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Environment Panel | Sierra Club Trans-Atlantic Trade Symposium

Environment Panel Carroll Muffett, Center for International Law (moderator) Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club (investor-state, energy & climate) William Waren, Friends of the Earth U.S. (downward harmonization)

Food Panel | Sierra Club Trans-Atlantic Trade Symposium

Food Panel Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition (moderator) Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumer Association (GMOs) Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Institute for Trade & Agriculture Policy (emerging technologies)

The obesity epidemic: What do chemicals have to do with it?

We are all hearing a lot about obesity these days and more people are obese than ever; one-third of American children and two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. The American Medical Association has declared that obesity is a disease.

Chemicals and Obesity

While diet and exercise are important factors in the obesity epidemic, an emerging body of science demonstrates that exposures to chemical obesogens may be important contributors. A number of chemicals known to disrupt hormones also appear to affect the size and number of fat cells or hormones that regulate appetite and metabolism. 

Experts Discuss Implications on Environment, Labor, Consumer Rights, and Food Policy

July 8, 2013: Experts Discuss Implications on Environment, Labor, Consumer Rights, and Food Policy. Sierra Club telepresser on launch of U.S.-EU trade negotiations (TTIP). Speakers: Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club Lori Wallach, Public Citizen Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO Karen Hansen-Kuhn, IATP

Letter to President Barack Obama, President Juan Manuel Barroso and President Herman Van Rompuy regarding the TTIP

July 8, 2013 Dear President Barack Obama, President Juan Manuel Barroso, and President Herman Van Rompuy:

Trade Secrets – Draft EU documents reveal trade agenda with U.S.

Transparency and trade negotiations don’t seem to go together these days. Recent revelations in Spiegel disclosed that the U.S.

European Commission's initial position papers on TTIP

Initial position papers on: Regulatory Issues - Cross-Cutting Disciplines and Institutional Provisions; Technical Barriers to Trade; Regulatory Cluster: automotive sector, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; Sanitary and Phytosanitary issues (SPS); Trade and Sustainable Development; Anti-Trust & Mergers, Government Influence and Subsidies; Trade and Investment in Raw Materials and Energy.

Civil Society Symposium on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

July 9th, 2013

NOTE: TIMES ARE LISTED IN EASTERN (EDT) RSVP and receive the webcast link or RSVP to attend in person Please join us for a live webcast of the civil society symposium on the Trans Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TAFTA threatens to build on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and similar trade deals focused on removing “trade irritants” like food safety standards and environmental protections without regard the costs to public health, local food syst

Trade deal to undermine health, environmental standards

Closed-door trade negotiations on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), set to begin July 8, could significantly lower health and environmental protections as EU and U.S. negotiators work to “harmonize” standards as part of the agreement. A group of 34 family farm, consumer, faith, public health, development and environment organizations from the U.S.