Stories by Brad Jacobson

Brad Jacobson is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist and contributing reporter for AlterNet. His reporting has also appeared in the Atlantic, Salon, OnEarth Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Billboard and other publications. Follow him on Twitter @bradpjacobson. subscribe to Brad Jacobson's feed

Posted on: Jun 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A leading expert on health effects from cellphone radiation goes to battle against a multi-trillion-dollar industry.

Posted on: Apr 23, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports.

Posted on: Mar 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

New research shows that putting too much of our eggs into this energy basket could be detrimental to our future economic health.

Posted on: Feb 11, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Right-wing groups are doing everyone a disservice by bashing renewables, but GOP strongholds may have the most to lose.

Posted on: Nov 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Romney's plan is a prescription for boosting insurance industry profits at the expense of the public's well-being.

Posted on: Jul 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

A new book reveals the truth about a plutonium factory that hardly anyone knew existed.

Posted on: May 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S.

Posted on: Mar 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet

As the drumbeats for war with Iran reach bellicose heights, a new book argues that waging war is not an innate part of our nature.

Posted on: Jan 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Why ask the most famous unhealthy cook in America to promote a diabetes drug before anyone knew she suffered from diabetes?

Posted on: Dec 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet

FDA not only downplayed the risk of contamination, but ignored staff members who proposed higher levels of contamination protection.

Posted on: Nov 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet

A medical ethicist explains the dark implications of corporate medical patents and the nightmarish scenario of our medical-industrial complex.

Posted on: May 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet

A year later there is widespread complaints of nosebleeds, GI pain, memory loss, persistent coughing, skin lesions and other serious conditions. But where's the help?

Posted on: Apr 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The Obama administration has these important numbers -- it's just not telling us. Here's why.

Posted on: Feb 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Josh Fox talks about why the gas industry is losing control of the message and how it has underestimated the power of citizens affected by gas drilling.

Posted on: Nov 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Severe headaches, nausea, respiratory problems, burning eyes and throat, earache and chest pains -- and that's just the beginning.

Posted on: Oct 7, 2010, Source: Raw Story

Outside scientists, eager to perform independent evaluations of the government's findings, complain the information released contains far too many unknown variables.

Posted on: Feb 5, 2010, Source: Raw Story

Gaping legal holes allow corporations to spend enormous sums on politics without leaving a paper trail.

Posted on: Dec 16, 2009, Source: Raw Story

Death toll estimate exceeds the total number of Americans who died in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the attacks of 9/11 combined.