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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
- Fracking Revisited August 5, 2013
- Federal Chemical Policy Reform June 28, 2013
- Indoor Air Pollution May 30, 2013
- 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
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Bobbi Chase Wilding, MS
Deputy Director, Clean & Healthy New York
Bobbi Chase Wilding has more than a decade of experience in the environmental health movement. She serves on the Advisory Board for New York State's Pollution Prevention Institute and is part of the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse planning committee. Previously, she co-led the Emerging Technologies and Fenceline Action Workgroups for a global collaborative of over 250 individuals and organizations working to change the rules of the game around chemicals policy. For this collaborative, she helped organize the 2006 “Environmental Justice for All” tour of contaminated communities. She designs and publishes the websites of Clean and Healthy New York and the JustGreen Partnership as well as Clean and Healthy New York materials.
She previously worked for NYPIRG and Citizens' Environmental Coalition, including as Associate Director for four years. While at CEC, she developed the interactive-map-based www.ecoTHREATNY.org and wrote Environmentally Safe Hospitals, and Environmental Racism in New York State. Bobbi earned her BS in Environmental Science and her MS in Ecological Economics, Values and Policy, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She lives in Cobleskill, NY, with her husband, Dave and two daughters, Ananda and Madeleine.
Posts
Strong public policy and market transformations: The one-two punch for toxics reform, May 17, 2012