For the first time in American history, the President and his EPA have committed to protecting our families from harmful mercury pollution from power plants.
Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively shouting: I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
Last week, I joined officials from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Health and Human Services to announce the results of the largest annual survey on youth drug use in America.
Since September 11 and anthrax, we've released the "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism" in partnership with...
Last month, when Congress declared pizza a vegetable, it was hard to believe things could get much worse. But never underestimate politicians' ability to put corporate interests ahead of children's health.
The drug war is forty years old this year. It's time to step back and ask ourselves what's the best way to solve the problem we're trying to solve -- how to reduce drug abuse and addiction -- and use the best available evidence to guide us.
Several major announcements have been made in recent weeks about the expansion of vaccine access to the world's poor.
After a year of unprecedented destruction attributed to weather extremes, federal officials and environmental advocates are focusing increased attenti...
RICHMOND, Va. -- States have cut funding for tobacco prevention programs 12 percent this year, to the lowest level since 1999, according to a new repo...
Our talk covered topics from the genesis of his career as the "Father of Environmental Justice," to the role that women and mothers have played in the struggle for the health of the planet.
Inside classrooms, clinics and Congress, Dr. Paul Epstein fervently defended the health of both humans and the environment. He understood the powerful...
GOP members of the House and Senate have proposed a flurry of bills that would roll-back, and in some cases effectively repeal, some of the nation's most important environmental, health and safety laws.
The economic slowdown has put countless people out of work and eliminated millions of dollars in homeowner wealth. States and cities haven't been immu...
More and more American businesses are taking notice of the health of their employees because the calculus shows that preventing disease and promoting health reaps economic rewards.
Like a growing number of Americans, Jonathan Patz rides his bike to work. He even drags a wheeled blue bin behind his bike for trips to the grocery st...
Members of the House of Representatives have been casting a string of votes of staggering recklessness and cupidity. These are by far the worst environmental votes cast in any Congress in American history.
Vineet Singal is living proof that you don't need even two decades under your belt to get busy taking on the world.
Given the tremendous personal, economic and societal loss that occurs as a consequence of preventable blindness, it is unacceptable that more is not being done.
I predict the day will come when commercial interests will be similarly barred from selling their wares on school property and when students will be required to refrain from bringing in junk food.
Last week, DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson revealed some startling statistics about our youngest citizens. We learned that 10% of current eighth graders have attempted suicide.
Delivering babies in the dark, breathing toxic smoke in the kitchen and walking miles to fetch water -- not to mention boiling every drop before its p...
It's a well known fact that most farm subsidies go to crops, like feed corn, that aren't exactly healthy. They're crops that are easy to grown en mass...
I can't help but wonder how many millions of Americans are questioning the safety of this valuable public health vaccine today based on no proof and no science.
If you want a model for how the world can solve its most pressing problems, it is the posse. As governance systems go, the Wild West approach of rounding up a few available hands and driving the bad guy out of town is certainly messy, but it could be highly effective.
Hollywood producer Steven Soderbergh in his latest film Contagion has done what few big-budget Hollywood filmmakers do. He has respected his viewers' intelligence.Contagion not only includes marquee stars, but also respects science.
