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About
Welcome to PSR's Environmental Health Policy
Institute, where we ask questions -- then we ask the experts to
answer them. Join us as physicians, health professionals,
and environmental health experts share their ideas, inspiration, and
analysis about toxic chemicals and environmental health policy.
Topics
- State Toxics Policy April 30, 2013
- Obesogens March 20, 2013
- Clean Energy December 12, 2012
- Radioactivity and Health October 31, 2012
- How Effective Is the EPA? September 24, 2012
- Particulate Matter August 22, 2012
- Hydraulic Fracturing June 18, 2012
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
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Alexandra Scranton
Alexandra Scranton is the Director of Science and
Research at Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE).
She is the author of “What’s That Smell?: How the Pine Forest in Your Cleaning
Product May Be Hazardous To Your Health” and other scientific reports published
by WVE. Alexandra also provides scientific review for the organization’s
programs. Prior to working at WVE, she worked in the epidemiology and
statistics unit at the American Lung Association headquarters in New York.
Alexandra currently sits on the Research Advisory Committee for the California
Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative and on the Institutional Biosafety Committee
for Rocky Mountain Laboratories (a National Institutes of Health facility). She
has a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana
and a BA from Amherst College. Alexandra lives and works from Pullman, WA, with
her husband and two beautiful daughters.
Posts
Health Hazards of Fragrance in Cleaning Products: What You Don't Know Might Hurt You, November 3, 2011