Environmental Health

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health

February 27, 2013

By now you've heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. Sequestration means across-the-board spending cuts, and this sequester was written into law in August 2011 as a kind of terrible incentive for lawmakers...

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Mattea Kramer

Environmental Health Family Economic Security

February 27, 2013

Sequestration is both an ugly word and hard to explain. As a budget wonk, I like to use this metaphor: It’s as if the American people are being squeezed into the back of a dilapidated Chevy pick-up. Careening down a dirt road, we’re headed for a brick wall. Try as we might to wake up from this...

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Jo Comerford

Environmental Health Health Care

February 22, 2013

Something's rotten in Denmark. Well, in DC actually. That's where the decision's been made — again and again and again — to keep a nasty insecticide called chlorpyrifos on the market. The result? A generation of kids is sicker and less smart. I'm truly not being melodramatic, though I admit the...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health

February 20, 2013

On February 1 4, Lisa P. Jackson stepped down from her post as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She will go down in history as the first African-American leader of the Environmental Protection Agency, but we will also remember her as a mom. With her own experience of...

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Gloria Pan

Environmental Health Health Care

February 20, 2013

A new report from Women's Voices for the Earth, Secret Scents: How Hidden Fragrance Allergens Harm Public Health , finds that millions of people are affected by skin allergies caused by chemicals in fragrance. In fact, allergic reactions to fragrance chemicals are common, and have increased...

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Cassidy Randall

Environmental Health Health Care

February 14, 2013

The Smart on Pesticides Maryland coalition recently commissioned a poll to learn what Maryland voters’ attitudes towards pesticides are. Guess what? It found that a whopping eight out of 10 voters said they are concerned about the risk of pesticides to their families’ health. (I want to meet the two out of 10 who are not concerned!) When informed about the links to chronic illnesses and environmental problems, that number rose to 92 percent.

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Ruth Berlin

Environmental Health Food!

February 14, 2013

Corporate farms are ratcheting up their efforts to keep their not-so-savory, and frequently illegal, business practices out of sight. Armed with a series of bills that aim to criminalize undercover investigations and whistleblowing, the industry is going state-by-state in an effort to stop animal...

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Amanda Hitt

Environmental Health

February 14, 2013

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. This year why not show your love the Cool Foods way? 1. CHOCOLATES February 14th is the day that gives you license to indulge in high quality chocolate! And with the current renaissance of independent choco latiers specializing in small batches and...

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Diana Donlon

Environmental Health Health Care

February 13, 2013

Photo Credit: Jacqueline Argote – Zach Behar Films WATCH THE VIDEO Uh oh…. The nonprofit corporate watchdog As You Sow just found nanoparticles in the Dunkin Donuts they tested! How they got in there and why they're in there is not well understood. But what is known is that the tiny titanium...

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Andy Behar

Environmental Health

February 8, 2013

Spread the news! The largest climate rally EVER in the U.S. is taking place on Sunday, February 17th in Washington, DC. Thousands of people are mobilizing for the rally, which is organized by 350.org, the Sierra Club, and the Hip Hop Caucus; the Center for Food Safety’s Cool Foods Campaign is one...

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Diana Donlon