Environmental Health

August 11, 2009

As we watched each of our five grandchildren and their friends enter this world and begin their life’s journey, it became more and more clear that something is amiss with this generation. How are your children and your friends’ children doing? Most likely, one of three of the children you know in...

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Alice Shabecoff

August 8, 2009

I am off to the east coast to visit my parents in New Hampshire and attend the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh. In the meantime, I want to alert you of some important dates so please pull out your calendars: I am helping MomsRising pass important legislation in California that would ban...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health

August 7, 2009

They say an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure. I wonder what the prevention of 100 million pounds of toxic pollution equals? Can you put a price on not releasing toxics into the environment? Eliminating the need for future clean up? Eliminating the impacts these toxic substances may have...

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Janelle Sorensen

Environmental Health

August 5, 2009

With a looming budget deficit and a staggering $15.5 billion in proposed budget cuts, California's children have lost in a big way. But there is something -- even if that something seems small right now -- that we can do. We can protect our children from the toxicity of bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health Health Care

July 30, 2009

Want to say goodbye to those ever increasing parental worries about toxic chemicals used in everything from sunblock to beach balls, and even canned peaches? So do we! We're sick and tired of reading report after report about dangers associated with the products we use everyday: Biphenol-A (BPA) in...

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Ariana Kelly

Environmental Health

July 28, 2009

How many chemicals are in everyday products? How much of them do we make every year? What could they do to the environment and health? No one knows and no one's really trying to find out, but we can put an end to the idiocy.

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Janelle Sorensen

Environmental Health

July 22, 2009

Want to say goodbye to those ever increasing parental worries about toxic chemicals? So do we! We're sick and tired of reading report after report about dangers associated with the products we use everyday. MomsRising has joined a growing movement of workers, scientists, fertility experts, and...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

July 16, 2009

UPDATE: There were some questions on my diary at Daily Kos as to the science that was presented. Research had been released by California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment . The scientists presented their evidence before the "science advisory board's...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health

July 8, 2009

From Your Woman In Washington Written by MOTHERS volunteer Kelly Coyle DiNorcia (ahimsamama.blogspot.com) I recently took a ride down to Princeton, NJ to see a talk given by a woman named Shannon Hayes. It was about what she calls Radical Homemaking, or Enlightened Homemaking. Radical Homemakers...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health

July 8, 2009

Today I was in Sacramento testifying in support of a bill that would help eliminate flame retardants from baby and toddler products. The good news is the bill survived the business and professions committee and is off to the Assembly appropriations committee. The bad news is it was watered down a...

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Elisa Batista