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Western drilling claiming more victims?
Well, it’s finally happened. The out-of-control explosion of oil and gas drilling in the Mountain West has started to claim other victims besides the environment. Politicians who were early...
Envirohealth in Blogs: Christmas lists, Australia's smoking ban, and more
A little light reading to get you through your Wednesday. Here’s something useful: Treehugger alerts us that sensors for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) might be on the way. All Cristina at Moms...
7 ways to reduce your exposure to PBDE flame retardants
PBDEs are everywhere, and there's some evidence connecting them to brain and developmental problems in animals, and possibly even cancer. Exposure to flame retardant chemicals is ubiquitous, but there...
Toddlers' PBDE exposure (and some Queen for good measure)
I’m warning you now: read this post and you may find yourself humming a particular song for the rest of the day. Science News has an article this week about human exposure to flame retardants (PBDEs...
Triple Crisis Teach-In report
As Amanda said, I did go to amazing teach in, Confronting the Global Triple Crisis - Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction, held this weekend in DC. The teach in featured...
Envirohealth News: Rogue Algae!
Your environmental health news crib sheet. With increased industry has come increased nitrogen and phosphorus in Chinese waterways, and the result is rogue algae. Chemicals dumped in landfills near...
Officials refrain from dumping toxic sludge into Elliott Bay;<br>Mom not impressed
I was never rewarded for doing chores when I was a child. I was a part of the household, my mother told me, and she wasn’t going to applaud or pay me just because I did my part to help out. I think...
SMM: Greensumption and the Triple Crisis
There's a teach-in here in DC this weekend on the triple crisis of climate change, peak oil, and resource depletion. Jovana is planning on attending, so hopefully we'll get to hear all about it on...
Three ways Congress can give the CPSC teeth
Look up “toothless tiger†in the dictionary, and you’ll see a picture of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Or at least that’s the impression given by the media and many of those...
Envirohealth News: Cancer risk from cell phones?
PBDE uptake patterns appear to be changing. In a study of families in Spain, the presence of specific chemicals mirrored that usually seen in electronics employees. There may be a relationship between...
Shifting sex ratio may be caused by PCBs, but how?
More girls than boys are being born in certain Inuit villages in the Arctic, and scientists say man-made chemicals are to blame. Women were tested for the level of PCBs (pervasive hormone mimicking...
South L.A. fast food ban is a message to Washington
In South L.A., fast food is king. It's cheap and abundant, with 20 eateries inside of a quarter-mile stretch, and other options are few and far between. The area's residents live off the stuff, and as...
EnviroHealth in blogs: Green tea, nurdles, and demystifying the Farm Bill
A little light reading to get you through your Wednesday. In response to a reader comment, Marc at Ethicurean boils the Food and Farm Bill down to a handful of easy to understand talking points. Now...
September 11th public health crisis gaining media attention
In the minutes following the attacks on the World Trade Center, the paramedics, firefighters and others who risked their lives to save others weren’t thinking about the chemical content of the dust...
9/10/07: EnviroHealth News
Asthma goes back to school. In LA, 63,000 students battle breathing problems caused by air pollution and moldy buildings. Can they carry their inhalers at school? Nobody seems sure. FEMA trailer...
Canadian politicians find there’s no escaping BPA
You don’t need me to tell you that poor folks are more likely to find themselves dealing with illnesses induced by environmental toxins (although clearly if you give me half a chance I will). Most...
SMM: City Slickers
So EWG designed a little gadget, ages ago, that allows users to find out who's getting farm subsidies (and how much, and where). We call it the Farm Subsidy Database (creative, I know). The database...
Mossville's dioxin-free dreams
I wonder what health insurance costs are like in Mossville, Louisiana? Sky high, I imagine. Residents of that community have three times as much dioxin in their bodies as the average U.S. population...
How cutting out certain food additives could curb ADHD (and cancer too)
A UK study published today in the Lancet reveals that certain food additives, including sodium benzoate and some colorings, likely play a role in the increasingly frequent diagnosis of ADHD in...
EPA's diacetyl secret
It's no secret that diacetyl, the chemical that gives butter-flavored microwave popcorn it's buttery-ness, has caused serious and sometimes fatal lung disease in workers in flavoring and popcorn...