cancer rates

Trump’s EPA Is Undermining New Law to Regulate Chemicals

Community Rights, Food, Health, News, Resources / January 7, 2019

“Nevertheless, the rules outlining these prioritization and risk evaluation processes have been “significantly narrowed” under the Trump administration, excluding important “pathways of exposure” that leave vulnerable populations like pregnant women and children especially susceptible to harm, according to Eve Gartner, a litigator in the Healthy Communities Program at Earthjustice, an environmental organization currently litigating the …

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170 Million in U.S. Drink Radioactive Tap Water. Trump Nominee Faked Data to Hide Cancer Risk.

Groundwater, Health, News / January 2, 2019

2018 Victories: We forced this candidate to withdraw…thanks EWG EWG Tips: Protecting Your Water from Radioactivity EWG’s Tap Water Database displays the results of utility tests for radioactivity between 2010 and 2015. Small water systems aren’t required to test for radioactivity as frequently. If your water provider is not listed, contact the utility for records …

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Interactive cancer maps

Climate, Health, News / April 21, 2018

Click to access below or cut and paste to use https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/map/map.withimage.php?99&001&001&00&0&01&0&1&5&0#results Ineractive cancer maps now available… Interactive Maps Interactive Maps Data Options Area:— choose area —US by stateUS by countyAlabama countiesAlaska Boroughs and Census AreasArizona countiesArkansas countiesCalifornia countiesColorado countiesConnecticut countiesDelaware countiesDistrict of ColumbiaFlorida countiesGeorgia countiesHawaii countiesIdaho countiesIllinois countiesIndiana countiesIowa countiesKansas countiesKentucky countiesLouisiana parishesMaine countiesMaryland countiesMassachusetts …

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NapaVision 2050 questions why there is a 69% rise in cancer rates since 2000

Climate, Health, News / April 16, 2017

From our friends at NapaVision 2050 Napa County has 22.8 children cancer deaths per 100,000 – a 69{5fc40a96f14c4a6aa4c2a32569b0a57dcc67c0b31eb04c341474283f11b6cdd2} rise between 2000 and 2012 – the highest in California and the second highest for adults with 488.9. Popular use pesticides have been linked to cancer, leukemia, kidney disease, Parkinson’s and more. Napa County had 115 breast …

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Ag Pesticides in California linked to childhood cancers…….

Health / May 26, 2016

With over 189 million pounds of pesticides, herbicides and insecticides applied to farm fields in the state, our most vulnerable population, children are facing huge health risks. How can anyone have a morally defensible position to continue these practices? Napa is #1 in childhood cancer rates and Sonoma is #3. According to the California Dept. of Pesticide …

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Vineyards and Chemicals Connected to high cancer rates in France

Big Wine, Climate / May 26, 2016

Once again corporate profits trump public health. In Sonoma County, several groups have tried to get this legislation made into adopted regulations. One example is the Paul Hobb’s expansion next to 5 schools in the Sebastopol area. He is a chemically intensive grape grower according to County pesticide reports and got away signing a MOU …

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