KBR and DoD expose workers and soldiers to a carcinogen but it's not a big deal
Profiteering and cancer in Iraq. What a nice couple!Posted on July 15, 2008 7:28 AM • 14 Comments •
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Environmental health:
Bush administration is protecting privacy and constitutional rights -- of tomatoes
At least the Constitution is still intact for tomatoes.Posted on July 8, 2008 7:30 AM • 19 Comments •
Food safety proposal: throw the bums out
Keystone cops tomato caper.Posted on July 1, 2008 7:49 AM • 27 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 •
Safeguarding ground zero rescue workers, another heck of a job well rewarded
Incompetent crony alert.Posted on June 8, 2008 3:26 PM • 26 Comments •
The mortgage crisis and disease
High risk pools.Posted on June 7, 2008 8:09 AM • 5 Comments •
I'll have some tomatoes, Salmonella on the side
The food chain, compromised.Posted on June 4, 2008 8:31 AM • 10 Comments •
More hilarity from "junk science expert" Stephen Milloy
Shill for corporate America says, "Don't worry, be happy."Posted on May 29, 2008 10:25 AM • 5 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 •
Once again: dead bodies don't cause disease epidemics
How many times do we have to say it?Posted on May 19, 2008 10:02 AM • 49 Comments •
Bush admin on perchlorate in drinking water: we'll get to it . . . maybe
Bush EPA drags its feet . . . or it its knuckles . . . again.Posted on May 17, 2008 8:55 AM • 11 Comments •
Germs in the middle seat
The airplane as an environment for infection.Posted on May 16, 2008 10:50 AM • 11 Comments •
Now keeping us safe is illegal, too
Protecting the cattle industry, one Bush appointment at a time.Posted on May 11, 2008 4:02 PM • 31 Comments •
A death from rabies [clarified 5/11/08]
A terrible way to die but it can be prevented.Posted on May 9, 2008 2:24 PM • 33 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 •
Manufacturing chemicals, manufacturing doubt
A new book with sordid details on the manipulation of science and a current example of the same.Posted on April 28, 2008 7:13 AM • 13 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 •
EPA, scientific committees and conflicts of interest: a follow-up on the Deborah Rice affair
Congress investigates the EPA -- again.Posted on April 6, 2008 3:26 PM • 1 Comments •
Piped water: two edged sword
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drinkPosted on March 24, 2008 7:41 AM • 8 Comments •
Water and reckless irresponsibility in Iraq
Cheney's company again. When will this nightmare end?Posted on March 10, 2008 7:01 AM • 22 Comments •
Listeria sandwiches
The low down on Listeria.Posted on March 9, 2008 3:38 PM • 7 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 •
More than you wanted to know about chromate induced cancer
A bumper crop of cancers.Posted on February 27, 2008 7:38 AM • 6 Comments •
Life's a (contaminated) beach
Getting your shit together at the seaside.Posted on February 26, 2008 7:05 AM • 4 Comments •
That pesky cell phone issue again
More evidence for the biological effects of cell phones.Posted on February 25, 2008 4:09 PM • 14 Comments •
CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job
So what else is new?Posted on February 16, 2008 4:30 PM • 25 Comments •
Bird flu and arsenic
Is there an interaction between this toxic metal and the bird flu infection?Posted on February 6, 2008 7:03 AM • 15 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 •
Dangerous losers toy with public safety
Trying to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to do its job is an up hill battle.Posted on January 11, 2008 4:49 PM • 6 Comments •
The Gospel of Environmental Protection
Bible thumper at the EPA.Posted on January 8, 2008 4:56 PM • 8 Comments •
Fluorescent lights
"Health experts warn" that low energy bulbs are health hazard. What's up?Posted on January 7, 2008 4:01 PM • 21 Comments •
Food labels: the font of all knowledge can be pretty small
There's a lot of stuff about tainted food in the news, whether it is toxins in imports or questionable additives in US products (e.g., bisphenol A in hard plastics). This stuff is not on any food label, of course, but...Posted on December 26, 2007 4:14 PM • 9 Comments •
Poultry workers and drug resistant E. coli
Another hazard of poultry workers. As if they didn't have enough.Posted on December 21, 2007 4:58 PM • 3 Comments •
Toxic releases. Shhhh.
Double the toxics, double the fun.Posted on December 11, 2007 4:29 PM • 1 Comments •
Wet markets: going viral
A recipe for emerging infectious diseasesPosted on December 11, 2007 7:01 AM • 4 Comments •
More drugs down the drain
Sewage full of drugs. Really full of drugs.Posted on December 4, 2007 4:36 PM • 4 Comments •
Cholera set to ravage Baghdad
Let them drink feces.Posted on December 2, 2007 4:03 PM • 5 Comments •
Small concerns about nanotechnology
But big problems?Posted on November 30, 2007 4:13 PM • 2 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 •
The Pump Handle: One year and counting
A milestone event in the public health blogosphere.Posted on November 16, 2007 4:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Poisons by the barrel full.
Poisons cause poisoning. Surprised?Posted on October 31, 2007 3:59 PM • 12 Comments •
Chemical plants: internal dangers, external costs
Bruce Schneier, the security guru at Wired's Danger Room blog, reminds us of something important: It's not true that no one worries about terrorists attacking chemical plants, it's just that our politics seem to leave us unable to deal with...Posted on October 29, 2007 3:56 PM • 6 Comments •
Blog Action Day: The Gospel according to DuPont
At least you'll die wrinkle-free.Posted on October 15, 2007 4:07 PM • 2 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 •
Bisphenol A. What's all the noise about?
I have just one word for you. Plastics.Posted on October 4, 2007 4:19 PM • 24 Comments •
New (and good) paper on DDT and breast cancer
It's all about timing.Posted on October 2, 2007 7:36 AM • 13 Comments •
Methyl iodide: strawberry fields forever
Toxic fumigant on the way to a field or store near you.Posted on September 28, 2007 7:54 AM • 2 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 •
. . . and breathe normally
Air pollution reaches high levels.Posted on September 9, 2007 4:34 PM • 26 Comments •
Edwards's cancer policy: a disappointment
Not a public health approach.Posted on August 28, 2007 4:05 PM • 10 Comments •
We're having a heat wave
It's all relative.Posted on August 27, 2007 7:29 AM • 3 Comments •
Water: kicking the bottle
Water, water everywhere. And it's all in bottles.Posted on August 8, 2007 7:24 AM • 29 Comments •
Flight of the bumblebee
Powerline frequency electromagnetic fields do have biological effects!Posted on August 3, 2007 4:03 PM • 26 Comments •
Rescuing TCE from regulatory limbo
George Bush: Man of Non-actionPosted on August 2, 2007 4:04 PM • 4 Comments •
Heck of a job, FEMA
Buy a trailer from FEMA. The sweet smell of embalming fluid, no extra cost.Posted on July 23, 2007 3:37 PM • 20 Comments •
Mosquito-borne disease in droughts and hurricanes
Which is worse: floods or drought?Posted on July 23, 2007 7:09 AM • 4 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 •
Railroad safety: next stop oblivion
Railroad safety. Is the administration aboard?Posted on June 10, 2007 3:32 PM • 12 Comments •
Cell phones and honeybees
Are cell phones the cause of the honeybee problem?Posted on April 16, 2007 4:55 PM • 29 Comments •
Pesticides pathways
Pregnant Latina women have more pesticides in them. From where?Posted on March 23, 2007 4:22 PM • 7 Comments •