Everybody knows smoking is harmful to human health—smoking is linked to 400,000 deaths in the United States every year—yet tobacco products are still unregulated in America. That’s about to change. Congress ... Read More

Food-packaging and chemical-industry executives and lobbyists plan to use a pregnant woman to reassure Americans that products containing bisphenol A (BPA) are safe for both children and adults, and that ... Read More

President Barack Obama today named Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat left vacant by Justice David Souter’s upcoming ... Read More

From a human perspective, ozone is both helpful and harmful, both good and bad. In the upper atmosphere, ozone protects all life on Earth from damaging radiation. At ground level, ... Read More

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday evening passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (also known as the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill) by a largely partisan ... Read More

President Barack Obama yesterday announced aggressive new standards to increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the United States, beginning in ... Read More

Old soldiers may “just fade away,” as General Douglas MacArthur so famously declared in his farewell speech to Congress, but old ships don’t retire quite so easily. When ships reach ... Read More

Growing scientific and public concern about the potential health effects of exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)—an industrial chemical that is widely used in common plastic products and associated with higher ... Read More

Efforts to slow climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions could have the added benefit of saving millions of lives as a direct result of making the air cleaner, according ... Read More

All farming was organic for thousands of years, but then mankind discovered chemical pesticides and fertilizers and began to believe they were the secret to high crop yields and high ... Read More

Every day you hear more and more about the environmental problems mankind is facing. You wonder what you can do to help, and how you'll ever find the time. Take heart. ... Read More

Researchers have known for years that exposure to excessively-loud noise can cause changes in blood pressure as well as changes in sleep and digestive patterns -- all signs of stress ... Read More

Sunscreen has a simple job. It is supposed to make it possible for you to enjoy being outside on a sunny day without risking a painful sunburn or, worse, skin ... Read More