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Why Endocrine Disruptors Should Be a Household Word

April 25, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
babybottles, bisphenol-a, BPA, breastcancer, endocrinedisruptors, hardplastic, phthalates, plasticbottles, simplesteps

In the past week, there have been a lot of news reports and blog chatter about BPA, also known as bisphenol-A. Finally, government agencies, consumers, and manufacturers are starting to take this toxin seriously. But BPA is only one member...

The Twilight of Dirty Coal

February 11, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
californiautilities, citigroup, coalfiredpowerplants, dirtycoal, globalwarmingpollution, investmentbanks, jpmorganchase, morganstanley, wallstreet

Many of the issues we work on take decades to get the results we want. But at other times, things begin to fall into place with surprising speed. That’s happening now with dirty coal.Over the past year, one after another...

The Bipartisan Air You Breathe

November 15, 2007

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
apolloalliance, cleanair, cleantech, E2, globalwarming, markettransformation, newyorktimes, powershift, schwarzenegger, tomfriedman

I am in Washington today for meetings. The weather is alright--it’s raining, but warm, probably in the mid-fifties. The air is harder to read, however. As I walked along the sidewalk, I couldn’t tell if I was breathing Republican air...