Environmental terrorism

This system will have a dual function. It will enhance not only emergency preparedness, antiterrorist activity but also the public health system. Such a view is suggested by Marmagas et al.[10] about possible connection between preparedness against biological terrorism, public health infrastructure, chronic disease and environmental health tracking network. 

Marmagas S.W., Kind L. R.,Public Health s Response to a changed World September 11, Biological Terrorism, and the Development of an Environmental Health Tracking Network. Amer. J. of Public Health, 2003, 93, 8, 1226-30. 

NON-RULED MARKET ECONOMY AS A SOURCE OF CHEMICAL TERRORISM. AUTOMOTIVE FUEL QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY... 

At the environmental objects toxicity definition with offered method will allow during short time to estimate the toxicity degree of of various objects after eco-disasters or acts of terrorism, with use of the toxic agents. Besides, suggested method does not demand a sterility and allows to use materials from the objects of the external environment, which are not sterile. 

The increasing threat of international terrorism was one motivation for development of ISE for the determination of Cs+ in environmental samples [80]. In an event such as a Chernobyl-type disaster or the explosion of a dirty bomb , cesium is one of the most important reaction products and is expected to be the most significant threat to public health [81]. With a detection limit of 10 8M, the developed electrode is sensitive enough for this application and the successful detection of cesium activities in spiked water samples has been demonstrated (see Procedure 2 in CD accompanying this book). In addition, the electrode shows excellent selectivity to cesium in the presence of high levels of strontium, an important interferent originating from nuclear explosions. 

The RMBC assessed its regional public-health priorities and developed the following nine demonstration projects on the basis of the needs of the community possible correlation of exposure to arsenic in drinking water and type 2 diabetes, a spot blood metals-analysis feasibility study, health-clinic samples for chemical-terrorism baselines, of relationship between urine arsenic and metal concentrations and drinking-water exposure, assessment of exposure to VOCs from subsurface volatilization, cotinine concentrations associated with environmental tobacco smoke, assessment of exposure to mercury from ingestion of fish, analysis of radionuclides in urine, and biomonitoring of organophosphorus pesticides in urine (Utah Department of Health 2006). 

Another channel for laundering dirty drug money — a channel yet to be compromised by federal investigative agencies — is important to note here. This is the use of tax-exempt foundations to finance terrorism and environmentalism. One immediately relevant case makes the point. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that there are at least 110 American chemical plants that could subject a minimum of 1 million people in surrounding areas to clouds of toxic gas if attacked. Terrorism experts point to a two-mile industrial corridor in northern New Jersey where a chemical plant that processes chlorine gas is an ideal terrorist target due to its position on the very doorstep of Manhattan, where 12 million people live within a 14-mile radius of the plant. Along the same corridor... 

B. Environmental Contaminants Associated with Industrial or Agricultural Terrorism... 

Heavy metals are routinely used in various manufacturing processes and are contained within many products commonly used by humans. Acts of terrorism have the potential to increase the environmental exposure of humans and animals to heavy metals by targeting industrial complexes and sewage treatment facilities. Because a number of heavy metals have the potential to affect different stages of reproductive function by different mechanisms of action, the adverse effects of metals on male and female reproduction and embryonic and fetal development will be discussed separately. 

CEH/CID (Committee on Environmental Health and Committee on Infectious Diseases) (2000). Chemical-hiological terrorism and its impact on children a subject review. Pediatrics 105 662-70. 

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