Volatile Organic Compounds

Lynne Peeples

Unwelcome Wells: Is Natural Gas Drilling Poisoning Our Children's Air?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Fracking, Voc, Volatile Organic Compounds, Hydrofracturing, Hydrofracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Red Hawk, Erie Rising, Benzene-Contamination, Green News

If everything goes as planned, Angie Nordstrum's son may look out the window of his second-grade classroom at Red Hawk Elementary this fall and see a ...

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"IRAQ: An Environmental Cesspool"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baghdad, Iraq, Afghanistan, Dod, Burn-Pit Exposure Data, Warrior Transition Unit at Brooke Army Medical Center, Ft. Bragg, Burn Pits in Iraq, Volatile Organic Compounds, The Transational Genomics Research Institute, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Depleted Uranium, Veterans, Tricare, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Presidio of Monterey, Improvised Explosive Device, Jrotc, Chemotherapy, Camel Cigarettes, R. B. Stuart, Cancer, North Carolina, Benzene, Solider, Adrenalectomy, Army Human Intelligence Collector, The VA, Carcinogens, Cushing's Disease, Texas, Camp Rustamiyah, The Army Times, The Veterans Affairs Department, Disabled American Veterans, Stage IV Cancer, Army SGT. Amanda Older, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, Dioxins, University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center, Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma, World News
R. B. Stuart

Burn pit tests in war zones have shown that the fires release dioxins, benzene and volatile organic compounds, including substances known to cause cancer.

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Life Cycle: Life After Desk

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chairs, Landfills, Volatile Organic Compounds, Desk, Reduce, Glues, Environmental, Office Furniture, Green Office, Recycle, Wooden, Varnishes, Environment, Waste, Reuse, Sarah Smarsh, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Vocs, Green News
Simran Sethi

Often, the greenest consumer route is not buying new products made with Earth-friendly methods but rather scoring used products made with traditional, possibly heinous methods. Reduce, reuse, then recycle.

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