Archive for May 2010

In the 1940s, a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer was one in 22. Today, it is one in 7. Many people diagnosed with breast cancer do not fit into a high-risk profile based on the known breast cancer risk factors. This means other factors—perhaps environmental—are at work. Mounting scientific evidence from laboratory and limited…

Coal exploration and proposed development throughout Alaska threaten human health with potential hazardous emissions. At every stage—from mining, transportation, washing, combustion and disposal of post-combustion wastes—coal development is a threat to human and environmental health. Pollutants from coal adversely affect all major organ systems in the human body and contribute to four of the top…