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Consumer Group: Ban Tuna From School Lunches

Posted 09.21.2012 | Home
Read More: Nutritional Guidelines, Usda School Lunches, Healthy School Lunches, Learning Disabilities, School Lunches, Epa, Fda, Usda Guidelines, Steve King, Children With Learning Disabilities, Food and Drug Association, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USDA School Lunch Guidelines, Nutritional Guidelines for School Lunches, Mercury, Tim Huelskamp, National Fisheries Institute, Tuna, Mercury in Tuna, Mercury Policy Project, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Methylmercury, Seafood, Video, Home News

The Mercury Policy Project of Montpelier, Vt., is pushing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to scrap tuna from school lunch menus after a test of 59 ...

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The Briny Bait & Switch That Could Turn You Off Fish

Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Marion Nestle, Coal, Fda, Methylmercury, Seafood, Fish, Moms Clean Air Force, Home News
Kerry Trueman

Figuring out which fish to eat these days is a "mo'brainer;" you need a pocket guide or a smartphone app just to help you remember which species are overharvested or contaminated. But now the truly savvy seafood shopper evidently needs a DNA test kit, too.

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Sierra Club Took My Hair and All I Got Was a Beyond Coal Button

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.15.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Governor Jerry Brown, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Mercury, Ladwp, Beyond Coal Campaign, Neurotoxin, Lisa Jackson, Mercury Poisoning, Sierra Club, The Cove, Clean Air Act, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Methylmercury, University of Georgia, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

I just had a lock of my hair chopped off to benefit science and the planet. I was joined by other moms, children and babies in more than 25 cities ac...

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Brain Drain: Could Environmental Chemicals Cause Autism?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lead, Bpas, Brominated Flame Retardants, Fetal Brain Development, Autism, Pcbs, Environmental Hazards, Asd, Phthalates, Methylmercury, Fetal Health, Healthy Living News
Wendy Gordon

It never occurred to me to worry about autism when I was pregnant in the '80s, but today it seems that few expectant parents haven't considered the possibility that autism might affect their child.

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