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Legal victory in the fight to save lives from asbestos!

In a welcome holiday announcement, we learned this week of a legal victory in the fight against asbestos! After EPA’s 2018 denial of a petition filed by our allies at Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) to make sure EPA collects information on asbestos use and exposure was upheld, we joined ADAO and other public health groups in a legal challenge that was upheld this week.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Public Health Association, asbestos, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, Center for Environmental Health, Defend Our Health, Environmental Working Group, EPA

Shouldering My Body Burden

By Carolyn Fine Friedman With the recent resurgence of publicity around Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in September, I am reminded of my own journey to discover, accept, and increase public awareness of the frightening number and toxicity of chemicals in our environment and our bodies. When I received the results […]

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: biomonitoring, body burden, Carolyn Fine Friedman, cross-generational ubiquity of chemical contamination, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Environmental Working Group, EWG, How Dangerous Is Your Couch?, lead, mercury, methyl mercury, PBDEs, PFCs, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, toxins

Saying Children Should Not Be Used as Guinea Pigs for Testing Effects of Toxic Chemicals, Senator Frank Lautenberg Announces Plans to Introduce a Safer Chemicals Bill Soon

In a crowded Senate hearing room, the law governing toxic chemical production and use was explored and determined to be inadequate to protect families and children from health effects linked to toxic chemical exposure.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, BPA, CDC, charles mckay, chemical production, children's health, Environmental Working Group, EPA, Frank Lautenberg, GAO, hartford hospital, hazardous chemicals, henry falk, john stephenson, ken cook, linda birnbaum, mercury, molly jones gray, NIEHS, pregnancy, safer chemicals, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, stephen owens, toxic chemical production, toxic chemicals, toxics, washington toxics coalition

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