Samuel Epstein, "Breast Cancer Unawareness Month: Rethinking Mammograms"

In 1984, the American Cancer Society (ACS), the world's largest nonprofit organization, inaugurated the October National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), with its flagship National Mammography Day. The NBCAM was conceived and funded by the Imperial Chemical Industries, a leading international manufacturer of petrochemicals, and its U.S. subsidiary Zeneca Pharmaceuticals.... Read more.

Sandra Steingraber, "The Hope Inside Canada's Garbage Cans", Living Downstream (May 26, 2010)

In Canada, redefining the word trash may send engineers back to their drawing boards—and keep dioxins out of the food chain. Read more.

Sandra Steingraber, "Canadian Bylaws; American Lawn Flags", Living Downstream, (May 11, 2010)

The smell of lawn chemicals is as dependable a harbinger of spring as robins and lilacs. Not in big parts of Canada, where many municipalities and provinces have opted to abolish the cosmetic use of pesticides on the grounds that the links between pesticide exposure and childhood cancer are too troubling to ignore. So, how come we’re still using them? Read more.

Sandra Steingraber, "Escape from the Heartland—Atrazine, Susan G. Komen, and KFC", Living Downstream (May 6, 2010)

The pesticide atrazine—with its possible links to breast cancer—is making headlines as the EPA opens a new investigation and a member of Congress calls for its outright abolition. What does the leading breast cancer advocacy organization say about atrazine? Nothing. It’s busy peddling pink buckets of deep-fried chicken breasts. Really. Read more.

Sandra Steingraber, "Release the Day—My Secret Desire to Waste Time, Investigate the Past, and Imagine the Future", Living Downstream, (April 28, 2010)

Living each day as if it were your last is not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, discounting the future and ignoring the past is how we’ve contaminated the earth with toxic chemicals in the first place. Read more.