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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...
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...
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...
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 ,...
Beginning of the (long overdue) end for federal toxics program?
Posted by Alex Formuzis in EPA on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
What happened this week in San Francisco was nothing less than historic.
Lisa Jackson, EPA’s chief and the president’s point-person on environmental policy, began something that should have happened 33 years ago: drive a stake into the heart of the horrendous federal chemicals regulatory program...
Cell phone radiation rules so last century
Posted by Lisa Frack, EWG in Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Cell phones used to be luxuries, like 8-track car stereos. Now they’re everyday essentials, like toothbrushes.
Especially for kids. An estimated 71 percent of American tweens and teens own cell phones, and more than half use the device daily, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Is...
Sacramento says: Let them eat BPA
Last week I realized (again) how hard it is for citizens to protect their children when corporate interests are at stake. It’s a maddeningly familiar equation:
Threat to children +
Overwhelming constituent support +
Solid science +
Well-financed industry opposition with fear tactics =
=...
Groundhog Day at FDA
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
Remember the 1993 film Groundhog Day? Bill Murray’s TV weatherman found himself trapped in a time warp in a turgid little town and despaired, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”
That locked-in-place feeling...
EPA may crack down on rocket fuel in drinking water
Posted by Elaine Shannon in EPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
Fulfilling a confirmation pledge, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa P. Jackson is revisiting the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate rocket fuel pollution in the nation’s drinking water.
Jackson’s move, announced Wednesday, is being welcomed by the environmental community and...
Eco-chic? Or cheap chic?
Posted by Elaine Shannon in Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Pollution in People on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
Channel Cameron Diaz, Vogue’s “Queen of Green?” Scour Martha Stewart for money-saving wedding tips?
Tough call, and now you don’t have to make it.
Not, at least, when you’re picking up a bottle of water for the drink-holder of your Prius/Mini/Trek Madone.
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