Poisoning Our Children

I am elated to share with you the official cover for Poisoning Our Children.

Are you creating a species to replace our own, then, oh mighty AI Overlords?

I remember the day, not long after the tragedy of 9/11, that the head of the EPA told New Yorkers that they didn’t have to worry about the toxic contamination from two modern skyscrapers burning and collapsing in the middle of an enormous city where rescue

I have known Dr.

Poisoning Our Children draws on nearly a half million words of interviews with experts, advocates, and families.

Despite the sky-high baseline rates of cancer everywhere, particularly in the United States, where there is virtually no regulation of environmental chemicals, Iowa’s rates are truly startling and have started to attract attention.

Poisoning Our Children draws on nearly a half million words of interviews with experts, advocates, and families.

Poisoning Our Children draws on nearly a half million words of interviews with experts, advocates, and families.

We never would have thought anyone could be so stupid or cruel as to spray our children with a toxic pesticide without our knowledge or consent....

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I am reading and re-reading the manuscript during copyediting and proofing.

Twenty-Eight Years ago today, my world collapsed when my daughter Katherine was diagnosed with leukemia.

A reporter at E&E News at Politico, Ellie Borst, wonders what is happening with the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) to the EPA, on which I have been honored to serve over the last three years.

Our exposure to plastics and the resulting health impacts have been getting much-deserved attention lately.

This issue is personal.

How painful it is to write these words.

I just got off a Zoom call with my editor Robin Coleman at Johns Hopkins UP.

Some have asked me if I am happy that Poisoning Our Children is being published by my first-choice publisher in the whole world – Johns Hopkins University Press, the university that was my furthest dream for medical school.

As I take a breath this summer, I have been thinking a lot about Ayana Elizabeth’s Johnson’s What If We Get It Right?

Read the 2024 ECHO Team’s New Publication at https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s13412-026-01116-w?

I was volunteering at Habitat for Humanity in Michigan with my Scholars last week, when I was asked to submit comments to UNHRC’s Advisory Committee on the Human Rights implications of plastic pollution.

A quiet young woman, curly dark hair parted in the middle and pulled back in a bun, sat in the corner of the classroom with her book in front of her and said almost nothing the entire semester.

Soon enough, early 2027, my book will be out, and a very careful reader might notice that the last added, most recent citation in my book is an article with a daring title published by an audacious organization in one of the very top journals in the world.