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Hormonal Havoc
"Better living through chemistry" hasn't turned out to be the case for Florida alligators with subsized penises, Great Lakes fish with exploding thyroids and women worldwide with reduced fertility. Scientists are now increasingly pointing to such aberrations as evidence of the endocrine-disrupting effects of chemical pollution throughout our environment. They say PCBs, pesticides, dioxin and thousands of other common contaminants are mimicking natural hormones - most often estrogen - in fish, wildlife and humans ... »Read More

In This Issue

News Round-Up
Over 650,000 Acre-Feet of Bay Area Wastewater could be Recycled according to a draft feasibility study recently completed by BurRec ... »Read More

Inside the Agencies
Dioxin Dealings: "A permit to pollute" is what environmentalist Greg Karras called a settlement worked out between Tosco ... »Read More

Channel Islands Wake-Up
Boat wakes and fast-moving water are scouring away at the Delta's channel islands - intertidal areas left behind in the center of some channels ... »Read More

Research Moguls Reorient
Two programs charged with checking the Estuary's vital signs and reporting back to regulators on the status of its health are now updating their original goals ... »Read More

Hard Science
A Reference Envelope: A hunt for some of the Bay's cleaner corners, as compared with its toxic hot spots, has yielded five good candidates ... »Read More

Conflict Spawns Stewardship
When Don Whetstone went to the local water authority to report sighting noxious materials in Saratoga Creek in 1992, he had little idea ... »Read More

Dollars for Detention
Sacramento County is setting up seven new detention centers, but they're not for school bullies and truant teenagers, they're for stormwater pollutants ... »Read More

A Seaport Strategy for 2020
It was only a few years ago that planners thought the Bay shore's closing military bases, or any large flat area with deepwater access ... »Read More

Montezuma Permit Progress
The bovine species now gnashing the grass on 1,800 acres near the mouth of the Sacramento River will be supplanted by smaller ... »Read More


 
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