Silent Spring Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to studying and reporting primarily on breast cancer prevention, although its research covers other health-related topics as well.
[2] In 2014 the Cape Cod Times recalled that:[2] From the start, Silent Spring Institute researchers were interested in whether environmental toxins were having a particular influence on the Cape's drinking water, which is served by a sole source aquifer and leaches through sandy soil that in theory allows wastewater – and contaminants – to drain into the water supply more quickly than through other types of soil.
Silent Spring researchers have tested water in public and private wells for the presence of chemicals known as emerging contaminants and have visited scores of Cape homes to measure for the presence of hormone-disrupting chemicals.Based in Newton, Massachusetts, the institute was named in honor of environmentalist Rachel Carson, who died of breast cancer.
[8] The papers of Silent Spring Institute from 1988 to 2006 are archived at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, which has prepared a detailed finding aid.
It can contain mammary carcinogens, such disinfection by-products or solvents.The organization celebrated its twentieth anniversary on October 20, 2014, with a fund-raising dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Speakers included New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof, author Florence Williams and institute director Julia Brody.
Speaking about the falloff in appropriations, Representative Randy Hunt of Sandwich said, according to the Cape Cod Times, that "some people associated with Silent Spring have raised hackles."