Ken Cook, president of the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, will present a free public talk on the growing problem of industrial chemicals found in the cord blood of newborns and the imperative to make children's health a top priority, on Tuesday, April 6, at Duke University.
Cook's talk, "10 Americans: ‘An Inconvenient Truth' for Toxics and Health," begins at 6 p.m. in Love Auditorium at the Levine Science Research Center on Duke's West Campus. Free parking is available in the nearby Upper LaSalle Lot.
The event is free, but advance registration is required to reserve seats at www.nicholas.duke.edu/cook.
Cook co-founded Environmental Working Group in 1993. He is the author of dozens of articles, opinion pieces and reports on environmental, public health and agricultural topics. Environmental Working Group, based in Washington, D.C., works to protect public health and the environment by providing useful consumer education resources, such as the "Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce," while advocating for changes in national policies regulating environmental and human health.
Bill Ross, visiting scholar at Duke and former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, is organizing the event.
The talk is co-sponsored by the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Nicholas School of the Environment.