Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size)….

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step..

The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the g….

By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many ar….

... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves….

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded..

We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience….

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act..

Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gall….

In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezu….

Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies whose mothers lived near cr….

I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote wa….

We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you….

Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into t….

We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that ….

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes i….

Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main route of exposure ….

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time.….

As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accident….