KidSafe Seafood Highlights the "Healthiest Fish in the Sea" for Children
Parents committed to feeding their children a healthy diet now have some extra help, thanks to a new collaborative effort[…]
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Environmental Defense Welcomes EPA Announcement of Cleaner Diesel Fuel That Will Provide Healthier Air for America
Environmental Defense praised the October 10th announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that so-called "ultra low sulfur diesel fuel"[…]
Read moreEPA Policy Discouraging Advanced Coal Technologies has No Binding Legal Effect
On October 12th, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today filed a proposed settlement with Environmental Defense and several other parties[…]
Read moreMore GE Food Contamination In US And EU
Yet another strain of experimental genetically engineered (GE) rice has been detected in U.S. food shipments to Europe. This is[…]
Read moreMexico Bans GE Corn
Mexico has, once again, passed a law banning genetically engineered corn from being planted in the country. The law is[…]
Read moreSleepless Kids Become Overweight Adults
A new peer-reviewed study from Bristol University highlights an important factor in the current childhood obesity epidemic. Researchers found that[…]
Read moreIndentured Scientists Claim Excessive Salt Is Ok
The prestigious Journal of the American College of Nutrition (JACN) has published several studies claiming that excessive salt consumption is[…]
Read moreAvoid Factory Farmed Salmon
A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes a convincing case that salmon[…]
Read moreAnti-Chaining Laws Save Lives
By Emily Allen California has just become the third state in the country, after Connecticut and West Virginia, to pass[…]
Read moreGovernor Signs Historic Global Warming Law
Environmental Defense and NRDC shared the stage with the governor, the law's authors Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez (D-Los Angeles) and[…]
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