The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will deny calls to set drinking water safety standards for the chemical perchlorate, documents show.
The federal agency says there’s no need to legally regulate the chemical, a component of rocket fuel found in soil and groundwater that affects thyroid development in newborns and young children, a draft of the decision, obtained by The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO), recommends. (more)
I found a wonderful blog that I really just had to share with my readers. Whenever I see people who drop trash on the ground it just does something to me, kind of like makes me g-r-r-r. While I know that it is not good for inner peace (OM), in my heart I just know it is wrong, the trash dropping. The blog’s description is The Earth is Not A Trash Can. I have seen folks roll down their car windows to toss their waste into the streets, come on people. I mean. Anyway I digress, so when I saw the topic of this blog, for me, I knew I had to pass it on.
And then there are the school children who eat their snacks and mindlessly toss the wrappings on the ground. The earth is our mother. Everything comes from the earth and without respecting and honoring the earth we cannot truly respect ourselves.
If you have items that need to be disposed of while in your car, keep a small plastic bag in your car, place your trash in it and empty it out with your weekly trash collection at home. Avoid eating while out walking around. This helps you to avoid empty calories and not have trash to drop off. Or eat and simply hold onto the packaging until you get to the next trash can.
Here’s to finding ways to walk more gently on our earth mother.
Autism cases continue to rise raising questions among parents and researchers. A prime culprit seems to be mercury. Mercury in various forms such as methyl mercury ends in the bottom of our rivers and lakes. Mercury vapor effects air quality.
These toxic elements enter the environment as a result of industrial pollution. It is difficult to dispose of them. There are serious risks. Out of sight does not make this poison disappear. These wastes can affect our lives, rob us of our health, can lead to neurological problems and affect our children. A recent study by the University of Texas, Health Science at San Antonio. How do mercury emissions affect the unborn, pregnant women and toddlers? It is a question not often asked. But it turns up serious links to environmental mercury and autism.
Where one lives and how it impacts one’s life and by extension the world,is the basis of the world view contained in Feng Shui. In indigenous societies the world over, it was known that there is no “out there”. What ever you do to someone or something you are ultimately doing to yourself. Life is a circle.
Solutions
Do your best not to live near by industrial facilities.
Do your best to live free of products that produce toxic waste. Pass on the knowing, that this matters.
Study highlights
• Mercury-release data examined were from 39 coal-fired power plants and 56 industrial facilities in Texas.
• Autism rates examined were from 1,040 Texas school districts.
• For every 1,000 pounds of mercury released by all industrial sources in Texas into the environment in 1998, there was a corresponding 2.6 percent increase in autism rates in the Texas school districts in 2002.
• For every 1,000 pounds of mercury released by Texas power plants in 1998, there was a corresponding 3.7 percent increase in autism rates in Texas school districts in 2002.
• Autism prevalence diminished 1 percent to 2 percent for every 10 miles from the source.
• Mercury exposure through fish consumption is well documented, but very little is known about exposure routes through air and ground water.
• There is evidence that children and other developing organisms are more susceptible to neurobiological effects of mercury.
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