Kathy Attar, Toxics Program Manager at Physicians for Social Responsibility, testified recently before the Consumer Product Safety Commission, urging them to ban harmful organohalogen flame retardants in children’s products, furniture, mattresses and electronic casings. Read more »

Clean water is a public health issue for all communities. The Clean Water Rule, finalized in 2015, helps protect the water for the third of people in the U.S. whose drinking water comes from upstream sources such as streams and wetlands, which are not protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Read more »

The assault on our environment and health by the current EPA continues. EPA is planning to delay limits adopted in 2015 on the toxic pollution that power plants can discharge into waterways. Read more »

Over 90% of people in the U.S. have the harmful chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in their bodies. What strategies can clinicians recommend to help reduce exposures to this toxic chemical? Read more »

Our newly reformed environmental chemicals policy, the Lautenberg Act, is caught in the middle of an assault on the EPA. Read more »

Rep. Gaetz of Florida has introduced a bill in Congress to "terminate" the Environmental Protection Agency. How good an idea is that? Read more »

It's pretty outrageous when the person nominated to lead the Environmental Protection Agency seems to be focused on dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more »
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Under the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the federal law that regulates industrial chemicals, EPA has announced the first ten harmful chemicals to be evaluated for risks to human health and the environment. Read more »
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When my daughter was young she put everything in her mouth, as most babies and toddlers do. Read more »

A study published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal highlights the billions of dollars hormone-disrupting chemicals take away from the U.S. economy yearly. Read more »

Last summer the U.S. updated the federal law (Toxic Substances Control Act-TSCA) that regulates chemicals in manufactured products. EPA's first major decision under the reformed TSCA is the choice of which chemicals to review first. Read more »

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned the state's pro-fracking "Act 13," ruling it unconstitutional. Read more »

A federal judge recently ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency need not require producers to disclose inactive ingredients in pesticides, even when the products are known to be dangerous to public health. Read more »
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PSR-Chesapeake, environmental advocates and community groups in Baltimore successfully pressured the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) to declare invalid the permit for a trash-to-energy incinerator proposed for construction in Baltimore. Read more »

Last October, I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma, a form of breast cancer. Fortunately, the cancer was diagnosed in the earlier stages and my long-term prognosis is good. Read more »
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The multiple tragedies that have attended the knowledge that large amounts of lead contaminates the water supply for Flint, Michigan, have refocused national attention on the toxin that was forgotten, but not gone. Read more »

Twenty states asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to stay the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, whose goal is to cut toxic mercury emissions from power plants. Read more »

PSR’s writing and advocacy on coal ash brought us before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, where Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb and PSR member Yolanda Whyte, MD of Georgia were asked to provide testimony. Read more »
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Right before the holidays, the U.S. Senate passed legislation seeking to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976. The House passed a different version of reform in June 2015. Unfortunately, both have major flaws that could prevent the public health community from supporting any final legislation. Read more »

As the science continues to evolve on the ways our health is impacted by harmful environmental chemicals it is crucial that any reform of our federal chemical policy empower the EPA to move quickly on the worst chemicals and utilize the best available science to assess chemical hazards. Read more »
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