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JUL-08 The Conscious Consuming blog reprints Katie Silberman's article on green cleaning.
JUN-08 Healthy Cleaners in a Changing World. It's important to understand that much of what we currently know as American culture developed in a different time. Our laws, economic system, shopping habits -- the way we manufacture, transport, use, and throw away all our stuff -- developed in a time when we thought the earth was limitless.
By Katie Silberman in Rachel's Democracy & Health News.
JUN-08 AMA Passes Resolution in Support of Chemical Policy Reform. Reform of industrial chemicals to protect and improve human health. June 2008.
JUN-08 Health professionals endorse strong State Senate energy legislation. Public Health professionals from across Michigan today endorsed clean energy legislation under consideration by the State Senate that takes crucial steps toward improving the health of Michigan’s air and water. June 2008.
JUN-08 Monsanto makes the case for GM crops. Carolyn Raffensberger at the Science and Environmental Health Network says Monsanto's commitments aside, a single technology can't solve the global food. June 2008.
JUN-08 FDA official says baby bottles with bisphenol A safe. Dr. Ted Schettler, director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, took a more cautionary view. He told lawmakers that animal testing showed. June 2008.
JUN-08 C-SPAN video of Dr. Ted Schettler. Testimony before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce. Scroll forward to time count 1:51. June 2008.
APR-08 The e-newsletter of the Center for Environmental Health, featuring an interview with SEHN Associate Director (and CEH Board member) Katie Silberman. April 2008.
APR-08 Maine Legislature Passes Kid-Safe Products Bill www.cleanandhealthyme.org April 16, 2008.
APR-08 Turning video games into movies on NPR's "Marketplace".
April 15, 2008.
APR-08 Despite ruling, NUMEC woes endure. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
April 13, 2008.
APR-08 Carolyn Raffensperger featured in "Coop America" Spring 2008
Introductory Article in "Coop America"
MAR-08 Heal Your Home: The Case For Precaution. Economic Actions for a Just Planet. No. 74 Spring 2008
MAR-08 Watch the PBS show "NOW". This show covers the issue of harmful chemicals in children's toys, highlighting the precautionary principle as the way forward.
FEB-08 Hidden Household Toxins by Rebecca Ruiz, Forbes.
FEB-08 Making Sense Of Biomonitoring - New tool for interpreting data is based on established safe doses for chemicals by Cheryl Hogue, Chemical & Engineering News.
FEB-08 Element in lotions may enter babies' skin by Susanne Rust, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
FEB-08 Baby toiletries linked to chemical risk by Liz Szabo, USA TODAY.
OCT-07 Law school Blog posts Joseph H. Guth's Common Law Judges Must Act On Global Warming
OCT-07 In Pursuit Of A Better Economics - This year's Leontief Prize, issued by the Global Development and Environment institute at Tufts, honors economists challenging conventional thought on climate change. Tufts University.
OCT-07 Outcry, Legal Fight Over Moth Spraying Build in California by Garance Burke, AP.
OCT-07 Associate Director Katie Silberman (and her baby, Lincoln) on the St. Louis CBS News affiliate, speaking about the national recall of cold medicines for infants.
OCT-07 New Pesticide, Old Problems: Methyl bromide. An interview with Ted Schettler on the Living On Earth website.
OCT-07 Pesticide's Use in County Now Up to State Officials by Stephanie Hoops
OCT-07 Stop farm workers, kids & pregnate women from being exposed to a toxic mutagenic pesticide by UFW.
OCT-07 The Visionary Activist Show on KPFA, 94.1 in Berkeley, CA. An interview with Carolyn Raffensperger.
SEP-07 Green Healthcare in America: Just What are We Doing? by Joel Kreisberg, DC in The Journal of Science and Healing
SEP-07The Reactionary Principle: inaction for public health by David Kriebel
SEP-07Environmental Injustice: Children's Health Disparities and the Role of the Environment by Lawrence D. Rosen, MD and Deirdre Imus in The Journal of Science and Healing
SEP-07Ted Schettler speaks with Diane Horn about the implications for human health of adding fluoride to municipal water systems. Audio file on the KEXP (Seattle public radio website).
SEP-07Mendocino County Begins Precautionary Principle Pilot Programs
AUG-07 The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls: What We Know, What We Need to Know. A new report by SEHN Board member Sandra Steingraber on the Breast Cancer Fund website
AUG-07Carolyn Raffensperger is blogging about the Iowa caucuses for the Des Moines Register
AUG-07"Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry" (New Society Publishers)
JUL-07Carolyn Raffensperger is quoted in the August issue of Vogue magazine, featuring the story "An Inconceivable Truth: The Link Between Infertility and the Environment." (Requires Acrobat 8)
JUL-07Broad International Coalition Issues Urgent Call For Strong Oversight of Nanotecnology. Press Release and Principles for the Oversight of Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials [PDFs]
JUL-07Can You Imagine? Facets Bonus Edition [PDF] by Carolyn Raffensperger
JUL-07Immediate Action Needed On The Outdated 1872 Mining Law, Indigenous Environmental Network
JUL-0765 Little Green Gems in Facets for Women by Carolyn Raffensperger
JUN-07Baby Bottle Blues - Are Chemicals Lurking in Your Baby's Bottle? by Kelly Burgess on babiestoday.com
APR-07Nutrition and Food Production - What Role Should the Medical Profession Play? By Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
APR-07Letter to EPA calling for tighter air standards on ozone, American Lung Association [PDF]
APR-07Action on climate change needed now, rallygoers say; benefits are for future generations by Heidi Marttila-Losure, Staff Writer Ames Tribune
FEB-07U.S. Green Building Council's Guiding Principles Include Precaution by Tom Lent U.S. Green Building Council
FEB-07Audio (.mp3) Interview with Ted Schettler, M.D. Commonweal
FEB-07Faith and Thought: Returning soldier has much to teach us by Carolyn Raffensperger, Mid-Iowa News
OCT-06NTP Draft Brief on DEHP by Julia R. Barrett, Environmental Health Perspectives
JUL-06 Environmentalists want tougher mercury rules by John McCarthy - AP
JUL-06 The Power of Precaution by Carolyn Raffensperger with Bioneers editor-at-large Kim Ridley
JUN-06Mendocino County Supervisors Adopt Precautionary Principle
JUN-06NIH To Phase Out Enviromental Justice Funding by David A. Schwartz, M.D. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
JUN-06County Eyes Ban on Genetically Engineered Crops by Roger Sideman, Santa Cruz Sentinel
JUN-06 Mendocino County vote on Precautionary Principle Policy
MAY-06Portland: Local Governments Adopt Toxics Reduction Strategy using the Precautionary Principle
MAR-06The Berkeley City Council passed its Precautionary Principle Ordinance on March 7, 2006
MAR-06Carolyn Raffensperger is the guest blogger for the month of March on the web site www.Onthecommons.org.
FEB-06 Phthalate Safety Concerns Merit Substitute Products by Ted Schettler, M.D., MPH.
FEB-06 Toward an ecological view: Complex systems, health, and disease by Ted Schettler, M.D., MPH.
FEB-06Governor Signs Executive Order to Make Maine a Cleaner, Safer, Healthier Place, Augusta, Maine
FEB-06Big Medicine's Malignant Growth by Stan Cox, AlterNet
JAN-06 Dell's Chemical Use Policy
The following article is re-printed from the Dell web site. Copyright 1999-2006 Dell Inc.
JUL-05Great Lakes Regional Collaboration. The new Great Lakes compact features the precautionary principle. Draft Action Plan
JUN-05 Infant Exposure to Controversial Compound Continues in Hospitals by Steve Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter
JUN-05 Precautionary Principle Pushed in the United States by Susan Casoni, Pesticide.Net Insider eJournal
MAR-05 A Body's Burden: Our Chemical Legacy by Douglas Fisher, Regional Environmental Reporter
The Oakland Tribune
NOV-04Guest Viewpoint - Climate change: Keep focused on the big picture by Joshua Skov, The Register-Guard, Eugene OR
NOV-04 Toxic hazard's impact on health to be explored by Tammy Webber, Star-Tribune energy reporter, Indianapolis Star
AUG-04Putting a meter on coalbed water by Dustin Bleizeffer, Star-Tribune energy reporter, Star Tribune – Laramie, WY
JUL-04 Differing dioxin standards have differing purposes by Dr. Ted Schettler and Dr. Peter Orris, My View Column, Saginaw News
APR-04Bill could introduce precaution into environmental law by Christopher Root, Gazette staff writer, Legislative Gazette, Albany N.Y.
FEB-04GEMS: Better Safe Than Sorry by Peter Montague and Sharon Finlayson, Op-ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
FEB-04Studies Link Chemicals to Health Woes by Edward Ortiz, The Providence Journal
JAN-04Government as Guardian and Trustee of the Commonwealth by Carolyn Raffensperger, Op-ed in the Ames Tribune
OCT-03The Perils of Plastic: Your Cling Wrap Could be Leaching Chemicals by Melissa Knopper, E Magazine
AUG-03Mercury Battle Hits Fever Pitch: Utility executives working furiously to fend off environmental rule by Jim Morris, The Dallas Morning News


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