Archive for September 2016
Final Report from Rome: U.N. Committee Says Global Action Warranted on Teflon Chemical and Three Others That Affect The Arctic
Industry influence in carving out exceptions “troubling” At the end of a long week of meetings of the U.N.’s POPs scientific review committee in Rome, Pam Miller reports : “We’re tired but happy. Global bans for PFOS, Deca,SCCPs & Dicofol are on the horizon.” However, industry influence on committee members and government representatives was troubling, allowing…
Read MoreDay 3 – Good News from Rome!
Good news from Rome! The POPs Review Committee determined the pesticide dicofol “as a result of its long-range environmental transport is likely to lead to significant adverse environmental effects and may lead to significant adverse human health effects, such that global action is warranted.” Pam Miller, ACAT’s executive director and Co-Chair of IPEN, applauded the…
Read MoreDay Two in Rome: Countering lies and duplicity with science
One of the major themes of our interventions at this POPRC meeting concern the lies and duplicity of the chemical industry in their attempts to defend the continuing use of their products, despite overwhelming evidence of the harm that the substances wreak on the global environment and human health. The…
Read MoreWill the New Federal Chemicals Policy Adequately Protect Public Health? Understanding the Strengths, Limitations, and Implications of the Lautenberg Act
President Obama signed the Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law in June 2016, the first major overhaul of federal chemicals policy since the Toxic Substances Control Act was enacted in 1976. The new law gives EPA important new powers to require chemical testing and to regulate chemicals based on health and…
Read MoreHIRING NOW! Phone Canvassers Needed
If you like talking with people and you want to change the world , we’ve got a job for you! ACAT is looking for the right people for our team of phone canvassers. The canvass runs from October 20 through November 6. If you want to join ACAT’s team, please follow the link to find…
Read MoreACAT In Rome To Move Three Toxic Chemicals Toward Ultimate Oblivion
Executive Director/Scientist Pam Miller urges United Nations advisory group to recommend global ban on dicofol, PFOA, and deca-BDE (Rome, Italy) The scientific review committee of the Stockholm Convention (POPs Review Committee or POPRC) began its work today in Rome. The Committee began its consideration of two of the chemicals nominated for global bans – the…
Read MoreStudies Show Excessive Cell Phone and Wifi Use Cause Brain Cancer
That’s just one of the environmental health hazards discussed on the September 9 edition of Alaska Public Radio’s “Line One – Your Health Connection.” Guest speakers were ACAT Executive Director Pam Miller and Dr. David Carpenter, an environmental health professor at New York University at Albany (and a long-time ACAT research collaborator). Miller and Carpenter…
Read MoreRegister today for the 2016 Children’s Environmental Health Summit!
October 5 & 6, 2016 at Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage The purpose of this summit is to bring together scientists, Alaska Native community and Tribal leaders, health care professionals, policy makers, parents, teachers, and children’s advocates to discuss the latest science and develop recommendations to protect the health of children at the top of the world.…
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