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Blog Action Day tip: Know your source
Today is Blog Action Day, an event created to draw the attention of the blogosphere as a whole to one particular issue. Today, bloggers around the world will turn their attention to this year’s...
DDT is not healthy for children and other living things
Imagine a group of gregarious nine and ten year old girls in the early 1960s, laughing and running through the streets of their neighborhood on a summer evening, following along behind a big truck --...
Envirohealth in Blogs: Fishy fishy. . .
What with the recent confusion over safe fish consumption, you may be in the mood for some clean fish. Head on over to Blogfish for a hot tip on where to find it. It turns out that the streets are...
Toxic remains of mining operation kill geese, cancer cells
You really can't beat this opening sentence, so I'm not even going to try: BUTTE, Mont. — Death sits on the east side of this city, a 40-billion-gallon pit filled with corrosive water the color of a...
Exposure of Canadians to toxic killers
Canadians face up to 25,000 premature deaths annually and that costs the Canadian government more than $9 billion. These, among other statistics, were revealed in a new study published last week. This...
Envirohealth News: Finally, an asbestos ban
We've known the about the negative health impacts of asbestos since the 1920's, and now the Senate has finally acted to ban the stuff from import. Our thanks and congratulations go to Senator Murray...
SMM: A food and farm bill for school lunches
KQED public radio in Northern California played a story on Thursday about the farm bill and how it effects the lunch menu in public schools: We've all heard the latest health advice: avoid transfats...
This Enviroblog post has not been funded by the seafood industry
So, the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies coalition has issued a recommendation that women who are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning on becoming pregnant should eat at at least 12 ounces of fish per...
Nail biters in Taiwan beware
Well, biting your nails is never a good habit to pick up, but now it could be down right dangerous for a certain segment of the population in China Taiwan -- specifically those who use nail polish. A...
Envirohealth in Blogs: Climate change whatchamacallits, crop insurance, DDT and more
A little light reading for your Wednesday. The FDA has dropped the ball, and Angry Toxicologist is . . . well, angry! It's easy to see why. Vital Daily Juice at Green Options gives us a friendly...
17 Principles of Environmental Justice
After writing this morning's post on the global environmental justice movement, I did a little digging and turned up the Principles of Environmental Justice. Drafted and adopted in 1991 at the...
Correction
In a May 16 blog post about the possibility of Dennis Paustenbach being appointed to a federal asbestos committee, we said that Paustenbach's firm ChemRisk "committed scientific fraud on behalf of a...
Defining the global environmental justice movement
I've been talking a lot about environmental justice lately, and I've had a couple of people question exactly what I meant. Not having an official definition at hand, I've had to cobble together...
The unknown toothpaste hero
Until today’s article in New York Times, the name Eduardo Arias meant nothing to me. However, Eduardo is responsible for worldwide awareness of the presence of diethylene glycol in toothpaste. Mr...
A Disaster Waiting to Happen
The concentrated, predictable, repetitive nature of agricultural disaster aid among a few states with perennially poor growing conditions raises the question of whether the time has come for states to...
SMM: Return of the Sign-O-Matic
About a year ago, McDonald's thought it would be a good idea to put miniature Hummers in children's Happy Meals. About a year ago, EWG decided, "Wow, that's actually a really lousy idea." And so began...
Rotten eggs in Versailles, PA
What would you rather have lurking underneath your hometown: highly explosive methane, or highly toxic hydrogen sulfide? Tough decision. How about both? In Versailles, PA, that's exactly the situation...
New Government Fish Tests Raise Mercury Concerns
EWG's analysis of mercury data obtained from FDA under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that mercury contamination of fish is more serious than federal scientists previously assumed.
Envirohealth News: Extra frog legs, knowing nanotech and more
New EPA regulations will "get the lead out" of drinking water. One more reason to ditch the bottle. More toy recalls for lead paint. Is anyone surprised? In LA, schools are being built by freeways...