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NEWS ABOUT: PCBs

PCBs stories: 3 news summaries

 Puget Sound's Orcas in Trouble 


Oct 25, 08 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The orca population in Washington’s Puget Sound is dropping, and scientists think a scarce food supply is to blame, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. A poor year for chinook salmon—and another is in the forecast—forced the killer whales to spend energy searching further afield for food. Two... More »

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food • whale • fat • salmon • Washington • starvation • PCBs • orca • killer whale • Puget Sound

Pollution Decreasing Off
US Shores: Study

Past 20 years have seen general contaminant decline

May 12, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Levels of pesticides and other toxic chemicals in US coastal waters are generally decreasing, McClatchy reports. A 20-year study by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Mussel Watch looked at levels of 140 chemicals and found decreasing trends. Laws banning many of the chemicals were passed in the 1970s, but... More »

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pollution • ocean • toxic chemicals • PCBs • DDT • industrial pollution • contaminated water

Polluted
Fish Swamp Great Lakes

Industrial chemicals raise contaminant levels into range unsafe for eating

Jul 6, 07 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Industrial chemicals contaminate many species of fish that populate the Great Lakes, making them too hazardous for safe human consumption, says a Canadian conservation group. "The lakes continue to be polluted to such an extent that human health is threatened," says a report released yesterday that lists industrial... More »

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environment • pollution • environmentalism • Canada • salmon • fish • pollutants • pike • trout • Great Lakes • Huron • Lake Superior • Lake Eerie • Lake Ontario • dioxins • PCBs • methyl mercury

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