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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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