Posts tagged: #Environmental Working Group
Fukushima Radiation: Is It Still Safe To Eat Fish? Since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan?s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, concerns about the flow of radioactive material into the ocean continue to raise questions. While … Read More
New Study Links Neonicotinoids to Bee Virus A team of scientists in Italy believe they have found the molecular mechanism through which neonicotinoid pesticides impacts the immune system of honey bees. The team?s experiments suggest that exposure to neonicotinoids results … Read More
Environmental Working Group’s Guide to?Good Food on a Tight Budget? Stretching your dollars to get a month’s worth of healthy, filling food is a challenge. Environmental Working Group assessed nearly 1,200 foods and hand-picked the best 100 or so that … Read More
World Bank Closes Door on Financing of Coal-Power? The World Bank plans to limit its financing of coal-fired power plants to ?rare circumstances”, while assisting countries in finding alternatives to coal.? According to the report, the bank ?will cease providing … Read More
2013 Guide to Sunscreen With summer approaching, the Environmental Working Group recently released its 7th annual?Sunscreen Guide?rating?the safety and efficacy of more than 1,400 sunscreens, lotions, lip products and makeups that advertise sun protection. EWG researchers found that only 25 … Read More
2 Studies Point to Common Pesticide as a Culprit in Declining Bee Colonies In Thursday?s issue of the journal Science, two teams of researchers published studies suggesting that low levels of a common pesticide can have significant effects on bee … Read More
Tell President Obama to Deliver on His Climate Promise! The State Department has just released its environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and, as we?d feared, the results are flawed. Despite the President?s talk on confronting climate … Read More
Interview with Michael Pollan Last week, Michael Pollan came out with an an article in The New York Times Magazine Section, discussing California’s Proposition 37, which if passed, would mandate labeling genetically modified foods. In response, Pollan participated in a … Read More
