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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
- 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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Susan
Kegley, PhD
Susan
Kegley is a PhD organic chemist and is currently Principal and CEO at Pesticide
Research Institute (PRI), doing environmental consulting related to pesticides.
Prior to founding PRI, she worked for 10 years for Pesticide Action Network.
She also spent 14 years in academia teaching and doing research on environmental
chemistry and organometallic chemistry at UC Berkeley, Williams College, and
Middlebury College. She is an avid gardener and chicken whisperer, and she and
her husband have a backyard garden, greenhouse, and chicken flock that supply
most of their organic vegetables and eggs year-round.
Posts
The Story of Strawberries, February 24, 2011
The Health Costs of Our Food Production System: Pesticide Exposure and Effects on Farmers, Farm Workers, and Rural Residents, August 24, 2011