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EWG President and Co-founder Ken Cook voted Huffington Post’s Ultimate Green Game Changer
Posted by Leeann Brown in Featured Articles on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
Recognized for his efforts in utilizing new media to fight misinformation and weak legislation on toxics and human health, EWG president and co-founder Ken Cook was named one of Huffington Post’s Top Ten Ultimate Green Game Changers.
After weeks of voting, Arianna Huffington announced Ken as the winner...
A lot of Mercury in a lot of Fish
Posted by Leeann Brown in Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released results of an 11-year study showing, for the first time ever, the average concentrations of 268 “persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic” (PBT) chemicals in American lake fish.
Of the 268 chemicals, there were two the agency found in every...
BPA Wrecks Sex, Fouls Food — and Worse
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, Environmental Health Science, FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Pollution in People on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
When people ask whether modern synthetics are damaging their health and endangering future generations, Topic A is nearly always bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, an integral component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and one of the highest volume industrial chemicals in existence.
Now...
EPA Chief’s Call for Toxics Reform: Three Times in Two Months
Posted by Alex Formuzis in Featured Articles on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
The topic of human exposures to chemical contaminants and the need to overhaul the federal government’s approach to toxics regulation was again on the mind of the nation’s top environmental official in remarks she made last weekend in Philadelphia.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has now delivered...
Teflon Oven Liner? Not In My Kitchen
By Dave Andrews, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Environmental Working Group
Poking around the kitchen of our new house, Lena and I discovered a flat piece of synthetic something-or-other under the oven’s lower burner. Our landlord proudly explained that it was a Betty Crocker non-stick oven liner, a great...
FDA Under Pressure for BPA Food Safety Rules
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
As a key deadline approaches, scientists and environmental health advocates are ramping up pressure on the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rein in food contamination from bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen detected in the bodies of 93 percent of Americans tested.
During...
Be Smart About School Cleaning Supplies
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in Featured Articles on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments
What’s in Your Bucket?
– and in the One at Your Kid’s School?
That slightly pungent “clean” smell that you sometimes notice in a freshly scrubbed classroom, restroom — or your kitchen — may be telling you something a lot less appealing.
Environmental Working Group (EWG) studied...
New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation, Tumors
Posted by Elaine Shannon in Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on October 28, 2009 | 7 Comments
Two new international studies implicating cell phone in some forms of brain tumors are deepening scientists’ worries about the long-term consequences of human exposure to cell phone radiation, especially among children and heavy cell phone users.
An Australian-European research team reported in the...
Trick or treat? How about lead instead.
Posted by Alex Formuzis in Cosmetic chemicals, Featured Articles, Pollution in People on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
Laboratory tests commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) have found lead, a potent neurotoxin, in 100 percent of 10 popular children’s face paints. The amounts were low – but, as CSC points out, there’s no safe level of lead exposure, which is why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
Curbing the Erin Brockovich Chemical
Back in 1991, a young paralegal poking around in some real estate files noticed a peculiar concentration of cancer in tiny Hinkley, CA.
The rest was almost history.
Erin Brockovich’s find led to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, whose compressor station, California state investigators determined ,...
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