Environmental chemicals are wreaking havoc to last a lifetime February 16, 2015/ensia.com  — The numbers are startling. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.8 million more children in the U.S. were diagnosed with developmental disabilities between 2006 and 2008 than a decade earlier. During this time, the prevalence of autism […]

The Protecting American Families from Toxic Chemicals Act would allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify and phase out PBTs from commerce within the next five years.

The well-respected research team at Duke University has created a new program that lets you test, for the first time, products in your home for toxic flame retardants.

Cruising the halls of Congress can be fun when you’re side by side with leading physicians and scientists. I think I started to get a little bit smarter last week when I spent time on the hill with our coalition partner experts… Osmosis works that way right? We met with sixteen U.S. Senate offices in […]

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 […]