Rachel Cernansky
Rachel is a freelance journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She primarily focuses on green business for TreeHugger, and writes for other outlets about environmental justice and politics, sustainable food and nutrition, and human rights issues. She hates greenwashing and writes about that too. Before Colorado, she lived in New York, Kenya, and Rwanda, and has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She gets around by bike, eats plants, and occasionally tweets at the address below.
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Never Mind the BPA in Water Bottles: Your Kids Might Be Drinking Arsenic in Their Apple Juice
You'd think the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would have established limits on things like arsenic and heavy metals in our food supply by now. There are limits for certain specified foods, but most items fall through the
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Do Your Grocery Shopping With a Cart Instead of a Basket: You'll Make Healthier Choices
That's right, according to a recent study, if you stroll the aisles of a supermarket with a shopping cart instead of a basket, you're likely to make healthier choices. Published in the Journal of Marketing Research, the study
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Cargill Sets Sustainable Goals for Palm Oil, But Are They Too Little, Too Late?
Agribusiness giant Cargill has announced plans to offer only sustainably-certified palm oil by 2015 for certain countries, including the U.S., and by 2020 worldwide. On the surface, that sounds like a positive step forward,
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Meat Eater's Guide: Get to Know the Carbon Footprint of Your Diet (Lamb, Beef, Cheese Are the Worst)
It's not news that meat and dairy are among the largest contributors to the world's growing carbon footprint, but lamb, beef, cheese, pork, and farmed salmon in particular generate the most greenhouse gases—sometimes
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Nike, Adidas, Puma, H&M; and Others Found Discharging Toxic Chemicals Into Chinese Rivers
After a year-long investigation of China's giant textile industry, Greenpeace has found that hormone-disrupting chemicals and other toxins are being discharged into the country's major water systems from major plants that
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After Lifting Fracking Moratorium, Will NY Gov. Cuomo Explain Girlfriend's Ties to Petroleum Industry?
Barely two weeks after New York Governor Cuomo announced an end to the moratorium on fracking in the state, reports are coming out about his live-in girlfriend having potential ties to the petroleum industry—but
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Gets Paid, Big Coal Gets to Pollute
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hear two bills this week, the TRAIN Act, which just promotes the false notion that environmental regulation is costly and bad for jobs, and a second bill that would limit federal
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Adapting to Climate Change: Salt-Tolerant Biofuel Crops Could Turn Saline Soil Back Into Cultivable Land
As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to
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(Another) Power Station Shut Down By (More) Jellyfish
It's getting to be a recurring problem: jellyfish clogging the water flow that power plants need in order to run. In Scotland less than two weeks ago, they impacted the water intake for cooling at the Torness nuclear
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Volvo Meets DOE 10-Year Energy Intensity Reduction Target in One Year
Volvo Trucks' manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia has achieved a 30-percent reduction in energy intensity in just one year, making it the first company to meet a 10-year challenge established by the Department of Energy, the
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Building More Roads Leads to More Traffic
Here at TreeHugger, we talk quite a bit about the causes and problems with roads and traffic, and we've seen how effective congestion pricing can be. Here's one more study showing that more roads are not the answer to our
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Vacuum Cleaner Made From Its Own Cardboard Packaging
One of the biggest floor-care brands in Britain has unveiled a cardboard vacuum cleaner made from its own packaging, the Vax ev. And it was created by a student.Open and Assemble—Without the Packaging Waste The vacuum is sold in a
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Groundbreaking: Egg Industry Backs Federal Regulation for Hen Welfare
Animal welfare groups are celebrating an announcement from the industry group United Egg Producers that it will support the first-ever federal legislation to improve conditions for all egg-laying hens in the country.
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Fracking Wastewater Poisonous To Plants & Trees: US Forest Service
As if there aren't enough problems with fracking already: a U.S. Forest Service researcher has found that wastewater from fracking in a West Virginia forest wiped out ground plants, killed more than half the trees in
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National Parks Policy: Obama Vs. Bush
There are a lot of things about environmental policy from the Bush era that we'd like to see reversed, but one thing he may have done better than Obama is preserve, or at least not destroy, national parks, according
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UK Billionaire Pushes Arctic "Mega" Mine: Caribou, Whale & Seal Deaths Expected, "Habitat Will Be Lost"
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, is pushing to open an opencast iron ore "mega-mine" inside the Arctic Circle that will include a 150-kilometer railway and two new ports that will bring a ship in every 32
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"Anonymous" Hackers Target Websites of Orlando, City That Arrests People for Feeding Homeless
In case you missed the news that's been unraveling over the last month, the city of Orlando has arrested more than 20 Food Not Bombs activists for feeding people in public without a permit.
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This Year, Vegan* Cyclist Will Race the Tour de France
That's right, the race that can burn 8,000 calories a day will this year be faced by a man consuming no meat, eggs or dairy. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, American cyclist David Zabriskie will be "riding the Tour
