By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned.… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time.… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies whose mothers… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
“birth defects, as well as congenital heart problems, were elevated in communities served by a drinking water reservoir that had been contaminated with the… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main route of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share
