Just because it's on the menu at a famous chef's restaurant does not mean it's okay to eat.
AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 12.28.2009 | Denver
SKULL VALLEY, Utah — During a warm spell this fall, vandals hauled 18 decrepit televisions and computers down a narrow gravel road in Utah's pic...
chicagotribune.com | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 12.28.2009 | Chicago
Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants is increasing in Illinois even as it declines nationwide, a troubling trend for the state because emiss...
Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
Corporations need to take economic and social responsibility for their business practices. Environmental pollution is a major health threat with enormous economic consequences.
John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?
John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
A new EPA study found 268 bio-accumulative and toxic chemicals--notably mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins and furans--in fish from a national sampling of 500 lakes and reservoirs.
Peter Christian Hall | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
By some views, it's just as possible that sunscreen -- and sun avoidance -- is causing far more harm than mercury ever did.
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
How can we cut health care costs, save lives and improve our kids' chances to do well in school? Reduce our mercury emissions.
cnn.com | Denise Mann | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
Salmon, tuna, and other fish are loaded with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, so they must be good for you, right? Not so fast--some types of fish h...
David Kirby | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
For the Obama Administration and the mainstream media to accept that autism levels have always been this high is, frankly, wishful thinking and unsettlingly wrongheaded.
treehugger.com | April Streeter | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
I had been planning to review my personal care products after a search for a 'safe' hair dye for a pregnant friend led me eventually to the EWG site. ...
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, ...
Javier Sierra | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Big Coal and Big Oil are determined to cover our ears so we can't hear about the overwhelming advantages of the climate and energy bill, especially for us Latinos.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California burning; Killing wolves; Recycling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... PLUS: A Fracture in the Clean Coal Coalit...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — No fish can escape mercury pollution. That's the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday...
AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
From The AP: WASHINGTON -- A federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday found the toxic substance in every fish tested at nearly 300...
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
The move toward greater energy efficiency Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs is more complex than consumers might realize because all fluorescent bulbs contain mercury, a known neurotoxin.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
Like it or not, vaccines are likely the largest source of one-time exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in early infant development.
David Kirby | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
A pair of federally funded studies on autism rates is about to make news -- big news -- and it isn't good: It would appear that somewhere around one percent of all US children currently have an autism spectrum disorder.
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
The recent FDA ruling that mercury used in dental amalgam fillings is not at a level high enough to cause harm in patients was the next volley in what is an ongoing discussion about the safety of mercury.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — As hundreds of thousands of clunkers head to the scrap yard, General Motors has dropped out of a partnership that collects toxic pa...
Dan Persons | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment
In Taiji, Japan, dolphins are herded into an isolated cove. The best get sold to sea parks and aquariums, the rest are killed for their meat. The Cove exposes the atrocity to the world.
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The FDA seems to have never heard of the precautionary principle and, in service to the interests of a few chemical companies like Monsanto, put the entire eating public at risk.
Andrew Knowlton | Posted 01.06.2010 | Green