Before the latest controversy over their Planned Parenthood PR disaster, the Susan G. Komen Foundation was already mired in a long-standing battle over their continuing denial of the link between chemical exposure and breast cancer. In 2005, the foundation spent millions gutting the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act, a bill that would have awarded grant money through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences explore the connections between environmental factors and breast cancer. Komen has also been active in denying any link between the common chemical bisphenol A (BPA) and breast cancer, maybe because so many of its corporate sponsors use the stuff, including Coke and General Mills. It's one thing to be non-committal. It's another to join the chemical industry in actively shutting down research.