A FISH WITH CANCER RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH OF SUSQUEHANNA RIVER

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3. Fertilizers, nitrogen, phosphorus and other endocrine disruptors like ATRAZINE, the no. 1

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herbicide used in the US, second to GLYPHOSATE are directly impacting fish, frogs and other species who are developing lesions and tumors, and becoming intersex- males with eggs and females with high testosterone levels.

ATRAZINE is made by Swiss agro-chemical giant SYNGENTA and is banned in Europe since 2004 because of the harmful potential to groundwater. Herbicide and weed killer Glyphosate is in ROUND UP and its manufacturer is MONSANTO.
Herbicide ATRAZINE is heavily used for agriculture, suburban lawns and golf courses.

These and many other toxic chemicals are inadequately regulated by government agencies since the move to deregulation and pro business policies in the last 30 years. Besides these contaminants, others like bisphenol A and phthalates found in PLASTICS, are also contributing to dramatic rises in human health problems such as infertility, cancers of the prostate, breast and colon, and other chronic diseases.

FRACKING CHEMICALS that are known to get into rivers and waterways illegally and from negligence also impact the health of bays and rivers in PA and elsewhere; and animal and plant life. Birds like eagles eat the fish; it's all connected as environmentalists like pioneer Rachel Carson and others have studied. And we're obviously part of the system.

In the 2000s VP Dick Cheney pushed for the 'HALLIBURTON Loophole' on non disclosure of dangerous chemicals used in the shale oil extraction fracking industry.

RACHEL CARSON (1907-1964), marine biologist with the US Bureau of Fisheries, was right about the damage and destruction of life and ecosystems from synthetic pesticides and DDT in the 1940s-1960s. Her 1962 classic book, "Silent Spring" was read by President Kennedy in 1963. She endured and died from breast cancer in 1964. Her 1951 work, "The Sea around Us" is remarkable, I'm reading it now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082403051.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

See Halliburton Controversies & Environmental Issues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

*SUSQUEHANNA RIVER*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susquehanna_River