Environmental Group of the Pittsburgh Section of the American Chemical Society
07/01/2016
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/a-call-for-action-on-toxic-chemicals/?_r=0
A Call for Action on Toxic Chemicals A coalition of top doctors, scientists and health advocates is calling for more aggressive regulation of chemicals found in household items.
05/14/2016
http://www.vice.com/read/no-one-knows-how-much-herbicide-is-in-your-breakfast
No One Knows Exactly How Much Herbicide Is in Your Breakfast | VICE | United States A new lawsuit raises a lot of questions about what exactly is in the stuff we put in our faces every morning.
03/08/2016
The mercury doesn't lie: We've hit a troubling climate change milestone - The Boston Globe Thursday, while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded histor…
12/10/2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/opinion/sunday/contaminating-our-bodies-with-everyday-products.html
“Exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy and lactation is ubiquitous,” the organization cautioned, adding that virtually every pregnant woman in America has at least 43 different chemical contaminants in her body. It cited a National Cancer Institute report finding that “to a disturbing extent babies are born ‘pre-polluted.’”
Contaminating Our Bodies With Everyday Products The political system was slow to respond to the truth about ci******es. Now it’s similarly behind in protecting us from toxic chemicals.
12/03/2015
"Here are seven simple guidelines on how your choices today affect the climate tomorrow."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/03/upshot/what-you-can-do-about-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
11/03/2015
Don't forget to vote today!
Polls are open in Pennsylvania. Find your polling place → votesPA.com
10/27/2015
Green Beauty Expo tonight!
We're super excited! Thanks to our generous sponsor, UPMC Health Plan, we are able to give away 10 free tickets to this evening's event! The first ten people who provide a comment on why green beauty matters receive free admission!
10/14/2015
Join us this Friday for a showing of The Human Experiment and panel discussion on chemical exposure, health, and safety.
3pm in Mellon Institute Conference Room
Snacks served!
10/09/2015
You can now sign up for the Kretschmann's winter CSA! They have the best veggies around.
We plan to still be hosting pickups at Mellon Institute
Winter Boxes 2015-2016 | Kretschmann Family Organic Farm Pittsburgh CSA Family Farm Organic CSA, Local Organic Produce
09/12/2015
How Your Furniture Endangers Firefighters Consumer goods are increasingly made of synthetic materials and coatings. The carcinogens they give off when they burn could be driving high cancer rates among first responders.
08/11/2015
What you—yes, you—can do to improve Pittsburgh’s air quality - NEXTpittsburgh Yes, it's bad but we can work to vastly improve Pittsburgh's air quality. Here are some ideas, starting with holding more people accountable.
07/21/2015
"The way we use electricity—every light switch, every phone charger—has turned central Appalachia into a “sacrifice zone,” a term coined to describe Cold War nuclear fallout regions in the Soviet Union that has come to refer to areas where residents become victims of the pollution caused by an outside demand for their resources."
http://www.newsweek.com/cancer-epidemic-central-appalachia-354857
The Cancer Epidemic in Central Appalachia America’s energy addiction is killing Kentucky.