Earlier this week the Federal Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee (IBCERCC) released a monumental report “Breast Cancer and the Environment: Prioritizing Prevention.” The Massachusetts Breast Cancer (MBCC) is ecstatic that breast cancer prevention and environmental links to the disease are gaining attention from the federal government. We want you to share in … Read more
NY Times Op-Ed Contributor, Florence Williams, writes about participating in the pilot study of Silent Spring Institute’s dietary intervention research in an article titled “Eat Like a Mennonite”. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Flame retardants sound like a good idea to prevent our couches and computers and carpets from combusting. Yet these chemicals also accumulate and linger in our homes, sometimes winding up in household dust at levels of health concern. That was one of the central findings of a recent Silent Spring Institute study, the first to … Read more
Jennifer Sass at the Natural Resources Defense Council wrote a blog post emphasizing the need to prevent exposure to cancer-causing chemicals in our environment. CLICK HERE TO READ THE BLOG POST
Water Concerns Go Beyond Nitrates by Laurel Schaider, Silent Spring Institute research scientist A recent environmental summit organized by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod concluded that nutrient pollution is the most important environmental issue on Cape Cod. The problems caused by nutrients in Cape groundwater are apparent. Nutrients, especially nitrate, are causing excessive growth … Read more
