Best and Worst Seafood Choices

Good news in the list of the Best and Worst Seafood Choices: canned sardines and wild Alaskan salmon are among the best, easiest, and cheapest options.

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? has opened in theaters. More info at WhoKilledtheElectricCar.com.

Study Links Air Pollutants with Autism

From the Los Angeles Times:

Study Links Air Pollutants with Autism
Bay Area children with the disorder are 50% likelier to be from areas high in several toxic substances. Scientists say more research is needed.
By Marla Cone, Times Staff Writer
June 23, 2006
Children with autism disorders in the San Francisco Bay Area were 50% more likely to be born in neighborhoods with high amounts of several toxic air contaminants, particularly mercury, according to a first-of-its-kind study by the California Department of Health Services.
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Consumer Reports re mercury in tuna

Read about the "new safety concerns" regarding mercury in tuna in the July 2006 issue of Consumer Reports, available online at ConsumerReports.org.

PA DEP on Radio Times re mercury reduction

You can listen to the archived edition of this June 16, 2006, Radio Times interview with Marty Moss-Coane at WHYY.org, where you will see this description: "The Hon. Kathleen McGinty, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, talks about the Commonwealth's new plan for mercury reduction, clean air and clean water initiatives, and a range of issues aimed at the quality of the environment locally and nationally."

Thank you, Robert Kennedy Jr.

It would be a monumental task to list all of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s contributions to the health of our planet and its inhabitants, so this will only cover two articles in Rolling Stone:
Deadly Immunity, investigating the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal, June 20, 2005
Crimes against Nature, documenting why George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president, December 11, 2003

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth has opened in theaters.
"Intellectually exhilarating . . . could hardly be more urgent. An Inconvenient Truth is a necessary film." A. O. Scott, New York Times
"In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see An Inconvenient Truth. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to." Roger Ebert
Al Gore is back! Move aside, Hillary!

ProtectBabies.org

Urgent in PA: go to www.ProtectBabies.org