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Environmental Defense Fund wrote:>> Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the web version. > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=UX7HljK5nVM0 SY8a24OLhw. .>>> Environmental Defense Action Fund>> Dear bud,>> Dominique Browning > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=JJ-K4EJ4GXmB GS6n3uY92w. .>>> *Read December's Personal Nature column by Dominique Browning.* > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=RK5dmBaXBYXr wTpSn_YxLA. .>>> Out of more than 62,000 synthetic chemicals that are part of our > everyday lives, fewer than 200 have been tested for safety.>> Thanks to effective lobbying by the chemical industry, laws are > written so that every synthetic chemical is "innocent until proven > guilty." The legal burden weighs on those seeking to prove the harm a > substance can cause.>> *Find out more in this month's Personal Nature column, "Toxic > Ignorance is Not Bliss," by author and writer Dominique Browning > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=5aH7OMrX2l_ vv6G8C382rQ. .>*.>> *Human Guinea Pigs*>> Browning

reveals the shocking truth when it comes to potentially toxic > chemicals -- you're basically on your own.>> "We should be worried about what amounts to a huge, uncontrolled human > testing experiment. Without agreeing to it, without understanding it, > without even knowing it, we have become the chemical industry's guinea > pigs.">> Topic A of late is Bisphenol A (BPA), found in baby bottles, possibly > the water bottle sitting by your desk and plastic dental sealants.>> BPA is increasingly suspected of causing a variety of serious ills, > yet factories continue to produce six billion pounds of it each

year.>> In the coming months, Congress may review the process by which we > regulate toxic chemicals -- or, as Browning points out, mostly don't > regulate them.>> *This month's Personal Nature column serves as an engaging and > alarming primer* > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=W1CcDj7BhXZl NzMRyDqgmg. .>.>> Thank you for your activism and support,> Environmental Defense Fund>> P.S. You can support our work to protect human health by *making a > donation to our Health program > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=ZHvvFO- 7hLKa_UZyCo17dQ. .>*.>> <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=LJr5- xytURrQljDjHhuoq A..> Bookmark > and Share <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=hA1p8VfjW9GY tyr_W3RrwA. .> > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=K_CsGQWCfpOu zuCxXULY- Q..> >> Environmental Defense Fund> 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600> Washington, DC 20009> 1-800-684-3322>> 4 Stars from Charity Navigator > <http://support. edf.org/site/ R?i=Ds1mtJ3yb4yT u52G7ZqqEw. .>>> If you do not wish to receive these messages, change your subscription > options. > <http://support. edf.org/site/ CO?i=ceA0eEJ24O- CA9_DzWXUp- YImtU1QEwJ & cid=1301>

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