Peter Montague

  • US study shows how to eliminate dioxin

    A two-year study of dioxin in the US Great Lakes has concluded that 86% of dioxin sources could be eliminated without economic sacrifice, and possibly with economic gains. The study was conducted by a team of researchers at

  • The good news industry

    For the past 25 years, bad news has been reported again and again by the scientific community worldwide. Ozone depletion. Global warming. Certain cancers increasing. Dioxin and PCBs from industrial sources now found everywhere,

  • Bill Gaffey's work

    Bill Gaffey's work is finished. He died suddenly of a heart attack at age 71 on October 6, 1995, in St Louis. As a result, his libel lawsuit against Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly, and its editor, Peter Montague, has been

  • Illegal poisons in US food

    There are about 630 different "active ingredients" in pesticides worldwide. In real-world use, these main ingredients are combined with other chemicals (called "inert ingredients") to make several thousand toxic formulations —

  • How chemical industry plans to defend chlorine

    In late 1993 the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association unanimously approved Policy Statement 9304, urging US industry to stop using the chemical chlorine. APHA is a professional society, founded in 1872,

  • Dangers of chemical combinations

    The chemical industry received some extraordinarily bad news in early June. Science magazine published a new study showing that some combinations of hormone-disrupting chemicals are much more powerful than any of the individual

  • When flying blind, it's best to fly slower

    For most of history, humans were so puny, compared to the rest of nature, that the speed of technological change didn't matter. But since 1945, humans have become a major force that nature must reckon with. Human activities now

  • * Banana laws and potato heads

    The US food industry went ballistic in January when Food & Water, Inc, a grassroots advocacy group in Walden, Vermont, and Environmental Research Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, published an ad in Supermarket News comparing

  • New evidence on dioxin's health effects

    New evidence of dioxin's ability to cause cancer in humans has come to light just as environmental justice activists across the US are planning a major campaign to attack dioxin at its sources.

  • *Concern at worldwide fall in sperm counts

    Concern at worldwide fall in sperm countsThe New Yorker magazine ran a long story on January 15 called "Silent Sperm" — a wry reference to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which made its debut in the New Yorker 35 years

  • Our future in doubt

    After 30 years of scientific detective work, a picture has emerged strongly suggesting that US-style industrialisation is in fundamental conflict with living systems. Many common chemicals used in bulk quantities are now

  • The challenge of our age

    Two important British scientific journals have published editorials calling for more research into environmental chemicals that may be harming the reproductive health and sexual development of men throughout the