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01/07/10

What’s in your paint, detergent, art supplies, furniture, and textiles? You probably don’t know, since there’s typically no ingredients list on the label. But, even if you wanted to know – you don’t necessarily have the right to know. Even more disturbing, the government agency in charge of...

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Janelle Sorensen

01/07/10

This morning, I was looking glumly down at the extra 5 pounds on my scale thinking... Diet? Exercise? And then it came to me. No! This January, America's families need to throw our weight around and that extra 5 pounds is going to come in handy! Right now, each Congressional Representative is...

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Donna Norton

Environmental Health

01/06/10

Our colleagues at Breast Cancer Fund sent us this notice about an opportunity to volunteer in a study about the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). Check it out! *** Researchers at Vassar College, the Breast Cancer Fund and Silent Spring Institute are collaborating on a study to determine whether or not...

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Ariana Kelly

12/28/09

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Like peeling away the layers of an onion, the recession has a way of peeling away the protective layers we put up to buffer ourselves from the bumps and jolts of hard times. When our...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health

12/23/09

A few days ago an outrageous column was printed in the Wall Street Journal —it accuses “chemical crusaders” of “ruining Christmas” because we want to put safer regulations on toys. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is expected to vote on lifting the enforcement stay on testing of phthalates on...

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Janelle Sorensen

Health Care

12/23/09

Thanks for standing up for Sophie and all the other children in need of healthcare reform. Over the weekend, a number of last minute improvements on children's health coverage were made to the Senate health bill because of the amazing efforts of MomsRising members and other great advocates for...

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Donna Norton

Environmental Health

12/22/09

Last week, I went to the Reproductive Health Technology Project , Association of Reproductive Health Professionals , and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families congressional briefing on the “Dangers of Chemicals on Reproductive Health.” I was astounded by what I learned at the briefing, and also...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

12/22/09

The climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark is over. What happens, of course, will affect all of our families. But it will have profound effects for the poorest people around the globe, two-thirds of them are women and children. There is a world of difference in how environmental damage...

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Linda Tarr-Whelan

12/22/09

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org As Your (Wo)man in Washington , I focus on how the public policy work done in the nation's capital (or perhaps, more often, left undone) will affect your life wherever you are. From time to...

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Valerie Young

Health Care

12/21/09

Age discrimination in the form of age rating, the practice of allowing private insurers to charge people higher premiums solely based on age, is wrong. And Congress is buying the false argument from the insurance companies that without age rating, insurance will be too expensive for younger people...

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Natale Zimmer