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By Guest Writer, Michelle Noehren. This post originally appeared on S afeHealthyCt.org I remember very clearly the day I first learned that the vast majority of chemicals used in consumer products are unregulated by the government. Until that point I believed (as many people mistakenly do) that if I could buy it in a store it must have passed safety testing. Boy was I wrong. Out of the nearly 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce, less that 5% have ever undergone testing. Needless to say, that very day I cleared out my shampoo, body lotion and makeup for safer alternatives I found using the

By Andrew Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director Today, as we are observing the two-year anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, we get great news on the energy front in Maryland! Today the Nuclear Regulatory Commission refused to review UniStar Nuclear Energy LLC’s permit for expanding the nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs, which had been denied by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Last week, the State Senate advanced a bill to support offshore wind in Maryland. This is a huge week for clean energy! Maryland is moving away from nuclear and towards

By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This piece originally appeared on Huffington Post Over the past few weeks, Colorado's Governor John Hickenlooper has gotten a lot of negative attention. First, for telling a U.S. Senate committee that he drank Halliburton's frack fluid; second, for threatening to sue the City of Fort Collins for its ban on fracking. But Hickenlooper isn't the only government official trying to frack Colorado. Helen Hankins, who directs the Colorado office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has also been in the very-uncomfortable glare of public fracking