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- The Health Toll of Climate Change in 2005 and 2011 (December 8, 2011)
- FDA's claims don't add up (November 22, 2011)
- A Family is Biomonitored: What Did They Learn? (November 4, 2011)
- It's National Seafood Month and the FDA Must Protect Consumers from Contaminants in Seafood (October 12, 2011)
- Time for EPA to Get Moving on Risks of Drinking Water Contaminants (September 29, 2011)
- Children Hold Your Breath, Healthy Homes No More (September 22, 2011)
- Waiting for Irene and Remembering Katrina (August 25, 2011)
- Mosquito-Borne Disease and Climate Change: Should you use DEET? (August 10, 2011)
- Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water: Welcome News from California (July 27, 2011)
- Fear-Mongering, Junk Science, and the Chemical Industry (July 14, 2011)
- Advances in Monitoring Equipment Will Help Communities Keep Tabs on Polluters (June 24, 2011)
- Advances in Biomonitoring: How New Science Will Change the Game (June 22, 2011)
- Foodborne Illness Rising: The Need for Safer Food and Effective Antibiotics (June 14, 2011)
- Air Quality and Children's Health: Just the Facts, Please! (June 8, 2011)
- The Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria from Chickens to Farmers (May 31, 2011)
- New Studies Show Long-Term Harm to Children from Common Pesticides (April 21, 2011)
- When a Community is Sick: Gulf Coast Illnesses One Year after the BP Oil Spill (April 4, 2011)
- Health Alert: Disease Clusters Spotlight the Need to Protect People from Toxic Chemicals (March 28, 2011)
- Health Advisory: Environmental Detox Programs Can be Dangerous and What You Need to Know About Blood Testing for VOCs (March 15, 2011)
- Fumigants in California: Let's Avoid a Sophie's Choice Between Toxic Chemicals (February 22, 2011)
- Getting Rocket Fuel out of Drinking Water: Another Step Forward in California (January 6, 2011)
- California Finally Takes Leadership on Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water (December 31, 2010)
- It's the Dose that Makes the Poison: How the FDA Is Not Protecting Many Gulf Coast Residents from Possible Seafood Hazards (December 8, 2010)
- Toxic Strawberry Fumigant in California Will Endanger Health (December 1, 2010)
- Six Months, Five Shrimp, and One Nasty Mess: Health & Seafood Safety Concerns from BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today (October 17, 2010)
- Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You? (September 2, 2010)
- Seafood Safety: Lessons Learned from Exxon Valdez (August 30, 2010)
- Five Years After Katrina Psychological Wounds Reopen on the Gulf Coast (August 27, 2010)
- Years After Oil Spill, Report Finds Increase in Respiratory Problems & Cancer Risk in Workers (August 23, 2010)
- Assessment of Gulf Seafood Safety Needs to Protect Vulnerable Populations (August 17, 2010)
- Health Effects of the Gulf Oil Spill: JAMA Commentary (August 16, 2010)
- How Much Seafood do Gulf Coast Residents Eat? Take a Survey! (August 2, 2010)
- The Gulf Oil Spill and Seafood Safety (July 31, 2010)
- Air Quality Data for Gulf Workers: More Worrisome Findings (July 8, 2010)
- Respirators for Some Gulf Workers, Finally! (July 6, 2010)
- Oil Spill Air Quality Updates for the Gulf Coast - Updated 8/30/10 (August 30, 2010)
- OSHA Limits Don't Protect Gulf Coast Workers (June 16, 2010)
- BP Coughs Up Another Drop of Air Quality Data: Not Reassuring (June 10, 2010)
- Offshore Air Quality in the Gulf: BP Data Still Inadequate (June 8, 2010)
- Oil Odors: If You Smell It, Is It Toxic? (June 7, 2010)
- Dispersants Demonstrate Flaws in Chemical Policy (May 27, 2010)
- It's Time for a Check-Up...on PETCO and PetSmart (May 25, 2010)
- Gulf Oil Spill Air Quality Updated 6/20/10: Louisiana (May 24, 2010)
- Oil Spill Clean-Up Workers Getting Sick (May 23, 2010)
- EPA Tells BP to Switch to Safer Oil Dispersants: Good Move! (May 20, 2010)
- Sick Fishermen and Oily Smells on the Gulf Coast (May 18, 2010)
- What's in the Air Along the Louisiana Coast? (May 12, 2010)
- Oil Spills and Human Health: Lessons from History (May 9, 2010)
- Community Needs on the Gulf Coast: Louisiana (May 8, 2010)
- Back in New Orleans -- 5 Years Later (May 7, 2010)
- Q&A PART 3: Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Your Health – Tips for Clean-Up Workers (May 6, 2010)
- Q&A PART 2: Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Your Health – Who’s at Risk? (May 5, 2010)
- Q&A PART 1: Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Your Health – the Basics (May 4, 2010)
- The Other Oil Disaster: Cancer and Canada's Tar Sands (May 3, 2010)
- From Canada to the Gulf Coast: The Unhealthy Tale of Petroleum (May 2, 2010)
- The Gulf Oil Spill: Human Health is Affected Too (May 1, 2010)
- Countdown to Earth Day: Chemical Reform is Closer Today! (April 15, 2010)
- "Antibacterial" Soaps: Buyer Beware! (April 5, 2010)
- California Leadership on Carcinogens (March 29, 2010)
- Protecting Children from Pesticides: The EPA Needs to Get Back to Work (March 24, 2010)
- Endocrine Disruptors in Drinking Water (March 9, 2010)
- Safer Chemicals Mean Safer Lives and Saved Money (January 21, 2010)
- The Health Burden from Toxic Chemicals (January 20, 2010)
- Tell PETCO & PetSmart to Take Toxic Flea Products Off Their Shelves (January 13, 2010)
- BPA and Heart Disease: New Scientific Data and New Reasons for Action (January 12, 2010)
- Contaminated Soil in New Orleans: New Research Finds Arsenic is from Katrina Flood (November 16, 2009)
- H1N1 Vaccine and Thimerosal: To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? (October 27, 2009)
- The Legacy of Erin Brockovich: Chromium Contamination in Drinking Water (October 13, 2009)
- Hurricane Katrina 4 Years Later: Four Principles for Preparing for Climate Disasters (August 28, 2009)
- Back to School Time: How to Avoid the H1N1 Flu (August 26, 2009)
- Saving Environmental Health Leadership in California (May 22, 2009)
- Flu Protection: Hand Sanitizer not Antibacterial Soap! (May 1, 2009)
- Flu Pandemic Level 5: What to Do? (April 29, 2009)
- Swine Flu: The Need for a Strong Public Health System (April 27, 2009)
- My Toxic Dog: Personal Experiences with Flea Collars (April 23, 2009)
- FDA Mischief: Mercury in Fish (December 16, 2008)
- Health Risks at Schools (December 8, 2008)
- Monitoring: For Your Health (December 4, 2008)
- Pesticides and Reproductive Harm: New Developments on Dursban (November 19, 2008)
- More Monitoring Mischief: EPA and Lead Pollution (October 21, 2008)
- New Standard for Lead in Air: A Giant Step Forward (October 15, 2008)
- Fighting Fleas on Pets...Safely (October 14, 2008)
- The Battery Industry in the White House (October 12, 2008)
- Post-Sabbatical Dreams (October 11, 2008)
- 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)
- Eat Fish or Don't Eat Fish? (October 4, 2007)
- Clearing the Air: Walgreens Pulls Worrisome Air Fresheners from the Shelves (September 20, 2007)
- Air Fresheners - How safe are they? (September 19, 2007)
- Preparing for Global Warming (September 12, 2007)
- Chemical Toxicity Testing (September 9, 2007)
- Everything's Toxic? (August 31, 2007)
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