Frances Beinecke

Frances Beinecke is the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental organization. She is also the author of Clean Energy Common Sense and recently served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

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The Failure of the FDA: Why We're Still Using Antibiotics on Livestock

The Failure of the FDA: Why We're Still Using Antibiotics on Livestock

Instead of making good on its 1977 promise to limit the use of drugs as growth promoters in animals, the FDA is going in the other direction. More »

The Rise of 'Superbugs': Time to End a Decades-Long Problem

The Rise of 'Superbugs': Time to End a Decades-Long Problem

We've known since the mid-'70s that feeding animals antibiotics is dangerous—but we haven't changed our ways More »

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