Tonight PBS showed "Trade Secrets," <http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/>, a Bill Moyers documentary about how the chemical industry has littered the ecosphere with poisons and covered it up. Moyers had a "body burden" test performed, and found he was personally carrying about 84 chemicals, including about 13 dioxins. This is apparently not an immediate problem for a man in his 60's, but would be worrisome in, for example, a pregnant woman, due to the likelihood that the chemicals would be passed to the fetus. On Tuesday, the Environmental Working Group will publish 50,000 chemical industry documents on <http://www.ewg.org/>. These documents were made available by the efforts of trial attorneys who sued chemical companies. The New York Times has an article on the chemical industry spin. <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/26/national/26CHEM.html>. Imagine what a President Al "Love Canal" Gore and a Democratically controlled Senate could have done with what might turn out to be a public relations brouhaha. Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
