A backer of a Representative Town Meeting resolution Monday on cell towers said it sends a strong signal to state officials that the town doesn't want cell towers looming over schools.
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THE World Health Organization ranks tanning beds alongside cigarettes, arsenic and asbestos for their ability to cause cancer. The American Academy of Dermatology has declared that the evidence linking tanning beds to melanomas is overwhelming. Nancy Alderman is president of Environment and Human Health Inc., 1191 Ridge Road, North Haven 06473. E-mail: info@ehhi.org. via Tanning beds should be regulated – The New Haven Register. From the testimony of David R. Brown, ScD, Public Health Toxicologist, EHHI: “Two of the most hazardous components of wood smoke – particulate matter measuring 2.5, and smaller, and particulate matter 05 were significantly elevated inside homes near outdoor wood furnaces. High levels were present in every 24 hour period tested in every home.” Or …… NEWINGTON — Asthma is a leading cause of school absences Paul Hutcheon, director of the local health district, told the Town Council recently. To combat the disease, the Central Connecticut Health District is starting its state grant-funded “Putting On Airs” in-home visitation program to help families reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations due to asthma, he said. via Health District help families decrease asthma risks – The New Britain Herald. The day that someone in your neighborhood decides to install an outdoor wood furnace is the day that you will forever regret, according to an “In Your Corner” article, a consumer watchdog column that runs every Thursday in The Connecticut Post. These smoke-belching devices will take away one of your basic rights —- the right to breath reasonably clean air. Unfortunately, that’s not a right listed in the U.S. Constitution, so when your neighbor fires up his outdoor wood furnace, you’re pretty much on your own. via Smoke from outdoor wood furnaces burns neighbors – Connecticut Post. Environmental tests performed last week detected PCBs in the air of a closet at Eli Whitney Technical High School in Hamden, school principal Steve Anderson confirmed. The chemicals are believed to pose risks to immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems in children, but Anderson said the closet is “not normally opened.” via PCBs found in closet at Eli Whitney Tech – The New Haven Register. TORRINGTON — The state is sending an environmental firm to investigate the possibility of dangerous chemicals at Torrington’s Oliver Wolcott Technical High School. According to a release from Gov. Jodi Rell’s office, the school is among eight technical schools around the state being checked for polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, an oily liquid that was mixed into caulk prior to being banned in 1979. via Torrington’s Oliver Wolcott Tech may be contaminated – The Register Citizen. Connecticut farming leaders, including the head of a New London County group, will testify Monday against a bill that would prohibit use of outdoor wood-burning furnaces for half the year, The Norwich Bulletin reported. On the same day, Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) will be releasing the results of a study helps corroborate what many scientists have been claiming – that wood burning furnaces create conditions that are dangerous for human health and should be banned. The study will be released by Public Health Toxicologist David Brown, Sc.D., Public Health Toxicologist on Monday, March 8, 2010 at the Environment Committee’s hearing in room 1 D of the LOB on Hartford. The study, conducted by Environment and Human Health, Inc., will be released at the time of Dr. Brown’s testimony on BILL No. S.B. 126 — AN ACT ADDING WOOD SMOKE TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH NUISANCE CODE AND CONCERNING OUTDOOR WOOD-BURNING FURNACES. EHHI will also ask the Legislature to ban outdoor wood furnaces because of their harmful effects on human health. EHHI is asking for an exemption to the ban for agricultural uses with a set back of 1,000 feet for new units installed for agricultural purposes. Read the latest report in the Norwich Bulletin here::: Health advocates pushing for curbs on outdoor wood-burning furnaces will present a medical report Monday at a General Assembly hearing involving New London County farm leaders. via Health advocates to strike back in furnace fight – Norwich Bulletin.
This first-of-its-kind collection of 50 reports – one per state – helps community leaders see that where we live, learn, work, and play influences how healthy we are and how long we live. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute to develop these Rankings for each state’s counties. This model has been used to rank the health of counties in Wisconsin for the past six years. via New Haven among least healthy counties in the state | countyhealthrankings. University of Connecticut officials violated numerous federal laws when employees threw asbestos-laden materials from the window of the president’s office during a nearly half million-dollar renovation of his Gulley Hall office space. via Asbestos Removal From UConn President’s Office Violated Federal Regulations – Courant.com. Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) Is working to get more protective regulations concerning the uses of tanning salons. Connecticut currently requires children under 16 to have written permission from a parent in order to use tanning beds. The largest users of tanning salons are female teenagers and women in their early 20’s the group at the greatest risk for getting melanomas from tanning beds. We are learning that many teenagers who use tanning salons go many times a week. Tanning salons do not seem to lend themselves to a one or two time visit. Continue reading EHHI testifies on tanning beds’ links to skin cancer NEW HAVEN — Medications leaking into groundwater are producing strange effects on the frogs of Connecticut, effects that could be a harbinger of safety concerns for humans, too, researchers say. via For frogs, and perhaps humans, there’s something strange in the water – GreenwichTime. Groton – Nanoparticles – minute, man-made substances used in hundreds of consumer products – are being released into the environment with little understanding of the effect they may be having on plants, animals and people. via Avery Point professor using SeaGrant to study nanoparticles | The Day. Knight said the idea for the petition started over concern about his grandchildren playing in the yard or in parks. This got him thinking about the precautions that have to be taken to guard against ticks. via Westport petitioner seeks measures to curb deer population – Westport News. Groton – After dark last Wednesday, when Bluff Point Coastal Reserve was closed to dog-walkers, bird watchers, bikers, hikers and cross-country skiers, a team of hunters from the state Department of Environmental Protection entered the park to finish what’s become routine maintenance. via Annual deer hunt under way to thin herd at Bluff Point | The Day . Cell towers are going up on private, leased property on the coast of Connecticut, from Stamford/Greewich to Stonington. These are areas of close views of the Sound, marshes and lovely homes. Children live nearby. Children have been shown to be most susceptible to the harmful effects of cell towers, as reported in recent articles in The Economist magazine, which quoted from a review of more than 2,000 published studies (visit Web site www.hese-project.org and search for “cell tower”); and Business Week (“Cell phones Cause Brain Tumors,” August 2009. Log onto www.businessweek.com). While smaller is often better in the field of nanotechnology, where new materials and technologies are created on an atomic and molecular scale, the shrinking state budget has left Yale and University of Connecticut researchers scrambling to find other sources of funding. via State cuts stall Yale nanotech center | Yale Daily News. Smoking is a hard habit to break both for people and institutions; even hospitals have a hard time. But all Eastern Connecticut hospitals should be completely tobacco free by mid-year. via Region’s hospitals going smoke-free – Norwich Bulletin. Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) has now learned that at a recent meeting of the Central CT Health District, the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health (the Local Health Directors) explained why they and the Connecticut Department of Health do not want to — and will not — support Bill No 126. — because it would put “wood smoke” in the CT Public Health Nuisance Code. EHHI has also heard from anonymous sources that many local health directors have said they simply do not want to deal with wood smoke issues at all. With so many people in this state being made sick from wood smoke getting into their homes on a continual basis — what do the people in our state government, who have the power to protect people, —- think those without the power should do? What does the Connecticut Department of Health plan to do about this serious situation? Without the Connecticut Department of Health acting in a responsible way, who is to protect the public? Shouldn’t the public be asking the CT Department of Health why they won’t protect people from serious harm? Instead, the Connecticut Department of Health says they will propose “studying” the issue of continual wood smoke exposures to people that science already knows is harmful to health. Nancy Alderman, President Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has sent a warning shot across the bow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), saying he is concerned that it is not complying with terms of a settlement reached with his office over an antitrust investigation. via Blumenthal says group not complying with Lyme disease agreement | Greenwich Post. |
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