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Environmental Risks

We Won't Identify Breast Cancer Risks from Chemicals Until We Test for Them

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Endrocrine Disruptors, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Environmental Risks, Breast Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness, Toxins, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Here we are at the end of October, with another Breast Cancer Awareness month coming to a close. As a breast cancer survivor, I welcome attention bein...

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What is the Value of a Clean Future for the Gulf?

Erik Rothenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Ursulaproject, Standards, Gulf Oil Spill, Social Risks, Healthy Gulf, Clean Energy, Environmental Risks, Externalities, True-Cost, Economic Risks, Economic Costs, Environmental Costs, True Cost, Social Costs, Environmental Clean-Up, Green News
Erik Rothenberg

According to estimates by the Flow Rate Technical Group, the team advising the government on the giant leak in the Gulf of Mexico, some 45-130 million...

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Five Lessons from the BP Oil Disaster

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Oil Addiction, Tony Hayward, Reputation, BP Refinery Explosion, Renewable Energy, Warren Buffett, Bpa, 1982 Tylenol Deaths, BP Oil Spill, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Environmental Risks, Gulf Oil Spill, Oilpocalypse, Green News
Andrew Winston

It's high time to start sifting through the wreckage for some learning so we can avoid similar catastrophes. But why do we need to wait for each fresh disaster to relearn the lessons we already know?

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