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Let’s Talk Prevention: A New Discussion Tool for Health Professionals and Patients to Reduce Toxic Exposures

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  Living a healthy lifestyle through proper diet, exercise, and limiting alcohol and tobacco use is important, but these important health initiatives will not reduce the burden of environmentally linked diseases. Additional changes must be made to reduce exposure to chemicals linked with health consequences including cancer, birth defects, reproductive problems, and more. The Massachusetts … Read more

MA Legislators Fail to Support Chemical Exposure Research

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Unfortunately, Silent Spring Institute’s full funding request for $1,135,000 to expand its research on Cape Cod and in Central Massachusetts was not included in the FY 2015 House Budget that was announced on May 1st.  The funding request now moves onto the Senate for consideration in the FY 2015 Senate Budget. Senator Daniel Wolf (D-Hyannis) will sponsor and … Read more

Protect Your Family From Herbicide Spraying

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Submitted by Sue Phelan (info@GreenCAPE.org or 508.362.5927) The corporate giant NSTAR/Northeast Utilities (NU) and others such as National Grid, the railroads and MTA are all poised to spray their toxic mixtures of herbicides over residential and public properties statewide. These corporations do not own the land in most cases. They only have easements over the … Read more

What California’s New Flammability Standard Means for Massachusetts

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On February 21st, Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition attended a presentation at Harvard University by Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Initiative, Arlene Blum, PhD, to discuss the potential impact of California’s new flammability standards on Massachusetts. Our sister organization, Silent Spring Institute, helped to organize this meeting and Research Scientist Robin Dodson presented findings … Read more

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