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EPA Drifts Toward Deemphasizing Value Of Human Health When Calculating Cost Of Environmental Rules

Meanwhile, lawmakers urge EPA to move faster to regulate dangerous industrial chemicals. The New York Times: The E.P.A.’s Review Of Mercury Rules Could Remake Its Methods For Valuing Human Life And ... read more

Trump’s EPA Poised to Undo Progress on Mercury Pollution Reduction

It then reviews the data and provides analysis of the MATS’ effectiveness. This analysis demonstrates state-by-state decreases in toxic emissions and associated health and economic benefits. In 2011, ... read more

Trump Administration Wants To Upend Time Limits For Detaining Migrant Children Set By Decades-Old Court Decree

(Green, 9/6) The New York Times: The E.P.A.’s Review Of Mercury Rules Could Remake Its Methods For Valuing Human Life And Health When writing environmental rules, one of the most important ... read more

Sludge, a free fertilizer for farmers, can pose health and environmental risks

Sludge begins as human waste, manufacturing chemicals, landfill runoffessentially, anything that flows down a drain, which makes knowing its ... health problems. Despite the uncertainty of sludge's ... read more

Revealed - The 7 fish pregnant women must ALWAYS avoid: FDA completes first conclusive list of most damaging seafood for unborn babies

The FDA has finally revealed its highly-anticipated guidelines on which fish are most dangerous for pregnant women. For years, health ... or high in mercury. But now the finally-completed list gives ... read more

What Hillary really meant to say on her historic night

I HAVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE. LORD KNOWS I CAN WAIT THIRTY MORE SECONDS WHILE YOU CHANT. I rode here on the backs of a thousand essays entitled, CAN WOMEN HAVE IT ALL? I have had to hear the word ... read more

Palo Alto is changing for the worse and its effecting our teens

Intellectual curiosity has been replaced by the idea that the only idea worth having is one that makes a quick billion. Its all about money And the liberal bent has been replaced by a fake superficial ... read more

The Energy Transition and the Question of Perfection

I just read an interesting piece on the widely influential VOX, by David Roberts, called “A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy.” It is worth a read, but I have some problems ... read more

UCS Blog - The Equation (text only)

By the time I was 20, I had traveled and seen parts of the Western world that continue to enrich my life ... could allow studies to be used even without making the data public on a case by case basis ... read more

The Oil Spill Belongs To All of Us

Well, I’m back. Over the past month, the devastating BP spill that began April 20th has become catastrophic in scale. And that’s an understatement. In short, the BP oil spill is as bad as it gets. ... read more

Pregnant women who don't eat enough fish at risk of premature birth

For decades it has been suggested that omega-3 fats such as EPA - eicosapentaenoic ... they could contain high levels of mercury. Around eight in 100 births in the UK are born prematurely. Researchers ... read more