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Widespread Obesity: Are Certain Chemicals Also a Big Contributor? (videos)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 04.29.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Pesticides, Obesogens, Video, Environmental Health Work Group, Fast Food, Bpa, Chemicals, Obesity, Dr. Susan Katz, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Overweight, Healthy Living News
Rebecca Gerendasy

In part 1 of this interview, Dr. Susan Katz, a retired pediatrician, biochemist, and present Chair of the Environmental Health Work Group of the Orego...

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Personal Responsibility and the Fight for Clean Air

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 09.26.2011 | Impact
Read More: Dr. Lynn Ringenberg, Clean Air, Rep. Fred Upton, Aep, Debt Ceiling, Frank Capra, Impact, Pollution, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, Social Activism, Epa, DANIEL J. WEISS, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, American Electric Power, Moms Clean Air Force, Rupert Murdoch, Environment, Mercury, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Activism, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

Instead of people just shaking their heads and sighing, "Well, what can I do?"... The answer is simple. Take a proactive step. The window of opportunity to send a comment of support to the E.P.A. is drawing to a close. August 4th to be exact.

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Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011 | Home
Read More: Aplastic Anemia, Bone Marrow Transplant, Hypoxia, Fukushima, Health Risks, Tokyo Electric Power, Nuclear Power, Fukushima-Dai-Ichi-Plant, Decomissioning, Nagasaki, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Immune System, Radiation, Chromosomes, Anemia, Leukemia, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Hiroshima, Spent Fuel Rods, Nuclear Proliferation, Joel Rauch M.D., Health Care, Three Mile Island, Home News
Alexia Parks

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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Time to Clean Up

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Latinos, American Lung Association, Pilsen, Javier Sierra, Green, Clean Energy, Hispanics, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Coal, National Academy of Sciences, Hispanics and the Environment, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Latinos and the Environment, Health, Chicago, Oil, Environment, Perro, Green News
Javier Sierra

Big Coal has redefined the word "cheap" as keeping the profits and passing your true costs onto society. But those days are numbered.

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Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Cuban Missile Crisis, Hiroshima, Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Terrorism, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nuclear Accidents, Books News
Lawrence Wittner

Apocalypse Never , by Tad Daley, is a new book that deserves wide circulation, for it is a spirited, ringing call for nuclear weapons abolition.

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Are You Resilient? If So, Encourage Psychological and Social Resilience Wherever You Can

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: United Nations Climate Change, Resilience, Africa, Copenhagen, Sustainability, Psychology, Canada, United States, Cop 15, Mike Littrell, Sociology, Dr. Eric Rasmussen, Community, Resilient People + Climate Change, Hollyhock Retreat Centre, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Victoria Hykes Steere, Glenn Albrecht. Carl Hild, Rick Ingrasci, Leif Utne, Instedd, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

What kind of person would you need to become, what kind of community would you need to be a part of, and what kind of process would it take to be able to experience a twenty-first century of increasing unpredictability and loss?

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California Battles to Ban BPA from Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups and Infant Formula

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fran Pavley, Sippy Cups, Senate Bill 797, Harvey Karp, Nih, Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Bpa, Cdc, Environmental Working Group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Hormones, California Nurses Association, American Chemistry Council, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

You may not be familiar with the chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, but there is an excellent chance that BPA is very familiar with you.

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