David Steinman
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 You get all these environmentalists criticizing Dow, but, frankly, the company has played a key role in helping to revolutionize polymers—which are a major global industry and user of petroleum—and shift not only the nation's but the world's focus from oil to corn. I spent eighteen years at Dow and loved my work there. In fact, Dow and Cargill originally partnered ro build NatureWorks, and both companies were in ir rogerher unril 2002 when Cargill bought out Dow. I've been with this project from the start, and I love it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recently, more than 400 environmentalists, investors and celebrities gathered for the unveiling and induction of the only five-passenger, all-electric, freeway-speed sport utility trucks at Los Angeles' famed Peterson Automotive Museum, and there, they nabbed a sneak peak at the newest electric automobile soon to be launched: The Phoenix Motorcars "SUT" or sport-utility truck.
These new SUT vehicles will be made available by Phoenix Motorcars (www.phoenixmotorcars. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Dry particles of mercury travel effortlessly in effluent clouds across the American landscape—migrating from coal-burning power plants in the Midwest to points often thousands of miles away, where they literally rain out of the sky in what environmentalists commonly refer to as "mercury polluted rainstorms." Once mercury particles shower to earth, they lace every acre, from forest floors to neighborhood parks to rippling ocean waves. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Plus, unlike many environmentalists in the nonprofit sector, Janet had a background in corporate America. She'd spent four years as political director of the phone company Working Assets.
"I already knew that it was possible for companies to be sustainable and do the right thing. I knew that companies weren't all necessarily black and white, that there were a lot of shades of gray within the corporate community," Janet said. "So I went out with this naive kind of attitude, which was like, well, why wouldn't you want to do the right thing? |
| Even for watchdog environmentalists, those of us who monitor hazardous pollutants as part of our daily routines and read disturbing scientific data with our morning coffee, this one was a stretch. In recent years, researchers had found plenty of other toxic surprises lurking in the baby shampoo, men's cologne and various tubes of expensive makeup. But a heavy metal that reduces kids' IQs in products we're advised to "re-apply frequently" to the lips? An e-mail warning, circulating since 2003, had been widely dismissed. |
| Beauty consultant Rebecca Gadbury stood up from the audience and explained that the opponents weren't typical environmentalists. "This is the Breast Cancer Fund and that group in Marin where they have high rates of breast cancer. This is totally personal," Gadbury said. "The politicians are not voting on facts. They are voting because their mother died of breast cancer." A hush fell over the room, Susan recalled. "It was like there was this sudden understanding that these aren't just hippie liberals, these are people who are sick. This is mainstream America. Maybe we need to pay attention. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This is truly bad news for people in Great Britain where Prozac is being taken in such large quantities that it can now be found in Britain's drinking water. environmentalists are calling for an urgent investigation into the revelations, describing the buildup of this antidepressant as "hidden mass medication." The Environment Agency has revealed that Prozac is building up both in river systems and the groundwater used for drinking supplies.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., Prozac has been in major waterways for months already. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The meeting was fraught with conflict, which only intensified when the State University of New York at Buffalo environmentalists working with Vena presented a map to residents that night charting two other major waste sites that had, for years prior to being cleaned up, lingered unaddressed in the East Ferry and Delavan-Grider neighborhoods. The history of the sites and their rampant contamination—and how long it had taken for them to be addressed—left residents doubly infuriated. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Some time ago, it came to the attention of people who notice these things that frogs were dying at an unprecedented rate, and environmentalists and other concerned citizens were convinced that a prime cause was a particular insecticide called carbaryl that was making its way into the waterways. The folks who manufactured carbaryl said, "No way, Jose. We've got studies showing carbaryl is not lethal to frogs. It can't be our fault. |
David Steinman
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| Greenpeace
Greenpeace has rallied millions of people to become environmentalists. Today, Greenpeace is regarded as having first alerted shoppers to the widespread hazards of PVC in ordinary consumer products. www. greenpeace.org
Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC has worked in all areas of the environment from toxics by taking on Alar in the 1980s to promoting sustainable forestry and fisheries. Their top flight attorneys are in the thick of legal battles to protect our natural resources. www.nrdc. |
| The company is highly regarded within the industry and by environmentalists who recognize that the company is serious about its responsibilities, shown most clearly by Forest Stewardship Council certification of some eighty-four thousand acres of forest lands in the Adirondacks. Domtar uses recycled fibers wherever possible. However, because most of their products require virgin fibers, Domtar works with the Forest Stewardship Council to develop extensive guidelines for the forests they manage. The company holds its suppliers accountable as well. |
Devra Davis
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 Environmentalists were desperate to have this agency because they felt sure it would show who had been hurt by pollution. Ed Frost and the chemical industry also favored the creation of this agency, but they had quite different expectations. They believed ATSDR would show how little harm had come from chemical contamination. It is a matter of some irony that the ATSDR came into existence only after a very unusual team emerged. |
David Steinman
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| In New York City, the big question, however, is how much legroom commuters expect from their taxis. environmentalists in New York City were keenly interested in seeing some of the taxi fleet converted to hybrids. The hybrids approved for use, for now, however, had smaller foot and legroom than the other roomier fossil fuel cabs.30 These included the 2006 Ford Escape hybrid, 2006 Mercury Mariner hybrid, 2006 Toyota Highlander hybrid, 2006 Toyota Prius,
2006 Honda Civic hybrid, 2006 Honda Accord hybrid, and the 2006 Lexus RX 400H. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 When leaders of Ontario's three main parties voluntarily gave blood and urine samples to environmentalists to be analyzed for seventy chemical contaminants linked to health problems, all three carried a bewildering variety of pesticides, residues from stain and grease repellents, and compounds used in plastics.
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Mark Schapiro
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 One of the major concerns among environmentalists and foreign governments at the time, was whether these new controls would be applied to the export of those products to other countries. Sure enough, they were not. As a young reporter at that time, I coau-thored a book with David Weir which revealed that there was indeed a thriving export trade for those banned and restricted chemicals in developing countries. A global double standard was in full bloom. By the millions of gallons these chemicals were exported to countries like Honduras, Peru, India, and indeed, to Mexico. |
| Some environmentalists had even promoted genetic engineering as a means of decreasing the applications of toxic pesticides and relying on genetically engineered pest resistance instead. Proponents faced a challenge, however: how do you prove a negative, that genetically engineered crops are not unsafe? In the United States, Vice President Quayle's declaration had provided an important government imprimatur: the new food crops were essentially the same as naturally evolved varieties, so no special attention to their ecological or health consequences was warranted. |
| Down" went "mandatory substitution," a defeat for environmentalists, to be replaced by "substitution when safer alternatives are available"; "up" went more public information to be made available for "substances of very high concern." Over more than two hours, as each amendment was agreed upon or ousted, the outlines of an agreement between the Christian Democrats and Socialists took form.
From Washington, however, President Bush signaled that the struggle was far from over: He nominated a man to be the new U.S. |
| From its inception to final passage, REACH had gone through many changes. environmentalists in Europe thought they had been sold out by some of the compromises, including the diminishing data requirements for substances produced in amounts of ten tons a year or less, and the removal of mandatory substitution requirements for hazardous substances in favor of obligating producers to submit plans for developing substitutes within six years of submitting a registration request. |
David Steinman
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| Ten inches "is approximately the difference in backseat space between a standard New York taxi and the new hybrid SUVs that environmentalists would like to see added to the city's fleet of 12,760 yellow cabs," said a wire report.
What would New Yorkers decide? People like their comforts. Would they go for a smaller ride or for a nostalgic ride in the fossil fuel past? According to the report, "Mark A. Izeman, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said he is certain hybrids will be embraced by cabbies and customers alike. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Otherwise, all seems unformed and void, even to most environmentalists themselves.7
In fact, the true environmental record is far from a blank slate. There is a rich and well-documented history of injury and illness, much of it concentrated in the workplace or in neighborhoods contaminated from spillage just beyond the factory door. This history has a clear and important message to transmit. |
David Steinman
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| These vehicles are quickly becoming the darlings of strange bedfellows: both conservative hawks and environmentalists, who see such fuel efficiency as key to ensuring national security and fighting climate change. Reducing dependence on the turbulent Middle East 'is a war issue,' said former CIA Chief R. James Woolsey, who calls the cars' potential 'phenomenal.' What's the secret? It's as simple as adding more batteries and a plug to hybrids such as the Prius."
The plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are superhybrids with larger batteries. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| Web site founded by Fluoride Action Network, a group formed in 2000 by scientists (including EPA scientists), dentists, and environmentalists to educate the public on the toxicity of fluoride compounds and the health impacts of current fluoride exposures.
Chlorine, added as a disinfectant to water, becomes a problem when it unites with other pollutants and/or organic matter, such as decaying vegetation, to form trihalomethanes (ThMs). |
Mark Lynas
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 Will we all, as some environmentalists suggest, be reduced to eking out a living from shattered remains of civilisation in Arctic refuges, or will life go on much as before - if only a little warmer?
As I pondered these questions, I had already begun to sift through the latest scientific literature on global warming. I knew from earlier research for my first book High Tide that scientists have now made hundreds of projections - mostly based on complex computer models - of how future global warming will affect everything from maize crops in Tanzania to snowfall in the Alps. |
| Even environmentalists can be tempted by displacement: the vilification of George Bush - indefensible though his stance might be - is easier for most of us than having to face more tricky challenges closer to home.
Climate change is a classic 'tragedy of the commons' problem, where behaviour which makes sense at an individual level ultimately proves disastrous to society when repeated by everyone. The concept's originator, Garrett Hardin, gives the example of cattle herders using a shared pasture to illustrate the problem. |
| It seems clear to me that no amount of barracking from bearded hippie environmentalists will persuade society at large that the consumer treadmill is not the quickest route to health and happiness. Most of my neighbours still shop in supermarkets, even though they have to drive to them in cars and are depriving local shopkeepers from making a living in the process. An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. |
Bill Sardi
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 While environmentalists express outrage at the existence of cancer-causing chemicals and radiation in the daily environment, Dr. Bruce Ames of the University of California points out that nutrient deficiencies produce the same breaks in human chromosomes as does exposure to radiation. [Toxicology Letters 28: 102-03, 1998] It is estimated that between 20 and 40% of all cancer cases are caused by dietary factors, at least 35% by tobacco use, and 5% by abuse of alcoholic beverages. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 By the 1960s, vegetarians, hippies, environmentalists and other idealists joined the cry, recommending soy foods as the solution to world hunger, the path to good health, the key to healthy aging and the way to preserve our environment.
Sadly, big business and big government have usurped their impossible dream. Old-fashioned whole soy foods that contribute to health if eaten in moderation have given way to ersatz products that lead inevitably to malnutrition and disease. |
Alex Steffen
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 But a few years back, researchers, birders, and environmentalists shared an "aha!" moment— they realized they could ease the coordination of diffuse data by connecting the thousands of enthusiastic citizen birders directly with advanced technological tools.
Thus hatched eBird. Thousands of individual birders across North America have signed up, contributing their ongoing sightings and field data to a collaborative database on bird populations and behavior. |
Carlo Petrini
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 It is no longer a secret or a claim of the more radical environmentalists: we consume more than it is possible for the planet to provide without upsetting its own equilibrium.
3. THE MILLENNIUM ASSESSMENT
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was commissioned in 2000 by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in order to study the impact of ecosystem change on human health and to document the actions needed to help conserve ecosystems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA's recent approval of another dangerous diabetes drug estimated to have already killed 80,000 Americans is yet another runner up in the Population Control Award category.
Another theory is that the U.S. government is so financially bankrupt that it can't afford to pay Medicare or Social Security benefits to anyone who reaches retirement age, so perhaps it's finding new ways to make sure people never reach retirement age! Keep 'em alive long enough to work 'em to death and collect their tax revenues, then knock 'em off before the benefits kick in! |
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