...And 'Environmental Justice' For All?
By Dr. Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 1, 1997
On February 11, 1994, President Clinton issued an executive order titled "Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority and Low Income Populations." The administration therewith announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal programs would begin "identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects...on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States."   Read Full >>

ABC Employees Still Smoking at Peter Jennings Way
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Just a year after Peter Jennings' death, a cloud of smoke hangs over ABC. Literally. Jennings passing away from lung cancer was tragic, and it is tragic that even that stark example of the dangers of smoking -- and the renaming of the stretch of the street in Manhattan where ABC News's headquarters resides after the late newsman -- is not enough to dissuade current smokers at ABC from continuing the addictive and deadly habit...  Read Full >>

ABC's Autism Outrage (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008
By Jeff Stier. ABC tonight will include an extraordinary disclaimer on the first episode of its new series Eli Stone...  Read Full >>

The ABCs of "Good Science" — and a Book that Deserves an "F"
By Dr. Dade W. Moeller
Publish Date: Wednesday, January 1, 1997
Some "experts" are blaming an array of environmental substances for numerous diseases and planetwide phenomena. In The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors (1996), for example, Jay M. Gould, Ph.D., claims that releases of radioactive materials from nuclear power plants have had serious, wide-ranging adverse effects.   Read Full >>

ACSH Advice: Do Not Worry About Health Risks from Baby Powder, Lotion, and Shampoo
Publish Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008
An article in the current issue of the medical journal Pediatrics claims that baby lotions, powders, and shampoo contain a chemical known as phthalates, which are absorbed by babies through their skin, leaving them at risk of disease and disabilities...  Read Full >>

ACSH Applauds FDA for Taking a Stand Based on Science
Publish Date: Monday, July 24, 2006
The Senate is currently considering legislation which would prohibit the FDA from including on FDA scientific advisory boards scientists "with industry ties" to drug manufacturers (The House already approved this legislation). Today, FDA's Dr. Scott Gottlieb emphatically opposed this proposed legislation, declaring that it would deprive FDA of advice from the best and brightest scientists in America.  Read Full >>

ACSH Applauds MN's Gov. Pawlenty for Resisting Chemical Ban
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
The American Council on Science and Health sent the following letter to Minnesota's Gov. Pawlenty after reading about his veto of a bill banning two chemicals...  Read Full >>

ACSH challenges animal tests as cancer indicator in humans (from Chemical News & Intelligence)
By Brian Ford
Publish Date: Sunday, April 3, 2005
Don't trust laboratory rats when it comes to chemical and food health safety. That's one of the messages of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a group that combats what it perceives as unnecessary public hysteria over whether certain chemicals, food additives and other substances can cause cancer in humans...  Read Full >>

ACSH Commentary on "Our Stolen Future"
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., William M. London, Ed.D., M.P.H., and Leonard T. Flynn, Ph.D.
Publish Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2006
The following is a review, written in 1996, of: Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers with a foreword by Vice President Albert Gore, published by: the Penguin Group (New York: first printing, March 1996). See also ACSH's tenth-anniversary, 2006 update about the book by William London...  Read Full >>

ACSH Debunks Internet Health Hoax
By Alicia Lukachko, M.P.H.
Publish Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999
Health scare artists have found a whole new medium for terrorizing the public - the Internet. Individuals in search of accurate health information may literally become caught in the Web, where health hoaxes and urban medical myths run rampant. The health scare messages are always the same - whatever it is, it will make you sick.   Read Full >>