Pollution & Toxics - Maps & Graphics

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Carbon Dioxide Pollution and Travel Methods

CO2 emissions per person for air, car, and carpool travel.

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Chemical Structure of PCBs, PBDEs, and Thyroxine

The structure of three similar chemicals, PCBs, PBDEs, and Thyroxine.

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PBDE Levels in Humans Since the 1980s

Since the 1980s, levels of the toxic flame retardants, PBDEs, in human tissue and fluids in North America have risen 20 to 30 times.

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Median PBDE Levels in Northwest Women

Sightline's study shows that levels of PBDEs, or toxic flame retardants, in the Pacific Northwest are 20 to 40 times higher than levels in Japan and Sweden.

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PBDEs in the Bodies of 40 Northwest Women

The individual levels of the toxic flame retardants, PBDEs, found in Sightline's 2004 study of 40 Northwest women from British Columbia, Montana, Washington, and Oregon.

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Mile Traveled

What's the cleanest way to travel--car, flight, bus, or bike? The answer might surprise you.

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Rising Levels of the Toxic Flame Retardants, PBDEs (animation)

A flash animation of the results from Sightline's 2004 study of persistent bioaccumulative toxics. It found high levels of the toxic chemicals, PBDEs, in the bodies of 40 Northwest women tested.

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Urban Air Pollution Traveling to Mount Rainier (animated map)

A chronicle of urban smog and vehicle pollution traveling from Puget Sound to Mount Rainier National Park in Washington.

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Average PBDE and PCB Levels in Northwest Women

Levels of the toxic chemicals PBDEs in our bodies are beginning to exceed levels of PBDEs, banned in the 1970s.