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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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Environmental health:

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!

Bush administration is protecting privacy and constitutional rights -- of tomatoes

At least the Constitution is still intact for tomatoes.

Food safety proposal: throw the bums out

Keystone cops tomato caper.

The main point of "Why the Right Wing attacks science"

It's not what, but who.

Why the Right Wing attacks science

How and and what for.

Safeguarding ground zero rescue workers, another heck of a job well rewarded

Incompetent crony alert.

The mortgage crisis and disease

High risk pools.

I'll have some tomatoes, Salmonella on the side

The food chain, compromised.

More hilarity from "junk science expert" Stephen Milloy

Shill for corporate America says, "Don't worry, be happy."

Shutting down the information spigot at EPA

Opening the back door of an essential chemical hazards database to industry manipulation.

Are there big problems with the very small?

Is nanotechnology hazardous to health and the environment?

California bound (and tied)

The Bush administration and its poodles.

Once again: dead bodies don't cause disease epidemics

How many times do we have to say it?

Bush admin on perchlorate in drinking water: we'll get to it . . . maybe

Bush EPA drags its feet . . . or it its knuckles . . . again.

Germs in the middle seat

The airplane as an environment for infection.

Now keeping us safe is illegal, too

Protecting the cattle industry, one Bush appointment at a time.

A death from rabies [clarified 5/11/08]

A terrible way to die but it can be prevented.

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?

Manufacturing chemicals, manufacturing doubt

A new book with sordid details on the manipulation of science and a current example of the same.

EPA gets the doubt of the benefits

Risk benefit trade-offs without consistently evaluating benefit.

EPA, scientific committees and conflicts of interest: a follow-up on the Deborah Rice affair

Congress investigates the EPA -- again.

Piped water: two edged sword

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Water and reckless irresponsibility in Iraq

Cheney's company again. When will this nightmare end?

Listeria sandwiches

The low down on Listeria.

The CDC Great Lakes report fiasco

What a tangled web we weave . . .

Bush EPA high jinks again. Sigh.

Where there's smoke there's the Bush administration.

More than you wanted to know about chromate induced cancer

A bumper crop of cancers.

Life's a (contaminated) beach

Getting your shit together at the seaside.

That pesky cell phone issue again

More evidence for the biological effects of cell phones.

CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job

So what else is new?

Bird flu and arsenic

Is there an interaction between this toxic metal and the bird flu infection?

Wingspread statement on the Precautionary Priniciple: tenth anniversary

Commemorating an historic event in the American environmental movement.

EPA takes the Fifth

Being an EPA Executive has its Privileges.

Miniature GC-MS: just one problem . . .

High tech sensors aren't as great as they appear to be in practice.

Dangerous losers toy with public safety

Trying to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to do its job is an up hill battle.

The Gospel of Environmental Protection

Bible thumper at the EPA.

Fluorescent lights

"Health experts warn" that low energy bulbs are health hazard. What's up?

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...

Poultry workers and drug resistant E. coli

Another hazard of poultry workers. As if they didn't have enough.

Toxic releases. Shhhh.

Double the toxics, double the fun.

Wet markets: going viral

A recipe for emerging infectious diseases

More drugs down the drain

Sewage full of drugs. Really full of drugs.

Cholera set to ravage Baghdad

Let them drink feces.

Small concerns about nanotechnology

But big problems?

Particulate air pollution is local

They're not choking us. We're choking ourselves.

The Pump Handle: One year and counting

A milestone event in the public health blogosphere.

Poisons by the barrel full.

Poisons cause poisoning. Surprised?

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...

Blog Action Day: The Gospel according to DuPont

At least you'll die wrinkle-free.

Blog Action Day: chickenshit on the half-shell in Maryland

Poultry farms running amok. Straight into the Bay.

Bisphenol A. What's all the noise about?

I have just one word for you. Plastics.

New (and good) paper on DDT and breast cancer

It's all about timing.

Methyl iodide: strawberry fields forever

Toxic fumigant on the way to a field or store near you.

The best of the worst is still horrible [correction appended]

The best of the ten most poisoned places. Be grateful and be warned.

Smoking ban in UK: same story in five newspapers with different headlines

Rashomon plus one.

. . . and breathe normally

Air pollution reaches high levels.

Edwards's cancer policy: a disappointment

Not a public health approach.

We're having a heat wave

It's all relative.

Water: kicking the bottle

Water, water everywhere. And it's all in bottles.

Flight of the bumblebee

Powerline frequency electromagnetic fields do have biological effects!

Rescuing TCE from regulatory limbo

George Bush: Man of Non-action

Heck of a job, FEMA

Buy a trailer from FEMA. The sweet smell of embalming fluid, no extra cost.

Mosquito-borne disease in droughts and hurricanes

Which is worse: floods or drought?

The Terminator terminates environmental regulations

Schwarzenegger really is a Republican. In case you were wondering.

Railroad safety: next stop oblivion

Railroad safety. Is the administration aboard?

Cell phones and honeybees

Are cell phones the cause of the honeybee problem?

Pesticides pathways

Pregnant Latina women have more pesticides in them. From where?