NRDC in the News 10/14: Seafood safety refuted, Keystone XL pipeline's carbon footprint, coal ash bill and more...
Posted October 14, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
Time.com covered an NRDC report on Gulf seafood safety, quoting Miriam Rotkin-Ellman from her Switchboard blog, in which she refutes findings by the FDA that deem Gulf seafood safe to eat, as well as the method by which the FDA formed its assessment… USAToday.com carried a piece by the Tallahassee Democrat that quotes Miriam as saying, "everybody is using the numbers FDA published, and they are flawed." Medical News Today and Food Safety News also covered NRDC’s seafood study…
Danielle Droitsch spoke to the Associated Press about the enormous carbon footprint the Keystone XL pipeline would have, as well as the fears Americans have of the pipeline running underneath their land and the risk of spills… Bob Keefe was a guest on Los Angeles Public Radio KCRW's "To the Point" discussing Solyndra and the international race for clean energy solutions… Sarah Janssen lauded the recent listing of chlorinated Tris as a known carcinogen by the state of California, calling it a “public health victory” to ABC-7 (San Francisco TV) … Scott Slesinger explained to Louisville, Kentucky's NPR station WFPL that an imminent House bill on coal ash would “stop the EPA regulatory process in its tracks and replaces a scientifically-driven rule with the congressional environmental standard that is acceptable to the utilities”… Treehugger reported on an NRDC poll that found that 70 percent of Americans disapproved of the Obama administration’s recent decision to block life-saving ozone standards…
