accounting for the prevalence of known risk factors, leading to speculation that urban environmental exposures, such as air pollution, may play a role in the etiology of breast cancer. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Natural News) Plastic pollution is a huge environmental problem. (naturalnews.com)
  • According to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, people are "currently releasing more chemical and plastic pollution into the environment than Earth can support. (naturalnews.com)
  • Natural News) Air pollution is an increasingly global problem as more and more industries produce massive amounts of pollutants that bring detrimental effects on air quality and ecosystems. (naturalnews.com)
  • The lawsuit , filed by the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project, alleges that while the plant was operating without pollution controls, the company was required under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act - commonly referred to as the "Superfund" law - to report other hazardous releases. (alleghenyfront.org)
  • But the environmental groups say the company also should have been reporting releases of other hazardous air pollutants to the National Response Center, a pollution reporting clearinghouse run by the U.S. Coast Guard. (alleghenyfront.org)
  • This is an interesting source of pollution, because emissions from dryer vents are essentially unregulated and unmonitored," said lead author Anne Steinemann, a UW professor of civil and environmental engineering and of public affairs. (eponline.com)
  • Environmental and occupational exposure to air pollution, radon, UV radiation, chemical carcinogens, asbestos and other risks contributes significantly to the high burden of cancer in Europe. (europa.eu)
  • Environmental and occupational cancer risks can be reduced by cleaning up pollution and changing behaviours: decreasing these risks will lead to a fall in the numbers of cancer cases and deaths. (europa.eu)
  • As Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has noted in past blogs , leaks, venting and flaring of natural gas from oil and gas activities contribute to ground-level ozone ("smog") and toxic air pollution. (edf.org)
  • AAs can also be found in environmental pollution such as diesel exhaust, combustion of wood chips and rubber, and substances in charcoal barbequed meats and fish (Debruin, L. S., et. (cdc.gov)
  • Air pollution, both outdoor and indoor, is the most widely investigated and most important contributor to the environmental cancer burden in human populations. (who.int)
  • It was later decided to include nitions of carcinogens were based on pollution, occupational exposure to a review of lifestyle factors that are the January 2013 list of agents classified carcinogenic compounds, and lifestyle known to influence cancer risk. (who.int)
  • The review included exposure to environmental agents carcinogenic to humans (International Agency for Research on Cancer classification), as well as lifestyle factors known to affect cancer risk. (who.int)
  • The presence of industrial facilities in Newport County raises concerns about environmental exposures to carcinogenic pollutants. (ucreview.com)
  • Diesel fumes are presumed carcinogens since they contain carcinogenic materials. (scienceteacherprogram.org)
  • It is identified by many agencies as a possible/probable human carcinogen based on animal studies, though some US states, like Oregon, believe there is insufficient evidence to warrant a carcinogenic label. (greencleanerscouncil.com)
  • Fluoranthene has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a group 3 carcinogen , "not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans"[1] , however it was found to possess carcinogenic properties in case of newborn mice according to short-term lung tumor assay (Busby et al. (wikipedia.org)
  • Drinking-water, or water used for agricultural or recreational activities, can be polluted by naturally occurring carcinogenic contaminants, such as arsenic, or by anthropogenic pollutants, including chlorinated agents, perfluorinated alkylated substances, and metals. (who.int)
  • The prevention of exposure to carcinogenic environmental pollutants requires both regulatory action and community commitment. (who.int)
  • The Working Group evaluated PFOA as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) on the basis of sufficient evidence for cancer in experimental animals and strong mechanistic evidence that PFOA exhibits key characteristics of carcinogens in exposed humans. (who.int)
  • For example, with regard to emissions standards, most states follow the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants established by EPA (in Volume 40, Part 61 of the Code of Federal Regulations) for asbestos emissions. (cdc.gov)
  • EPA's own National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment shows that motor vehicle emissions are the largest source of hazardous air pollutants nationwide, and that these pollutants substantially increase the risks of cancer and other serious adverse health effects for millions of Americans. (earthjustice.org)
  • For years, the EPA has promised the public and the courts that it will reduce toxic emissions from motor vehicles - just not yet," said Jim Pew, attorney for Earthjustice, who is representing the environmental groups in the case. (earthjustice.org)
  • The agency committed to implement a "Technical Analysis Plan" to obtain the missing information and then to issue a proposed rule to reduce emissions of hazardous air pollutants from motor vehicles by July 1, 2003, taking final action by July 1, 2004. (earthjustice.org)
  • Monitoring and regulating emissions from these facilities, as well as encouraging cleaner industrial practices, can help reduce environmental contributors to cancer. (ucreview.com)
  • Cadmium emissions to the environment are normally transported continually between the three main environmental compartments, air, water and soils, but a steady state flux is probably achieved and the general levels can reasonably well be established. (ajol.info)
  • We focus a lot of attention on how to reduce emissions of pollutants from automobiles," Steinemann said. (eponline.com)
  • The State of Wyoming is also challenged by the need to reduce emissions from the natural gas industry which has not traditionally been regulated for ozone nonattainment problems….Therefore, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) has already identified the sources that require controls such as drill rigs, pneumatic pumps, dehydration units and small heaters. (edf.org)
  • Similarly, a 2009 study found that summertime emissions of smog-forming pollutants from oil and gas sources in the Barnett Shale were roughly comparable to emissions from all of the motor vehicles in the Dallas Fort-Worth area. (edf.org)
  • The company installed additional controls at the Lakewood plant in 2018, which significantly reduced ethylene oxide emissions, state environmental regulators found . (cpr.org)
  • Shell cut its emissions from large upset events - those releasing enough pollutants to trigger the State's public reporting requirements - by about 95%, from an average of approximately 1 million pounds per year before the lawsuit to about 45,000 pounds in the third year following the settlement. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Nutrition and environmental health : the influence of nutritional status on pollutant toxicity and carcinogenicity / Vol. 1, The vitamins. (who.int)
  • We need better data on Europe-wide exposure to environmental and occupational cancer risks and need more evidence on the risk arising from low levels of exposure to multiple carcinogens. (europa.eu)
  • The clear benefit of sulforaphane in preventing oral cancer in mice raises hope that this well-tolerated compound also may act to prevent oral cancer in humans who face chronic exposure to environmental pollutants and carcinogens," stated Daniel E. Johnson, PhD, senior scientist in the UPCI Head and Neck Cancer Program, in a press release. (drbicuspid.com)
  • The defi- such as exposure to environmental air humans. (who.int)
  • EPA has classified cadmium as a Group B1, probable human carcinogen. (ajol.info)
  • Reports filed with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) show that the TVA's Kingston coal plant dumped into the Emory River in 2008 an estimated 140,000 pounds of arsenic contained in coal ash - more than twice the reported amount of the toxin discharged into U.S. waterways from all U.S. power plants in 2007. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • some are considered persistent organic pollutants which are known to accumulate in the body. (cityofhope.org)
  • On average, urban dwellers are exposed to VOC levels, including persistent organic pollutants (POPs), that are 2 - 20 times as high as outdoor levels, due mainly to the fact that they spend 90 percent of their time indoors. (stanford.edu)
  • Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants that were heavily produced in the industry from 1920 to 1979. (mycelx.com)
  • Both PFOA and PFOS are listed in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. (who.int)
  • Industrial air pollutants, including lead, mercury and asbestos all have associated World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines in recognition of their toxicity.Gaseous pollutants of IAQ concern also have varied anthropogenic and natural sources. (filtsep.com)
  • Asbestos is a hazardous air pollutant regulated by EPA to protect public health. (ercweb.com)
  • The limited data on occupational exposure suggests that the greatest risks for workers in the construction industry are likely to be from environmental dust and related air pollutants. (who.int)
  • However, all environmental and occupational cancer risk factors are largely preventable. (europa.eu)
  • This web report provides a brief overview of the evidence on the environmental and occupational determinants of cancer in Europe and of EU policy responses. (europa.eu)
  • Reducing environmental and occupational risks is essential if we are to achieve the goals of comprehensive cancer prevention initiatives, such as those in Europe's Beating Cancer plan. (europa.eu)
  • The high prevalence of cancer in Europe can be explained by a variety of causes and factors [1] , including lifestyle (notably smoking, alcohol consumption and diet), ageing and chronic exposure to some pharmaceuticals, pollutants and other occupational and environmental carcinogens [2] (Madia et al. (europa.eu)
  • 2019). A significant proportion of cancers in Europe are attributable to preventable environmental and occupational risks. (europa.eu)
  • Reducing environmental and occupational risks for cancer requires an understanding of their nature, sources, magnitude, routes of exposure, effect and distribution. (europa.eu)
  • 192) 1.Flame retardants - toxicity 2.Occupational exposure 3.Environmental exposure I.Series ISBN 92 4 157192 6 (NLM Classification: WA 250) ISSN 0250-863X The World Health Organization welcomes requests for permission to reproduce or translate its publications, in part or in full. (inchem.org)
  • International, national, and regional authorities have developed increasingly stringent restrictions on occupational exposure, use in consumer products, and guidance values for environmental media and drinking-water. (who.int)
  • The study also found that the proportion of these urinary metabolites varied considerably depending on whether the subjects had high or low acute exposures or whether the subjects had general environmental exposures (i.e., not agricultural workers). (who.int)
  • The new Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data submitted to the EPA by TVA also show that the Kingston ash spill deposited nearly 320 tons of vanadium in the Emory River, or more than seven times the total discharge of this toxic pollutant from all power plants in 2007. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • An air-quality permit covers emission of standard air pollutants like particulates and carbon monoxide, as well as toxics and carcinogens. (methowvalleynews.com)
  • Methods: We obtained lifetime air toxics cancer risk data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxic Assessment and sociodemographic data from the American Community Survey. (cdc.gov)
  • Additionally, it is considered a pollutant of serious concern due to its high toxicity. (naturalnews.com)
  • Environmental pollutants--toxicity. (who.int)
  • Two of the incentives for this work have been to derive a better charac- terization of the functions of the different regions of the respiratory tract and, in addition, to develop improved methods for assessing toxicity in each, ulti- mately supporting the regulation of potentially toxic substances in occupa- tional and environmental situations. (cdc.gov)
  • The main thrust of the research group is to investigate the interaction of cellular biomolecules with a variety of chemical species that include drugs, novel plant medicinal compounds, carcinogens and environmental pollutants. (uu.se)
  • The Merck Index contains over 10,000 monographs with information relating to compounds of significance in research, commerce and environmental impact. (lu.se)
  • Greater exposure to these pollutants likely increases respiratory illnesses and cardiovascular disease, he said. (mynorthwest.com)
  • Certain particles and air pollutants are linked to an increased risk of lung cancer, respiratory diseases, and other cancers. (newstarget.com)
  • AIMS: To determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms in children and to examine associations with environmental factors in the Bay of Plenty. (who.int)
  • The chemical is often found in baby products, shampoos, body washes and lotions, and Environmental Protection Agency data shows areas of Long Island have the highest levels of 1,4-dioxane detected in the country in public water. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents in Lakewood that long-term exposure to a toxic chemical used by a local commercial sterilizing company could significantly increase their lifetime risk of cancer. (cpr.org)
  • UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON CHEMICAL SAFETY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA 192 Flame Retardants: A General Introduction This report contains the collective views of an international group of experts and does not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated policy of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organisation, or the World Health Organization. (inchem.org)
  • In the interest of all users of the Environmental Health Criteria monographs, readers are requested to communicate any errors that may have occurred to the Director of the International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, in order that they may be included in corrigenda. (inchem.org)
  • They, with the help of National Environmental Law Center, sued Exxon for violating the Clean Air Act more than 16,000 times at its Baytown, Texas, refinery and chemical plant. (environmentamerica.org)
  • David O. Carpenter (born January 27, 1937) is a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he is the director of the Institute for Health and the Environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • We take on many of the biggest environmental and health challenges of our time and stick with them. (earthjustice.org)
  • It is classified as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization 's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer . (naturalnews.com)
  • This work was supported by the Pacific Life Foundation Marine Mammal Research Fund at the Ocean Foundation, National Institute of Environmental Health Services grant ES016893 (J.P.W. (vin.com)
  • The content is solely the responsibility of the presenters and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences or the National Institutes of Health. (vin.com)
  • These products can affect not only personal health, but also public and environmental health. (eponline.com)
  • Experts call it national suicide from an environmental and health perspective. (mynorthwest.com)
  • Study results may be used to inform public health efforts to eliminate sociodemographic inequalities in exposure to air pollutants. (cdc.gov)
  • When the EPA released an updated version of its nationwide assessment on health risks from air pollutants in 2018, the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment launched a more thorough investigation of operations at Terumo BCT Sterilization Services. (cpr.org)
  • occupation of these areas dominate daily life in the industrialised world.Environmental and health protection of the atmospheric environment across the world has focused largely on the outdoor environment, including large-scale climate change considerations and localised urban air quality. (filtsep.com)
  • It is important for consumers and cleaners to keep in mind that lack of data does not guarantee lack of environmental or health risk. (greencleanerscouncil.com)
  • Over the past twenty years it has been the subject of intense environmental and public health scrutiny, and its use has been scheduled for a phase out in California. (greencleanerscouncil.com)
  • Much more needs to be done to transform this industry into a force for environmental health and justice in every community. (healthybuilding.net)
  • The penalty payment was used entirely to fund environmental, public health and education projects in Harris County, including a solar energy demonstration project by the Houston Advanced Research Center and the replacement of scores of polluting school buses with cleaner burning engines. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The penalty provided essential seed money to start a multi-year environmental health project in the Ship Channel area, in which Baylor College of Medicine is collaborating with existing clinics and hospitals to provide clinical services (including a mobile health clinic) to underserved populations. (environmentamerica.org)
  • This publication was made possible by grant number 5 U01 ES02617- 15 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, USA, and by financial support from the European Commission. (inchem.org)
  • The purpose of these meetings is to collect community concerns and share health messages about local environmental issues. (cdc.gov)
  • Indoor pollutants can be categorised usefully as being particulate or gaseous. (filtsep.com)
  • Important gaseous pollutants generated externally include sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxides (acidic irritants), aeolian transported pesticides and tropospheric ozone. (filtsep.com)
  • The former constitutes the environmental biology research where effect of toxic components (heavy metals, pathogens, pollutants, radiation, carcinogens) on cells and their cellular responseand remediation potential by natural therapeutics is studied. (jnu.ac.in)
  • Modeled annual average ambient air concentrations of 24 MGCs from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were linked to participants' addresses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • the United States Environmental Protection Agency Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship Assistance Agreement No. MA-91739301-0 and the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation (J.P.W.). Marine mammal and sea turtle cell line development and use by the Wise Laboratory for Environmental and Genetic Toxicology is performed under National Marine Fisheries Service Permit #16305. (vin.com)
  • On April 3, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is due to finalize national emission standards to limit some of the harmful air pollutants discharged from a variety of oil and gas activities. (edf.org)
  • Under a recent settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a local food production manufacturer will be required to pay a penalty and fully comply with environmental community-right-to-know requirements regarding its use of anhydrous ammonia within its Lawrence, Mass. facility. (ercweb.com)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that First Team Restoration Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has agreed to pay a $74,500 penalty for violations of the Clean Air Act. (ercweb.com)
  • The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (cdc.gov)
  • The Kingston facility singlehandedly discharged more than of chromium, lead, manganese, and nickel into the Emory River last year than reported discharges of those pollutants from the entire U.S. power industry in 2007. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • 2015). However, what we already know about the links between environmental risks and cancers can contribute to better policymaking and empower citizens to act. (europa.eu)
  • A 2021 analysis by ProPublica showed roughly a quarter of the nearly 100 commercial sterilizers the EPA regulates have exposed nearby residents to unacceptable cancer risks and found ethylene oxide contributes more to cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant released by American industry. (cpr.org)
  • Current state of the art in the environmental field for airborne VOCs involves passing an air sample through a sorbent cartridge, or collecting it inside an evacuated stainless steel canister. (stanford.edu)
  • In 2010, the environmental groups negotiated a similar settlement with Chevron Phillips, requiring stringent emission cuts, operational upgrades, and a $2 million penalty. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Natural News) Diet, genetics and environmental factors all have a hand in determining one's risk for cancer, one of the deadliest chronic diseases around the globe. (naturalnews.com)
  • Albany's South End has been designated an "environmental justice area" by DEC, meaning that it is an area that bears a disproportionate impact of adverse environmental impacts. (catskillmountainkeeper.org)
  • If these pollutants react with other substances in the air and form a new compound they are called secondary pollutants. (scienceteacherprogram.org)
  • Environmental Justice can only be achieved when we build with products that contain fewer hazardous substances, thereby reducing those substances in fenceline communities like Mossville, regardless of whether there is an exposure risk to building occupants. (healthybuilding.net)
  • Clean water activists hope that water suppliers will remove an industrial pollutant under new water standards adopted Thursday in New York. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • But a recent report from an environmental advocacy group cautions that millions across the US could be facing a greater risk of cancer due to contaminated tap water. (naturalnews.com)
  • A study conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) revealed that tap water in the U.S. contains an alarming number of pollutants including carcinogens. (rusco.com)
  • to assess the feasibility of the removal of various types of water pollutants using novel nanoparticle and biomass based adsorbents. (uu.se)
  • Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal and is considered to be an environmental pollutant. (ajol.info)
  • Combining modeled ambient air concentrations with data from a large prospective cohort of California women with over 15 years of follow-up, we examined the relationship between breast cancer incidence and modeled concentrations of air pollutants shown to be mammary gland carcinogens (MGCs). (biomedcentral.com)
  • On such matters as environmental carcinogens, nutrition, stress, and so forth the American Cancer Society is virtually silent. (thesunmagazine.org)
  • Motor vehicles also produce more than one million tons of other hazardous air pollutants. (earthjustice.org)
  • This is on top of the 963 tons of pollutants that were discharged into the air by Sasol and other companies within the 70669 ZIP code last year. (healthybuilding.net)