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Toxic Tuesday: Tracker Edition
Bad news sells, and I am just as guilty as those who fill our news feed with murder, mayhem and whatever’s happening in D.C. But I tend to focus on the toxic stuff (the real toxic stuff not the trendy stuff like: toxic love, toxic bosses and toxic work places). The stuff that ought to […]
Here’s to a less toxic 2018, despite…
I had contemplated making a top ten list of 2017’s most toxic hits. But that would be depressing. This is just one year…or four. We won’t know just how far this administration can turn back the toxics protection clock, but for almost fifty or so years despite our constant worry about eating conventional berries or […]
It’s Just Another Toxic Tuesday
As the days grow increasingly darker, having just turned back the clock, so too the U.S. EPA is working to turn back the clock. Here are a couple of choice selections from this month’s science-realm news; as usual, two downers followed by at least one positive so if you just “can’t stand it” anymore, skip […]
Dear Mr. Pruitt, let’s talk about lead.
Dear Mr. Pruitt, Last week I wrote to you about DDT. This week let’s consider lead. Like DDT, another jaw-dropper for my environmental toxicology undergrads. You may not remember leaded gasoline. It was phasing out just as you were probably hitting the road. But I do, and I remember feeling good about asking for “unleaded” at […]
