by Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families is a coalition of over 450 public health, environmental, community and parent organizations working to protect American families from toxic chemicals. Lindsal Dahl is the organization's Deputy Director. Agreement is growing across the political spectrum and among scientists, health
Less Cancer Founder, Bill Couzens Capitol Hill, Washington, DC Thank you for being here today my name is Bill Couzens, Founder of Less Cancer and Next Generation Choices Foundation, on behalf of the board of directors we want to extend our Heartfelt gratitude to Congressman Steve Israel for the introduction and sponsorship of
NEW YORK (August 20, 2012) Exposure to air pollution in the womb and continuing exposure during early childhood increase risk for development of non-atopic asthma, according to a study by researchers at Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Pyrene -a
In a recent blog post in Prevention Robyn O'Brien founder of Allergy Kids had been invited to speak to a group of 400 in Montana that included farmers, parents, foodies and agriculturalists. As O'Brien reports, she opened the night to questions, reporting a farmer’s daughter spoke hesitatingly at first about seed companies and global banks. O'Brien makes
By Bill Couzens, Founder Less Cancer Richard Nixon launched the War on Cancer (not his words) in 1971 and since then we have suffered untold incidences of cancer and spent billions of dollars on research. We live in a time when cancer has become so commonplace that the news of new cases seems almost