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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
- 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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Jessica Hendricks
Jessica Hendricks works as the senior program coordinator at the Global Community Monitor. A community organizer, she holds a bachelor's degree in political science and has completed The Midwest Academy's 'Organizing for Social Change' training. She worked previously at the Sierra Club, where she organized people to take on large corporations that were polluting the environment, including an Environmental Justice campaign around the construction of new power plants in the historically disadvantaged community of Hunter's Point in San Francisco. Jessica has also served as a field organizer for MoveOn.org and organized student action on Darfur. She currently serves on the Board of the ACLU - Berkeley North East Bay Chapter.
Posts
When People and Industry Live Side-by-Side: Health Impacts of PM Pollution, August 22, 2012