As someone often suffering from the ill effects of toxic indoor air quality, I have become a fresh air enthusiast. After a year of inhaling what seemed to be indoor poison coming from my heating and cooling vents, I headed to the mountains for a large dose of fresh air.
In light of recent political decisions to withdraw the nation from global efforts to address climate change, reverting to mother nature may be the simplest way to achieve the goal. The nation's organic farmers are offering an immediate solution to one of the most pressing and challenging dilemmas facing the...
Richmond, BC, Canada - The organic breakfast and snack food production business, Nature’s Path Foods, has received a Zero Waste Certification for its third facility in Sussex, Wisconsin. Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has recognized the sustainability efforts of Nature’s Path and have also given Zero Waste Certifications to its...
Washington, D.C. — Beyond Pesticides, a national environmental health organization, represented by the Richard Law Group has filed a lawsuit against Mott’s, specifically its parent company Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, under the District of Columbia's Consumer Protection Procedures Act. The suit claims that Mott’s is misleading its customers by falsely...
Washington, D.C. — An article in the Washington Post reports that as part of the spending bill passed by Congress this week to avoid government shutdown and fund the government until the end of September, $3 million will be allocated to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program to...
A new study published in the Journal of Public Analysis and Management has found evidence that prenatal exposure to emissions from a Pennsylvania Power Plant in a large region of New Jersey downwind from the plant had an impact on the birth weight of infants. Researchers studied singleton births between...
In recent years, the World Health Organization classified glyphosate (the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup) as a probable carcinogenic. This statement was backed by a number of research studies linking glyphosate to a variety of cancers including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, renal cancers, skin cancers and pancreatic cancer. In subsequent meetings...
Polluting the shores of all five continents as well as lakes and rivers around the globe, microplastics are tiny pieces of debris formed from the degradation of plastic. Scientists have expressed increasing concern over the potential threat to aquatic systems and public health by the accumulation of these microparticles. Here,...
Increasing consumer interest in food purity, ecology and environmental protection support the ongoing timeliness of Frances Thicke's book "A New Vision for Iowa Food and Agriculture." Drawing on his lifelong experience as a family farmer, soil scientist and organic dairy farmer Thicke's thesis unites concerns about CAFOs, nutritious organic dairy...
