On BPA: How Risky? How Much Concern? When to Act?

Special to Enviroblog by Elizabeth Grossman, who writes about environmental and science issues from Portland, Oregon and is author, most recently of Chasing Molecules. On January 22, in a substantial shift in policy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced...

Talking Toxics Policy: A Historic stakeholder conversation

As Enviroblog readers know, EWG has been pushing for years to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the nation's chemical "safety" law. What's reportable, today, is this: The chemical industry, the EPA and the Obama Administration all now agree...

Thank You For Buying Our Toxic Plastic

It's 1960. Embattled tobacco industry reps, accused by the Federal Trade Commission and health groups of hawking products that kill people, retreat to a sumptuous hideaway and devise a campaign to salvage cigarettes by, among other things, targeting women. Soon...