This isn't helping, either

Since I seem to have returned to the subject of health care, at least briefly, let me throw this one up too. If we need to find a way to keep ourselves healthy without spending endless amounts of money doing it, how about we stop spewing quite so much poison into the air and water so we don't make ourselves quite so sick in the first place?

Toxic emissions have gone up in Canada: report

The amount of toxic chemicals being released into Canada's air, land and water has gone up by half in the last 10 years, says a new environmental report.

The study by two environmental groups, called Shattering the Myth of Pollution Progress in Canada, compares chemicals between 1995 and 2002, based on data from the federal government's National Pollutant Release Inventory.

The survey says emissions were up nationwide by 49 per cent between 1995 and 2002 -- the latest year for which figures are available. Toxic chemicals released into the air increased 21 per cent. While toxic chemicals released into the water had increased by 137 per cent.
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The report was prepared by the Environmental Defence and the Canadian Environmental Law Association. The groups say the increases came despite 1999 federal legislation that commits the government to preventing pollution.

"It is clear that, despite years of government and industry rhetoric, the goal of pollution prevention has yet to be realized in Canada," the report says.
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The report released Wednesday is available at the website www.pollutionwatch.org. It is based on data from the federal government's National Pollutant Release Inventory (July 2004 version).