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

- Sandra Steingraber

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

- Sandra Steingraber

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…

- Sandra Steingraber

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

- Sandra Steingraber

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

- Sandra Steingraber

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…

- Sandra Steingraber

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

- Sandra Steingraber

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…

- Sandra Steingraber

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…

- Sandra Steingraber