Environment and Health
Watch Out for Those Brain Cancer Apps
While they emphasized that future research is needed to establish a more definitive connection, the researchers’ comprehensive review of relevant studies does suggest that an increased risk of glioma, a type of brain cancer, is associated with mobile phone use.
Chugging Down the Wrong Track
Most nations use health care to maximize the well being of their citizens. A few use it to maximize corporate profit. The United States is among the latter.
Fukushima, USA
Just to be sure we’re all on the same page, here are a few things we ought to acknowledge right off the bat about nuclear power.
Stand up to Big Plastic
What will our grandchildren think of the disposable plastic bag?
Entergy Goes Nuclear over Vermont’s Decision
The nuclear power boys are weaseling again, this time in Vermont.
The Abortion War Cranks Up
America recorded 1.2 million abortions in 2008. While this sounds like a lot, the availability of birth control and sex education has greatly reduced the U.S. abortion rate over the years. So has the invention of new post-sex “Plan B” drugs.
Same Old from the Nuclear Gang after Fukushima
The nuclear industry has promised the world cheap, safe, and clean energy for 60 years. As the Japanese government continues to extend its nuclear evacuation zone around the Daiichi nuclear complex in Fukushima, the pushers of nuclear power–including President Barack Obama–still demand that Congress approve ever-larger subsidies for new reactors.
America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System
The new norm is underinsurance. About 40 percent of us go without needed care because we can’t afford it. The health care law won’t change that, even once it’s completely phased in. Our plague of medical bankruptcies will continue too.
Obama’s Dirty Energy Fixation
Just days after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami unleashed a nuclear disaster in Fukushima, President Barack Obama signed a nuclear power cooperation agreement with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. Like Japan, Chile is seismically active. It suffered the sixth-most powerful earthquake–8.8–ever recorded on a seismograph only last year.
Learning from the BP Oil Disaster
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana one year ago, killing 11 crewmembers and causing the release of some 210 million gallons of oil that did not stop flowing until August. It became the largest oil disaster in American history. It could happen again.
