Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
And now some good news on drinking water. It seems like I don’t often get to write about good things happening in the drinking water world, so today is a nice change of pace. Rep. Waxman, Chairman of the Committee...
Posted by Mae Wu in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
So you eat organic, avoid using bug sprays around the house, and keep the yard looking good with elbow grease rather than chemicals. That’s great! Does that mean you are safe from pesticides? Unfortunately, maybe not. You could very well...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Last week, I wrote about our work with Congressman Markey to push FDA to take action on the endocrine disrupting chemicals triclosan and triclocarban. As a result, we got a bit of a boost with FDA's announcement that the products that use...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
Come on, FDA. Like I mentioned in my recent blog on soaps, we are really concerned about the use of triclosan and triclocarban in “antibacterial” soaps. We had been trying to get some answers from FDA for a year now,...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
Just got an email from my husband - he’s heading home early from work because he’s got a cold. Which means that I’ve got to be vigilant to avoid catching his cold, so I’m going to be washing my hands...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
World Water Day – it’s a huge issue and is there anything one person can do to tackle such a big issue? Yes, and it’s an easy one: step away from the bottled water and go watch a movie. We...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
Happy World Water Day, yall. This is the day that we stop and consider the fact that we are very lucky. We have some of the safest water in the world and don’t have to trek miles from our homes...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
Cough, cough, cough. It’s that time of the year again: cold and flu season. It means that I’ve already spent a few days at home to avoid spreading too many germs to my colleagues. It also means that I’ve been...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
And the results are in: there's lead in our home's water. More precisely, there's lead in our home's pipes, and it is leaching into our water. I'm not terribly surprised although it did feel like I got a bad report...
Posted by Mae Wu in Health and the Environment
I work in the public health program here at NRDC, mostly on toxic chemicals in consumer products, drinking water, and pesticides. But instead of focusing on my work, I'm going to write about trying to take the things that I know...
