"The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today"
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"Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis"
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The Carson Effect
William Souder explains how Rachel Carson's seminal 1962 work Silent Spring shaped (and still shapes) modern environmentalism (from his new book, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson).
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"FDA Seeks to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Delay of Food Safety Rules"
Did the White House Office of Management and Budget put public health at risk to make President Obama's reelection a safer bet? Working in deep secrecy for the past year, OMB blew off legal deadlines to hold up new Congressionally passed food safety rules that even the food industry supported. Now the Food and Drug Administratiion is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by consumer advocates over the delay.
Source: Food Safety News, 12/05/2012
"Eric Cantor Silent On Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Offsets"
"Eric Cantor is rarely shy about his position on disaster relief aid. Even before Hurricane Irene made landfall last year, the House majority whip's office said extra spending on recovery efforts should be balanced by spending cuts elsewhere. But in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Cantor and many of his conservative colleagues have suddenly gone mostly silent on such disaster relief 'offsets' -- even though New York and New Jersey are collectively asking for a whopping $79 billion in federal aid."
Source: Huffington Post, 12/05/2012
Open-Source Background on Federal BioWatch Program
Referenced from "DHS and CDC Refuse To Give House Panel Docs on Failed BioWatch Program," SEJ WatchDog TipSheet, November 28, 2012.
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DHS and CDC Refuse To Give House Panel Docs on Failed BioWatch Program
After wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on a non-working program aimed at protecting the US public from biological attack, the Department of Homeland Security and Centers for Disease Control may be refusing to give documents on the program to House Energy Committee investigators.
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Access to Fracking Info — Still Bad — Improved by Non-Gov Web Initiatives
A geeky nonprofit watchdog group has done what government and private industry have failed to do; the group, SkyTruth, has made data about the ingredients in fracking fluid easily accessible to the public.
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