Environmental Health

February 4, 2013

In 1990, when I lived in Los Angeles, my 4-year old son and I were both poisoned by the aerial spraying of malathion. The state had sprayed vast residential areas in an attempt to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly—a devastating pest that threatened California’s multi-billion dollar agriculture...

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Ruth Berlin

Environmental Health Health Care

January 29, 2013

You did it! Procter & Gamble has just agreed to reformulate Tide and Tide Free & Gentle to drastically reduce the levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane! Learn more. In just one short year, you moved the biggest consumer product company on the planet to make this change. Together...

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Cassidy Randall

Environmental Health Food!

January 27, 2013

Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year. On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environmental assessment that found "no significant impact" from the controversial...

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Ocean Robbins

Environmental Health Health Care

January 18, 2013

President Obama faces a profound decision as he considers who will step into Lisa Jackson's shoes. Over the past decade, EPA has become a lightening rod for the heated partisan debate about the size and role of government. The agency has also come to serve as a rhetorical punching bag for those...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health

January 15, 2013

I’ve been on the couch for a week battling bronchitis ( Shout out to paid sick days! ). Requisites for voice-less, groggy couch life? Equal parts ginger tea and beauty blogs. Wicked winter sickness demands guilty pleasures, and beauty blogs are mine. Beauty writers and editors exist in a magical...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care

January 5, 2013

Holding signs that say "We want to be toxic free" outside Sen. Burr's Wilmington office. On January 3rd, I met with MomsRising members in Wilmington, NC for a “Parent Warrior Brigade” for toxic chemicals reform. We were joined by Jerry Ensminger , fellow “Parent Warrior” and former Marine drill...

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Felicia Burnett

Environmental Health Health Care

December 3, 2012

Women's Voices for the Earth's Non-Toxic Shopping Guide has everything you need to make responsible choices without compromising the fun and excitement of gift-giving. With this Guide, you can use your consumer power to tell and show companies that you demand safer products!

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Cassidy Randall

Environmental Health

November 30, 2012

It makes no sense. FDA's decision this week to allow continued use of the neurotoxic pesticide lindane in children's lice shampoos has me completely stumped. The pesticide's use in pet products were withdrawn long ago. Then agricultural uses wer e pulled, back in 2006. Yet FDA just re-blessed the...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health

November 29, 2012

Solar energy has treated 2012 pretty well so far. Solar energy helped Germany break a record by producing as much electricity as 20 nuclear stations, will energize Apple’s latest data center, and provided Hurricane Sandy victims relief when the superstorm left nearly 5 million in the dark. When the...

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Cassady Sharp

Environmental Health

November 29, 2012

Parents have been performing heroic feats since the dawn of time. Growing up, my mom worked the night shift as a medical technician but would still wake herself up for 3 hours in order to greet my sister and I coming home from school. She’d cook dinner for us and then help us with our homework...

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