When people ask whether modern synthetics are damaging their health and endangering future generations, Topic A is nearly always bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, an integral component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and one of the highest volume industrial chemicals in existence.

Now a ground-breaking study released in...

The debate about controversial plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, is heating up, with warring camps hurling data like flaming darts. Sometime later this month, the federal Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce its plans for evaluating and possibly restricting contamination of BPA in infant formula...

If you feel naked without your cell phone, and not in a good way, I'm right there with you. Me and my IPhone and my global phone, plus my old dead phone and crackberry that ought to go to recycling, and my lost phone that's probably hiding under a radiator,...

SIGG Switzerland AG's roster of stars who tote and tout its aluminum-and-synthetic water bottles reads like a A-list party at Cannes.

Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson, Zac Effron , Lucy Liu, Tobey Maguire, Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum, Jessica Alba -- and more.

How long will the...

Last week, Steve Wasik, chief executive officer of SIGG Switzerland, made an astonishing admission: the company's aluminum water bottles manufactured before August 2008 had been made with epoxy resin that contains bisphenol A (BPA).

"The primary reason that I am writing this letter today is because I believe that...

Fulfilling a confirmation pledge, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa P. Jackson is revisiting the Bush administration's refusal to regulate rocket fuel pollution in the nation's drinking water.

Jackson's move, announced Wednesday, is being welcomed by the environmental community and children's health advocates. Perchlorate, a major component of rocket...

Don't underestimate the power of a consumer revolt.

No hearings. No votes. No PAC money. No lawyers. (Yes!) No lobbying. Advertising -- Facebook and Twitter, virtual and viral. And free.

When it comes to cost, you can't beat zero.

Effective? Hey, big companies can stand to lose political allies....

A landmark study by Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) has found that children exposed in the womb to urban air pollutants score significantly lower on intelligence tests than children of mothers who breathed cleaner air during their pregnancies.

The study, published July 20 in the...

Channel Cameron Diaz, Vogue's "Queen of Green?" Scour Martha Stewart for money-saving wedding tips?

Tough call, and now you don't have to make it.

Not, at least, when you're picking up a bottle of water for the drink-holder of your...

Well, do you?

Clint Eastwood/Harry Callahan's pithy question rings in my head, every time I read the chemical lobby's defense of bisphenol A(BPA), a high-volume industrial plastics chemical.

Many experiments have shown that BPA, a synthetic estrogen as well as a plastics hardener, disrupts the endocrine system and...

Yale researchers may have solved a fundamental medical mystery: how bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous plastics component, changes genetic chemistry and impairs fertility.

The Yale team's findings, previewed earlier this month to the Endocrine Society, a 14,000-member scientific and medical professional organization devoted to hormone system research and treatment, have...

It's 1960. Embattled tobacco industry reps, accused by the Federal Trade Commission and health groups of hawking products that kill people, retreat to a sumptuous hideaway and devise a campaign to salvage cigarettes by, among other things, targeting women.

Soon after the confab at Miami's luxe hotel Fontainbleau,...