Does BPA interfere with breast cancer treatment?
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Environment:
Molecular history of the HIV whirlwind
The pre-history of the AIDS pandemic.Posted on October 2, 2008 7:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Adjustable rate mortgages and West Nile Virus infection
How a mortgage crisis caused infection.Posted on September 30, 2008 7:39 AM • 4 Comments •
Oil on troubled waters
Coastal drilling. What could happen?Posted on August 23, 2008 7:02 AM • 10 Comments •
Twenty-second anniversary of an environmental catastrophe
Death by CO2. Quickly.Posted on August 22, 2008 7:45 AM • 8 Comments •
Cheney's energy industry mole to fashion climate change policy?
Trashing the place.Posted on August 20, 2008 7:19 AM • 4 Comments •
Bush games, Bush Rules
Bushies. An invasive species.Posted on August 13, 2008 7:00 AM • 21 Comments •
Primer on greenhouse gases, III.
The payoff. What makes a greenhouse gas a greenhouse gas.Posted on June 20, 2008 7:22 AM • 21 Comments •
Primer on greenhouse gases, II.
How electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter.Posted on June 19, 2008 7:14 AM • 5 Comments •
Primer on greenhouse gases, I.
Basics of electromagnetic radiation and greenhouse gases.Posted on June 18, 2008 7:51 AM • 9 Comments •
The main point of "Why the Right Wing attacks science"
It's not what, but who.Posted on June 16, 2008 7:09 AM • 42 Comments •
Why the Right Wing attacks science
How and and what for.Posted on June 13, 2008 8:08 AM • 79 Comments •
Shutting down the information spigot at EPA
Opening the back door of an essential chemical hazards database to industry manipulation.Posted on May 23, 2008 12:02 PM • 2 Comments •
Are there big problems with the very small?
Is nanotechnology hazardous to health and the environment?Posted on May 22, 2008 11:43 AM • 21 Comments •
California bound (and tied)
The Bush administration and its poodles.Posted on May 21, 2008 9:29 AM • 43 Comments •
The Clinton pander machine
The Clinton gas tax holiday pander.Posted on May 4, 2008 3:56 PM • 12 Comments •
Raw water cocktail on the rocks (and in the soil)
New paper surveying what's in our sources of drinking water. Do you want to know?Posted on April 30, 2008 7:47 AM • 9 Comments •
EPA gets the doubt of the benefits
Risk benefit trade-offs without consistently evaluating benefit.Posted on April 26, 2008 7:29 AM • 0 Comments •
Better than roadkill
More meat in a vat musings.Posted on April 22, 2008 3:46 PM • 29 Comments •
Tangled web, tangled bank and mercury poisoning
Mercury crawls out of the river into birds.Posted on April 21, 2008 4:39 PM • 6 Comments •
It's in the air
The composition of the air we breathe. Not completely straightforward.Posted on April 19, 2008 7:37 AM • 10 Comments •
Giving away water in a drought
Florida to Nestle: have a drink. On us.Posted on April 10, 2008 4:31 PM • 6 Comments •
How deep the ocean? How high the sky?
Most of the surface of the earth is covered with water. Some of it is pretty deep (at least by human standards). Above us is the atmosphere. It goes up. Way, way up. So if we were to make a...Posted on March 12, 2008 4:32 PM • 9 Comments •
The CDC Great Lakes report fiasco
What a tangled web we weave . . .Posted on March 6, 2008 4:57 PM • 22 Comments •
Bush EPA high jinks again. Sigh.
Where there's smoke there's the Bush administration.Posted on March 1, 2008 7:37 AM • 9 Comments •
Life's a (contaminated) beach
Getting your shit together at the seaside.Posted on February 26, 2008 7:05 AM • 4 Comments •
The logging industry and the kindness of strangers
Another Bush giveaway to his friends. Will anything be left in a year?Posted on January 30, 2008 4:12 PM • 17 Comments •
Wingspread statement on the Precautionary Priniciple: tenth anniversary
Commemorating an historic event in the American environmental movement.Posted on January 23, 2008 5:20 PM • 12 Comments •
EPA takes the Fifth
Being an EPA Executive has its Privileges.Posted on January 22, 2008 3:37 PM • 5 Comments •
Miniature GC-MS: just one problem . . .
High tech sensors aren't as great as they appear to be in practice.Posted on January 16, 2008 4:48 PM • 27 Comments •
What causes traffic jams
One person's driving can do it. Who is this guy?Posted on December 20, 2007 4:35 PM • 21 Comments •
Toxic releases. Shhhh.
Double the toxics, double the fun.Posted on December 11, 2007 4:29 PM • 1 Comments •
More drugs down the drain
Sewage full of drugs. Really full of drugs.Posted on December 4, 2007 4:36 PM • 4 Comments •
Small concerns about nanotechnology
But big problems?Posted on November 30, 2007 4:13 PM • 2 Comments •
Energy's pot and kettle
Clean energy spending. Guess who leads?Posted on November 28, 2007 4:47 PM • 6 Comments •
Particulate air pollution is local
They're not choking us. We're choking ourselves.Posted on November 19, 2007 3:57 PM • 8 Comments •
Blog Action Day: chickenshit on the half-shell in Maryland
Poultry farms running amok. Straight into the Bay.Posted on October 15, 2007 7:56 AM • 5 Comments •
Tamiflu in the sewer, drug resistance and the main question
Resistance of the bird flu virus to Tamiflu is probably bad. Probably.Posted on October 4, 2007 7:14 AM • 12 Comments •
The best of the worst is still horrible [correction appended]
The best of the ten most poisoned places. Be grateful and be warned.Posted on September 15, 2007 7:51 AM • 7 Comments •
Smoking ban in UK: same story in five newspapers with different headlines
Rashomon plus one.Posted on September 11, 2007 3:55 PM • 19 Comments •
Edwards's cancer policy: a disappointment
Not a public health approach.Posted on August 28, 2007 4:05 PM • 10 Comments •
The Terminator terminates environmental regulations
Schwarzenegger really is a Republican. In case you were wondering.Posted on July 5, 2007 3:06 PM • 5 Comments •
Saving an endangered species (Republicans?)
Interior Department official resigns. So what else is new?Posted on May 3, 2007 4:44 PM • 31 Comments •
