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Strange omission in bottle assessment: Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris present in the New York Times a life cycle assessment-lite in their comparision of stainless steel vs. plastic bottles that ...
NPR commentator ignores climate-disease links.: Clive Crook, commenting on NPR's Weekend Edition about the EPA's decision to regulate carbon dioxide, incorrectly asserted that there are no health ...
NPR on precautionary principle.: NPR's exploration of the precautionary principal hits the right notes but gets a few key scientific details wrong.
Terrific story on epigenetics: Writing for Chemical and Engineering News, reporter Ivan Amato does a superb job capturing the science and significance of one the biggest emerging fields in ...
Naive reporting on BPA: With the voluminous reporting on industry influence on regulatory action on bisphenol A, a news story in Environmental Health Perspectives appears naive.
Photo editors gone wild.: While the content of an article covering Suffolk County's (NY) decision to ban bisphenol A from baby bottles was responsible, the photo editors blew it ...
Soy mixture may be alternative hormone therapy.: Eating a mix of soy compounds may be a safer way than traditional hormone therapies to protect against age-related brain disease, finds a new study that tested ...
Simply stunning.: The USA Today series "Toxic Air and America’s Schools" (beginning 8 December 2008) is simply stunning in its scope and breadth.
Unscientific reassurances.: Widespread coverage of a report by the US Geological Survey on contamination in tap water could have done a better job at challenging the Survey’s reassurances ...
What about contaminants?: In an otherwise superb investigative report on labeling failures and lax oversight by government agencies on allergens in food, a story in the Chicago Tribune ...
Diabetes story misses key angle.: In a feature story about the dramatic growth of diabetes in India, the BBC completely ignores emerging evidence of the role of contamination in causing the ...
Vietnam vets face dangers decades later: Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliant Agent Orange are twice as likely to contract prostate cancer as unexposed veterans.
FDA draft decision on BPA deeply flawed: Thirty-six scientists conclude in a peer-reviewed commentary that the FDA's draft decision on bisphenol A uses unacceptable criteria for selecting data and ...
Epigenetics on the Today Show?: This may be the first time NBC's Today Show has ever tried to distinguish between gene inheritance and gene expression and begun to explore how human health ...
Was the fix in?: Investigative reporting by the Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee) raises some disquieting questions about conflicts of interest in FDA's review of bisphenol A.
Dioxin tied to metabolic syndrome in Japan.: A large new epidemiological study in Japan finds that even at background levels of exposure, people with higher levels of dioxin and dioxin-like PCBs are a ...
Part of a much larger story.: While Dr. Shanna Swan's newest data on phthalates and baby boys, published last week in Environmental Research, garnered significant and deserved attention, ...
Connect the dots.: Reporters who work one story at a time need help from scientists to see the broader context.
Californians have world's highest levels of flame retardants.: Californians have the world’s highest levels of toxic flame retardants in their homes and in their bodies, according to new scientific findings published ...
The missed electric moment: No one has reported on what was probably the single most important moment at the FDA hearing on BPA.
Green Chemistry: Real world solutions for real environmental problems.: Despite substantial barriers, green chemistry is making real progress toward solving big environmental problems.
Feminized toads linked to farms.: Toads living in agricultural areas of Florida are more likely to be feminized than their suburban counterparts.
From the Editor: Filling the Void: Editor-in-Chief Marla Cone describes the Environmental Health News mission.
Science News gets it right on bisphenol A: Science News writer Rachel Ehrenberg gets it right in her reporting on a new study that uses human data to link bisphenol A to heart attacks and type 2 ...
Reporting on contaminants and health in Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel: Over the past year, the JS has been publishing a remarkable series of stories about contamination, health and politics. And they just keep coming!

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