Gina Solomon's Blog
About
- Bio:
I've been a Senior Scientist at NRDC for twelve years, and my work is focused on protecting people from toxic chemicals. I've worked on preventing mercury and lead poisoning, researching levels of diesel exhaust inside school buses, working to ban the most dangerous pesticides, getting endocrine disrupting chemicals out of consumer products, and helping to answer people's questions about their health and the environment. I have also been very involved working with communities, and testing the air, water, and soil in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to identify toxic contamination that needs to be cleaned up. More recently, I've become really worried about the looming health threats from global warming - so that's my newest focus of work. When I'm not at NRDC, I see patients in a clinic, and teach at UCSF (University of California at San Francisco). I went to medical school at Yale, and did a residency in Internal Medicine, followed by a Fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Harvard. I live in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood with my partner of 23 years and our two dogs. You'll find us hiking the hills around the Bay Area most weekends.
- Roots in:
- New York City
- Favorite place:
- Mount Tamalpais
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- What motivates me is the hope of having a world where people can be healthy, and not sickened by pollution. For our own health, we need clean air, safe drinking water, products that won't poison us, and neighborhoods that aren't being dumped on by some polluter. In my view, environmentalism is all about creating homes, neighborhoods, and a world where we can live healthy lives. We also need a planet that can sustain us and the next generation -- that's why we need to stop cooking with greenhouse gases.
Recent Blog Posts
- Bisphenol A: Is it Gone? What's Next? (April 18, 2008)
- Federal Agency is First to Acknowledge Risks of Plastic Chemical (April 14, 2008)
- Lead in Toys and in our Air (March 31, 2008)
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Lead Polluter (March 24, 2008)
- Air pollution standards: Will the next debacle be about lead? (March 17, 2008)
- Eco-Consumers and Health (November 1, 2007)
- White House Meddling in Health and Global Warming Science (October 24, 2007)
- Sneezing and Wheezing: Ragweed, Ozone, and Global Warming (October 17, 2007)
- Why Won't Toxic Lead Just Go Away? (October 12, 2007)
- Chemicals, Fragrances, and Sensitivity (October 10, 2007)
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