WASHINGTON — Here's rare good news about an environmental crisis: We dodged disaster with the ozone layer. A NASA study about ozone-munching che...
treehugger.com | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
In a matter a few years at most, babies living in the USA will likely be off the BPA-laced formula. Washington Post documents two important developmen...
MSNBC | Posted 04.13.2009 | Green
Cleaning products are some of the things that we all use where we're used to willingly allowing tons of chemicals we can't pronounce into our own home...
AP | RITA BEAMISH | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
The federal agency charged with protecting the public near toxic pollution sites often obscures or overlooks potential health hazards, uses inadequate...
Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.17.2009 | Green
Here's a reality check... the average consumer can use more than two dozen personal care products containing hundreds of chemical ingredients each day.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
While your municipal government does a good job of handling your trash, the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect Americans from hazardous waste. Coal ash fits the bill.
Nena Baker | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
A group called HealthyToys.org tested 1500 toys this year and found 20 percent of them contained lead, with children's jewelry leading the most contaminated category.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
From Seventh Generation's discussion on "Children and Chemicals," featuring Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group, pediatrician Dr. Alan ...
David Kirby | Posted 12.04.2008 | Living
A new study makes one thing fairly clear to me: Autism is not a purely genetic disorder -- our changing, endangered, dirty environment is playing a role.
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
Some people think that the body is adequately equipped for detoxification, but if it were, we wouldn't have words like carcinogen, teratogens, reproductive toxicants, and endocrine disruptors.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
Besides a complete overhaul, a few prosecutions might be just the medicine the FDA needs.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green
There was a time when the FDA was considered the gold standard throughout the world in maintaining drug and food safety. Today, however, the agency's image is tarnished almost beyond repair.
Dan Agin | Posted 09.18.2008 | Chicago
Children living anywhere in the suburbs in a house built before 1960 are at high risk for high-dose lead exposure. An old house in Highland Park is as dangerous as an old house in Harvey. It makes no difference that the old house has been repainted with unleaded paint.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
I had been raised to support the system, to believe in it, and certainly to never speak out. Activism was something that "radicals" did, not conservative soccer moms. But everywhere I turned, there were sick children.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green