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When an organization's tagline reads "The power of information," you know they've got some good stuff to share. For Environmental Working Group, Enviroblog is one repository for all of the data we analyze, policies we evaluate, and reports we write. Whether you're looking for ways to reduce your exposure to toxic chemicals, or a science-based look at the latest environmental health news, our team of writers, scientists and media experts is on the job.

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Elaine Shannon

Elaine, EWG's editor-in-chief has written three books, contributed to two others and authored thousands of magazine and newspaper articles. She grew up in Gainesville, Georgia, where, as a Girl Scout, she hiked the Blue Ridge mountains and explored the Chattahoochee and Chestatee rivers. At the Nashville Tennessean, she focused on the politics of energy, strip mining and air and water pollution, then moved on to Newsweek and Time, covering political, legal and national security issues. She joined EWG in May 2008 to return to environmental and science writing. Elaine, her husband Dan Morgan, a Washington Post agriculture specialist, and their son Shannon Morgan, a Colorado College environmental science student and bicycle racer, climb, bike, hike, ski, kayak and photograph creatures great and small.

Lisa Frack

Lisa writes about her personal experiences in pursuit of low-toxic parenting from Portland, OR, where she lives with her husband and two young children. She comes to Enviroblog with a background in grassroots activism, a masters degree in public policy, and a strong belief that all children can and should be free from harmful toxic chemicals. Her goal is to help readers understand the health effects of the chemicals they are exposed to and to avoid them in the easiest way possible. Better yet, she'll take you along with her as she finds safer alternatives - that don't consume all that 'free' time parents have!

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Olga Naidenko grew up on a remote marine biology research station, which lead to her love of ocean and interest in water quality research and marine conservation. In high school she wanted to become rich by breeding rabbits for sale, but the business failed because she could not tell apart a boy rabbit from a girl rabbit and so she decided to pursue her PhD in immunology instead. She is fiercely opposed to non-recyclable plastic containers and makes her own yogurt, while working on perfecting the fifth language she is fluent in- German.

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