| Feb 25, 2014 | Environment / HealthHave you had your daily minimum requirement of triclosan today? How about your dose of triclocarban? Chances are you have, but don’t know. These two antimicrobial chemicals disrupt the human body’s normal regulatory processes. Animal testing shows that...
| Feb 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthWhen the EPA opened a new comment period on Jan. 8 for the public to weigh in on proposed greenhouse gas limits for new coal-fired power plants, it didn’t take long for the overblown rhetoric denouncing President Barack Obama’s so-called “War on...
| | Environment / HealthSpring is so close we can almost taste it. If you’re a gardener, you’ve already counted how many weeks until the last frost, ordered your seeds, and perhaps even began starting your seedlings indoors. And if you’re like some gardeners, once...
| Feb 12, 2014 | Environment / HealthCommunities around the country can learn a sobering lesson from the day Atlanta literally froze up. How Congress handles one of its biggest spending decisions will indicate whether our leaders got the message. Atlanta found itself scrambling in mid-February to avoid a...
| | Environment / Health2014 has been a bad year for drinking water. First, a coal industry chemical spill left West Virginia residents in nine counties with water so polluted they could only use it to flush their toilets. And now 82,000 tons of coal ash have found their way into a river...
| Feb 5, 2014 | Environment / HealthSo the Affordable Care Act didn’t exactly deliver the greatest website. What did we get after all those years of haggling? Only health insurance for 9 million people (and counting) who didn’t have it before. Only an end to pre-existing medical conditions...
