We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including… — 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 they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to… — 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 progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Prenatal care means taking care of water, fish, and glaciers.” — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
