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By Carolyn Raffensperger The BP disaster demands justice. People are looking for asses to kick, ways to make BP–or the government—pay for their failures. Some have argued that we are all to blame because we use fossil fuels. Others argue that the oil industry is solely liable because they were negligent, under-prepared and [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger and Nancy Myers But a renaissance, a rebirth occurs not just because there is a rising of images and archetypal symbols. A renaissance happens because the soul is breached, the psyche unlocked, and a flood of new questions are released as to who we are and what we contain. – Jean [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Last week (May 2-9, 2010), I was a member of the Defending Sacred Places Advocacy Delegation, a project of the Women’s Earth Alliance. We met with Native American leaders in Nevada and Arizona seeking ways to use the law to protect sacred sites from mining and pollution. Here is an update of my [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Note: Just last week I heard yet another reason why a government agency couldn’t regulate toxic chemicals in children’s toys. That incident inspired me to compile all the excuses I’ve heard over the years about why the public has to put up with the polluting, damming, bulldozing, and mining destruction of the Earth. [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger The Obama administration is taking on a sacred cow –space missions. They want to privatize the rocket fleet and thereby reduce the costs of NASA so they can balance the federal budget. Of all the agencies that are near and dear to American’s hearts, it is NASA and their remarkable space [...] By Nancy Myers I’ve been thinking about cumulative impacts. This is not my choice. I’d rather be thinking about my coming grandchild than about this lumpy, awkward term, “cumulative impacts.” But my work at SEHN points me to this, and I do this work for that grandchild. Jargony as it may be, “cumulative impacts” is descriptive. Impacts are [...] Guest Blog by Caitlin Sislin As a young environmental attorney, I am fortunate to count Carolyn Raffensperger as one of my most trusted mentors. Carolyn’s advice and guidance deeply inform my work as the Advocacy Director for Women’s Earth Alliance, where I am building and stewarding a new pro bono legal and policy advocacy initiative to [...] By Ted Schettler MD, MPH Testimony in support of House Bill 33; General Assembly of Maryland An Act concerning child care articles and toys containing bisphenol A (Note this legislative testimony provides a brief history of the science on the chemical bisphenol A.) Thank you for the opportunity to testify today in support of House Bill 33. My name [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger My environmental health friends have long argued that the fact that every last person, human and nonhuman, carries a body burden of toxic chemicals is a violation: it is chemical trespass. We were not informed. We did not consent. It is an injustice. Environmentalists were working off of this equation. By Carolyn Raffensperger Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom for winning the much-deserved Nobel prize for economics. She won the prize for her work on the economics of “common pool resources”, which are defined as “natural resources that are difficult to divide up or to fence in and where what one user of the resource does can [...] |
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