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New scientific evidence from the fields of toxicology, endocrinology, developmental biology and biochemistry shows that a core assumption of toxicology, “the dose makes the poison,” is inadequate as a basis for regulatory standards to protect human health. Evidence shows that pesticides have interactive effects and adverse health effects at extremely low levels–below EPA allowable levels.…

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…

Chemicals that mimic hormones and interfere with fertility, reproduction and development of the brain are found in many common consumer products and the environment. CHE-Alaska hosted a discussion of the latest science on everyday exposures to toxic chemicals linked to adverse human health effects and the need for chemicals policy reform at the state and…

Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) sponsors monthly statewide teleconference seminars as part of our Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE-AK). On February 4, Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), Commonweal and the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) released the first-ever biomonitoring report identifying toxic chemical pollution in people from the learning…