Press Release for the 17th Heinz Awards

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Contacts: Jeff Krakoff
(412) 394-6653
Kim O’Dell
(412) 497-5775

Author and Cancer Survivor Receives Prestigious Heinz Award
Hailed as ‘the New Rachel Carson,” Dr. Sandra Steingraber Links Toxic Chemical Exposure to Diseases

PITTSBURGH, September 13, 2011 − Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation today
announced Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., an ecologist, as well as an author and advocate for the
environmental health movement, as a recipient of a $100,000 Heinz Award. Dr. Steingraber is
currently a scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y.