Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today NRDC joined a coalition of advocacy groups filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to consider all the risks associated with endosulfan, an extremely hazardous persistant bioaccumulative pesticide and the topic of several previous NRDC...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
The dangerous pesticide endosulfan was in the news this week, as the presence of 22,000 pounds of it on a capsized ferry in the Philippines has prevented divers from recovering some 800 bodies from the vessel. Although the presence...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
To commemorate Workers Memorial Day, April 28, 2008, many worker and community health advocacy groups including the Environmental Justice Foundation, Pesticides Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today the very prominent Dr. Ronald Herberman, one of the worlds most prominent cancer researchers and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute joined with NRDC and over fifty-five prominent international scientists, medical doctors, nurses, and other health professionals...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
Early this week I let readers know about a petition that NRDC filed to have endosulfan banned in the US. In our petition, we listed many of the environmental and human health hazards associated with this persistent, bioaccumulative toxic pesticide....continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
In 2002, the US Environmental Protection Agency completed its assessment of the risks of endosulfan. About 1.4 million pounds of this chemical are used in the United States each year on a wide variety of crops, where it runs off...continued→
