When Water Hurts—In Flint and Beyond
Clean, safe water is a right, not a luxury in this country....
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The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
Enlist Duo Active Ingredients Linked to Cancer
Chemicals. Cancer. Cash. Wonderful plot devices for a binge-worthy television series featuring a Winnebago-driving high school teacher turned kingpin. Not so...
Getting to know the HPA axis
In my last post , we discussed how a chemical and non-chemical stressor might interact to make a person more likely to experience an adverse health outcome...
A Case for Non-Chemical Stressors
Imagine for a moment that you have two, Wile E. Coyote-style detonator boxes attached to a single bundle of TNT. One detonator box has one weight pushing the...
Obesity and Environmental Chemicals
Walk down any grocery store checkout aisle, and you are bound to see a magazine or two telling you about how to lose ten pounds in only two short weeks. Change...
Identifying Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Using ToxCast and Authoritative Lists
We are constantly awash in a sea of chemicals. Though the exact number is unknown, nearly 85,000 industrial chemicals (not including pesticides, food additives...