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Facilitator: Judith Robinson, Environmental Health Fund and Coming Clean Collaborative
Presenters: Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute * Kathleen Curtis, Clean and Healthy New York * Michael Schade, Center for Health, Environment and Justice * Matt Vinci, Vermont Firefighter
Flame retardants are associated with numerous health risks and yet they're added to every day products including electronics, furniture, and baby products. The chemicals leak and persist, exposing our families, communities, and natural systems. Why were these chemicals brought into consumer products in the first place, and what's keeping them there? What are the risks of being exposed? Who may be at a disproportionate risk? What are activists doing to get the chemicals phased out and replaced? What can consumers do to protect themselves?
This webinar is part of BEN's 2012 Environmental Health Series.
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Louisiana is the world's prison capital
[05.17.12]
Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran's, seven times China's ...
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Vermont Senate bans fracking: One state down, 49 to go
[05.04.12]
ermont: Following passage of the ban by the state senate on hydrofracking, the Vermont house is set to follow suit. Vermont will then become the first state to implement a ban on fracking.
Hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking, is an ...
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