Moms Descend On Congress To Urge Toxic Chemical Reform

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Moms Descend On Congress To Urge Toxic Chemical Reform Christine Nienstedt is a fairly typical mom. Her time is stretched thin between work and her kids' soccer games -- and navigating the array of toxic chemicals that fill her family's world. Keystone XL Would Raise Gas Prices, Report Finds ONE YEAR LATER: Joplin Recovers Former Mine Boss Demands New Trial Pit Bulls Removed From Vicious List Obama To Push Clean Energy Technologies In Iowa BLOG POSTS Raffi Cavoukian: The Environment Is Dead: Long Live Mother Nature The environmental movement failed to change the way we look at the world and our place in it. Nature became "the environment": a reductionist term devoid of relationship. And environmentalism itself became divisive. Lee Crockett: The Bottom Line: A Short Season for Big Fish This year's purse-seine fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea kicked off this week, but don't blink or you might miss it. Greg Asbed: Field Notes on Food Justice: Why Your Local Grocery Store Makes Farmworkers Poor "Fresh and Fair from Florida"... Five words that would look so beautiful stamped on your next tomato purchase. Five words that would signify a revolution in agricultural working conditions. Michael Brune: Solar Rollover Credits: The Right Thing for California Very quietly, California utilities are threatening to undermine the dream of widespread clean energy in our state. Smithsonian: The World's Top 10 Treks (PHOTOS) The fact that people still opt to walk today, in the age of the wheel and the combustion engine, tells us there is something virtuous and irresistible about plodding.

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