Environmental Health

July 30, 2012

Three cheers for sanity on Capitol Hill! For the first time in 36 years, lawmakers voted last Wednesday to strengthen the national law governing toxic chemicals. If it keeps moving and becomes law, the bill will tighten the rules governing those 84,000+ substances that make their way into our homes...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health

July 25, 2012

by Margie Kelly, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World We know a lot about how toxic chemicals hurt kids. Babies are born with more than 200 chemicals in their bodies. Rates of childhood cancer keep rising, while other types of cancer are holding steady or declining. Every ecosystem,...

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Margie Kelly

Environmental Health

July 20, 2012

Hey, it’s summer! That means we can rip electronics out of our kids’ hands and tell them to “go out and play!” But tragically, many of us will need to think twice about booting them outdoors because of air pollution. Studies have shown that air pollution can stunt growing lungs , particularly in...

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Gloria Pan

Environmental Health

July 16, 2012

This post originally appeared on Sightline Daily . My daughter will turn three this year, and we just enrolled her in preschool! With all our childcare at home to date, we've been lucky to avoid lots of extra running around with the kid. So, no sooner had we signed little Audrey up for preschool...

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Anna Fahey

Environmental Health Food!

July 10, 2012

If you’re a meat-eater, it’s better for your health and the planet to buy antibiotic-free meat and poultry. That might be tough to do, given that 80 percent of the antibiotics in use are fed to animals raised for food to keep them growing faster and to prevent them from getting sick in crowded and...

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Margie Kelly

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

July 3, 2012

Fireworks. Barbeques. Antibiotics? When it comes to Fourth of July traditions, one of these things is not like the others. Unfortunately, antibiotics can crash your summer barbeque depending on the kind of meat you purchase. Antibiotics have become so rampant in meat that we're starting to see a...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Food!

July 2, 2012

Imagine for a moment if antibiotics didn’t work. Unimaginable, right? Unfortunately, it’s starting to happen--and it's even highlighted in today's Washington Post . According to t he Centers for Disease Contro l, approximately two million people acquire bacterial infections in U.S. hospitals each...

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Sarah Francis

Environmental Health

July 2, 2012

MomsRising today launched six-figure TV ad buys in Ohio and Pennsylvania to express gratitude for Senator Sherrod Brown’s and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey’s courageous votes to turn back a proposal to block EPA’s life-saving limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution. “Thanks to the...

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Gloria Pan

Health Care Childcare & Early Education Food! Environmental Health

June 27, 2012

Recently, MomsRising hosted a #kidshealth tweetchat with Dr. Mark Ryan (@richmonddoc), who answered your questions about everything from childhood asthma to breastfeeding to first dentist appointments, and more! Dr. Ryan is a family doctor in Richmond, VA and a member of the board of the National...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

June 27, 2012

Tomorrow, Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will testify in front of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for the first time. It won't be pretty. By the very title of the event , Strengthening the Scientific Backbone of the EPA: An Examination...

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Gloria Pan