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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 09.24.2009 | 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 09.18.2009 | 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.
Anneli Rufus | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
No, really. It is. According to Peru's Environment Ministry, over 12 million cubic meters of raw sewage are dumped into Lake Titicaca every year.
Dave Burdick | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
Barack Obama: The first ______ president. Can we put the word "green" in that blank?
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A group representing the U.S. cement industry says a federal government plan for cutting emissions of mercury and other a...
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
Arriving suddenly -- as a gift whose time had come -- it offered folks something to unite around: the idea of an entire planet, our home, in peril.
AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green
It might sound like Jeremy Piven is telling a fish story. The actor known for playing uber-agent Ari on "Entourage" blamed mercury poisoning from eat...
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John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green