{"id":3315,"date":"2023-03-07T08:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:37:08","slug":"remnants-of-two-banned-insecticides-nearly-eliminated-in-great-lakes-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/remnants-of-two-banned-insecticides-nearly-eliminated-in-great-lakes-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnants of Two Banned Insecticides Nearly Eliminated in Great Lakes Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Two banned insecticides known to linger in the atmosphere have been all but eliminated from North America\u2019s Great Lakes region, a study finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor once we can report something positive,\u201d Marta Venier, an environmental chemist at Indiana University and coauthor of the study,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehn.org\/air-pollution-in-the-great-lakes-2659413909.html\">told&nbsp;<em>Environmental Health News<\/em><\/a>. \u201cA few of the chemicals we\u2019ve been measuring for a long time are well underway to being eliminated from the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists analyzed data from a U.S.-Canadian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.est.2c08318\">monitoring program<\/a>&nbsp;that has tracked atmospheric concentrations of insecticides at several sites in the Great Lakes region. Measurements, taken every 12 days, date back to the early 1990s. Three of the insecticides studied \u2014 DDT, chlordane, and hexachlorobenzene \u2014 have persisted in the atmosphere, while two others \u2014 lindane and endosulfan \u2014 have nearly vanished. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.est.2c08318\">findings<\/a>&nbsp;were published in the journal&nbsp;<em>Environmental Science and Technology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, the EPA banned the agricultural use of lindane, which has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ntp.niehs.nih.gov\/ntp\/roc\/content\/profiles\/lindane.pdf\">linked<\/a>&nbsp;to anemia, lung cancer, and lymphoma. And in 2010, the agency began to phase out the use of endosulfan, which experts say may&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nj.gov\/health\/eoh\/rtkweb\/documents\/fs\/0824.pdf\">damage<\/a>&nbsp;the liver and kidneys, and can, with repeated exposure, impact the brain, causing convulsions and loss of coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite the fact that it took a very long time, all of the measures that have been enacted have worked,\u201d Venier said.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/banned-insecticides-eliminated-great-lakes\"><em>Yale School of the Environment<\/em><\/a> (March 3, 2023).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two banned insecticides known to linger in the atmosphere have been all but eliminated from North America\u2019s Great Lakes region, a study finds. \u201cFor once we can report something positive,\u201d Marta Venier, an environmental chemist at Indiana University and coauthor of the study,&nbsp;told&nbsp;Environmental Health News. \u201cA few of the chemicals we\u2019ve been measuring for a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NPA","author_link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/author\/moore\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}