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BPA: Here to Stay?
Controversial panel will decide whether bisphenol A poses a health risk Last week, several dozen scientists issued a consensus statement that ubiquitous chemical compound bisphenol A likely poses health and reproductive risks to humans. This week, an expert panel will finalize a report for the U.S. National Toxicology Program on whether humans should indeed try […]
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A look at Mike Gravel’s environmental platform and record
Update: Mike Gravel switched from the Democratic Party to the Libertarian Party in March 2008; after failing to secure the Libertarian nomination, he ended his presidential campaign in May 2008. Mike Gravel, the darkest of the dark-horse candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1981. He then […]
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Step It Up 2 is coming this November — get ready to hit the streetsAsk politicians to join Step It
Bill McKibben is organizing Step It Up 2, a national day of climate action. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist’s […]
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Shop With the Grist Staff
Your purchases support us — not that we’d pressure you, or anything Ever wondered what the Grist staffers are like when we step away from the website-manufacturing machine? Now you can find out more about a few of us in the Grist Staff Picks Store at Amazon. OK, we admit it, this is a naked […]
