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...past five years have found that the substance, which mimics the human hormone estrogen, alters brain structure and chemistry as well as the immune system and reproductive organs. Some of these effects show up at extremely low doses, in some cases 2,000 times below the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) safety guideline, according to Frederick vom Saal, a University of Missouri endocrinologist. Chemical companies say the findings are not applicable to humans, but the federal National Toxicology Program has launched a reassessment of the safety standard. "The literature around BPA is very controversial," warns EPA scientist Earl Gray. "Next year...
Currently, 447 million kilograms of chemical pesticides are used in U.S. agriculture every year. Sure, they rid crops of pesky insects and fungi, but most of them are carcinogenic. Although conventional farms must abide by EPA guidelines for safe levels of pesticide residue on crops, this does not protect the thousands of farm workers who suffer severe illnesses from having to spray the toxins. At current levels of pesticide residue, none of us will be suing Harvard University Dining Services for feeding us conventionally grown tomatoes at the salad bar. But long-term consequences are largely unknown and a cause...
...former Bush administration officials will serve as visiting fellows at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this semester. Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and former New Jersey Governor, will arrive on campus Dec. 4, and Michael J. Gerson, the former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who coined the term “axis of evil,” will be on campus for several days in mid-October. “It’s great to have two such high profile Republicans at a time when there?...
...Today, EPA is issuing the most health-protective national air quality standards in our nation's history," EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said in a telephone briefing with reporters. "All Americans deserve to breathe clean air, and through these more protective standards that is exactly what we are delivering today...
...Basically, the EPA seems to have decided that a compromise on fine particles is better than no movement at all. The science that short-term exposure to fine particle pollution increases the risk of death and illness from asthma, heart attack and stroke is is so overwhelming that the agency had to take action on that front. But there is enough wiggle room in the long-term data that the agency felt it could leave the annual standards where they...