Section 6.0: Links

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 05 APRIL 2014

Links

Good Overviews of Dioxin

• What is Dioxin? (Center for Health, Environment and Justice factsheet)
• World Health Organization Factsheet: Dioxins and their effects on human health
• Toxic Alert: Dioxin
• Health Effects of Dioxins

Dioxin documents available from the Center for Health, Environment and Justice:

• What is Dioxin? (factsheet)
• How to Start to Stop Dioxin Exposure in Your Community
• People's Report on Dioxin (November 1999)
  • Executive Summary
  • Technical Support Document) (lots of great information on dioxin sources and health effects)
• Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy (book available for $10)

Other Valuable Resources:

• Environmental Health Perspectives - free access to many scientific papers on dioxin health effects
• Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (dioxin studies)
  • Study links dioxin pollution in Arctic to North American sources (September 2000) (Executive Summary)
  • ">Dioxin Fallout in the Great Lakes: Where It Comes From; How to Prevent It; At What Cost (June 1996) (PDF "Internet" version)
• Our Stolen Future (the webpage continues where the book left off, documenting the harms of dioxins and other endocrine disrupting, hormone-mimicking chemicals)
• Environmental Health News (breaking news on recent science on environmental health)
• No Evidence of Dioxin Cancer Threshold (Cancer Weekly, 2003) -- (Or, in plain English, there's no known safe level of dioxin.)
• COPA's PCB Information Service (Very good collection of dioxin & PCB resources -- "Remediation Technologies, Health Effects, Regulations, Superfund Case Studies, References & More")
• Toxics and Environmental Health Links

Books on Dioxin:

• The Dioxin War: Truth And Lies About A Perfect Poison (July 2004) [background info on the book: here and here]
• Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival (March 1997)
• Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy (October 1995)

Endocrine Disruptors

• e.hormone: your gateway to the environment and hormones (Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities)
• EPA Endocrine Disruptors Research Initiative
• EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Web Site

Dioxins and Incineration:

• Metals as Catalysts for Dioxin Formation
• Continuous Emissions Monitoring of Dioxins
• Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs) Breed Dioxins (ESPs are a type of pollution control device used in some incinerators)

Anti-Incineration Links:

• Incineration and Incinerators-in-Disguise
• Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA)
  • Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology
  • An Industry Blowing Smoke: 10 Reasons Why Gasification, Pyrolysis & Plasma Incineration are Not "Green Solutions" (June 2009)
  • GAIA's Publications Page - Other Great Reports on Incineration Issues
  • GAIA's Incineration Factsheets
• Greenpeace Anti-Incineration Resources
  • Chlorine, Combustion and Dioxins: Does Reducing Chlorine in Wastes Decrease Dioxin Formation in Waste Incinerators?
  • The Problem with Incineration
  • Types of Incineration
  • Alternatives to Incineration
  • Incineration and Human Health Report
  • The Construction Cost of Municipal Waste Incinerators - Counter Measures against Dioxin. The Entire Picture of Domestic Expenditure and Its Trend (May 2001)
• Largest Known Dioxin Air Pollution Source (Harrisburg, PA Trash Incinerator) Closed in June 2003 (though a new incinerator has been built in its place)