Persistence is a great trait if you're job hunting, learning to play the piano or potty training your child. But when it comes to toxic chemicals, persistence is a characteristic that spells trouble for people, animals and the environment.

Congress, as it sets about updating and reforming the

After I finished my talk about the hazards of bisphenol A at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon last week, I immediately reached beneath the podium and took a swig from my reusable Sigg water bottle.

The polite applause subsided, and one of the first to ask...

A human body, when taking in more calories than it expends, makes fat faster than you can say couch potato.

But a growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and...

No one is more pleased to see the hazards of bisphenol A in the spotlight than Mike Potter, father of six, grandfather of four, and founder and president of Eden Foods. His company began using BPA-free cans in 1999, after two years of frustrating negotiations with his can...

The mass spectrometers needed to measure traces of chemicals and their byproducts in human samples of blood and urine are big beige machines that, to the untrained eye, look like something you might find at your neighborhood photocopy store.

Commanded by researchers and technicians in clean suits seated at computer...

The leaked minutes from industry's bisphenol A strategy session in Washington D.C. last week tell a sad and scary tale of desperation.

Never mind that the estrogen-mimicking chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is on the ropes in Congress, in state legislatures and in the consciousness of worried consumers because...

Just because Congress banned a group of hormone-disrupting chemicals from children's toys doesn't mean Santa's helpers can rest easy this holiday season.

The advocacy group U.S. PIRG warns in its 23rd annual "Trouble in Toyland" report that playthings made from the most toxic forms of gender-bending...

In the weeks since Gov. Sarah Palin pushed through that vice-presidential nominee door crack, I have not found a single issue over which she and I might agree. I am a pro-choice, anti-war, wealth-spreading liberal with some very good friends who happen to have chosen the straight lifestyle. I favor...