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Category Archives: Environmental Health

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Europe Bans Bee-Harming Pesticides; US Keeps Spraying | Mother Jones

Europe Bans Bee-Harming Pesticides; US Keeps Spraying —By Tom Philpott| Fri May. 3, 2013 3:00 AM PDT Darios/Shutterstock On Monday, the European Commission voted to place a two-year moratorium onmost uses of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are a widely used class of chemicals suspected…

Food Health Europe vs US

7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here —By Tom Philpott Eiffel Tower: Iakov Kalinin/Shutterstock, Spray can: Knumina Studios/Shutterstock, Skull:Arcady/Shutterstock, Last week, the European Commission voted to place a two-year moratorium on most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides, on the suspicion that they’re contributing to the…

President Obama Signs Monsanto Protection Act – EcoWatch: Cutting Edge Environmental News Service

President Obama knowingly signed the Monsanto Protection Act over the insistence of more than 250,000 Americans who signed an urgent letter asking that he use his executive authority to veto H.R. 933 and send it back to Congress to remove the Monsanto Protection Act from the bill. Regretfully, President Obama failed to live up to his oath to protect the American people and our Constitution.

Germs and Hygiene: MedlinePlus

When you cough or sneeze, you send tiny germ-filled droplets into the air. Colds and flu usually spread that way. You can help stop the spread of germs by

No safe level for tobacco, report says

Even limited exposure to tobacco or secondhand smoke can lead to cardiovascular and other health problems, a new US public health report said Thursday.

Metal pollution tied to Parkinsons disease

  Metal pollution tied to Parkinson’s disease: “People living near a steel factory or another source of high manganese emissions are at higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, suggests a new study.   As many as one million Americans live with the degenerative…