Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty

Mercury Policy Project (a project of Tides) and European Environment Bureau recently co-authored this article about MPP's grassroots efforts to promote a strong mercury treaty: "Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty."

MPP and its many allies have been working in partnership for over a decade to promote international negotiations leading to a legally binding treaty on mercury -- which now is in the works and will likely be signed in 2013. MPP...

Oil and Anguish: Alaska, Nigeria, and the Gulf Coast

Within a week of the Exxon Oil spill in 1989, currents and winds pushed the slick 90 miles from the site of the tanker, out of Prince William Sound into the Gulf of Alaska. It eventually reached nearly 600 miles away from the wreck contaminating 1,500 miles of shoreline – about the length of California's coast and was described as the "largest oil spill to date in U.S. waters." In June of 1989 I was dispatched to Cordova, Alaska in my new role as an advisor to a donor. Eleven million gallons of oil had spewed ...

The Story of Cosmetics: "N-Nitrosoethanolmaine?"

Here's a post which arrived in our inbox from the Story of Stuff Project, a project of Tides:

Remember 'Toxics In, Toxics Out'?

In The Story of Stuff, Annie explained that as long as we keep putting toxic chemicals into our production system, we'll keep bringing toxic stuff into our homes, workplaces, and schools. Which means we'll keep getting toxics in us.

We're revisiting 'Toxics In, Toxics Out' on July 21st with the release of The Story of Cosmetics, which...