Smart discussion about toxics policy reform

EPA Chief’s Call for Toxics Reform: Three Times in Two Months
Posted by Alex Formuzis in Featured Articles on 11 11th, 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...
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EWG Conference Finds Broad Consensus on Toxic Chemicals Reform
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in Featured Articles on 10 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments
More than 150 representatives of industry, government, academia and the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they...
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Chemicals and the World’s Expanding Waistline
Posted by Nena Baker in Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles on 08 20th, 2009 | No Comments
A human body, when taking in more calories than it expends, makes fat faster than you can say couch potato. But a growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise. Scientists...
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Why I hope the EWG is wrong
Posted by Lynn Miller in Legislation on 08 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
No one makes a habit of displaying the inside of their medicine cabinet. But I’m doing it to make a point. The other night I took my skeptical husband to watch the filming of what’s being billed as “ ‘Inconvenient Truth’ for environmental health.” The Environmental Working Group’s  President, ...
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Does BPA Cause Infertility?
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Know Your Toxins on 06 26th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Yale researchers may have solved a fundamental medical mystery: how bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous plastics component, changes genetic chemistry and impairs fertility. The Yale team’s findings, previewed earlier this month to the Endocrine Society, a 14,000-member scientific and medical professional...
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