Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuál es la esencia del acuerdo reciente entre el Centro Para Diversidad Biológica y el gobierno federal con respecto a agregar muchas más plantas y animales a la Lista de Especies en Peligro de Extinción?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿De qué se trataba el proyecto de ley BULB relacionado con la eficiencia de energía de las bombillas que acaba de ser derrotado en la Cámara de Representantes?
Dear EarthTalk: Pharmaceuticals were in the news again recently, how they are polluting water and raising a host of health issues because we dispose of them both unused and used through body waste elimination. What can be done?
Formaldehyde Should Have Been Regulated Ages Ago, But Political Interests PrevailIn June of this year the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated its list of “known carcinogens” to include formaldehyde, a chemical that has been linked to cancer for decades. The reclassification of formaldehyde follows the completion and subsequent release of a series […]
Breast cancer rates are highest in six Texas counties with the most natural gas drilling operations.
If you are looking to avoid toxic products in your household, you should look more closely at your laundry detergent.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Recuerdo que los desechos médicos, que paraban en Nueva Jersey, si estoy en lo cierto, eran un problema grande al final de la década de los ochenta. ¿Es un problema todavía?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué es la “contaminación de fuentes difusas”? ¿Cuán grave es este problema y cómo puede ser controlado?
Dear EarthTalk: What’s the gist of the recent agreement between the Center for Biological Diversity and the federal government regarding adding many more plants and animals to the Endangered Species List?
Dear EarthTalk: What was the BULB Act pertaining to light bulb energy efficiency that just failed to pass in the House of Representatives?
Ten years out the health impacts of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers in NYC are still being felt with an increase in cancers & other illnesses.
Architects, builders and developers are working on a new generation of skyscrapers that are safer and more sustainable.
