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BPA In Your Garden? Maybe, If You Use These Gardening Products

Organic Authority.com | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Bpa, Water Hoses, Organic Gardening, Water Safety, Healthy Stuff, Gardening, Water Sanitation, Dangers of Bpa, Hoses, Green News
Organic Authority.com

Wouldn't it just irk you more than a bunch of weeds to find out that the gardening products you use are dirtying up your organic garden with BPA, phthalates and lead?

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TIME Raises A Ruckus & Safer Cosmetics Makes History

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Bpa, Flame Retardants, Breast Cancer, Breastfeeding, Bill Sears, African-American Breastfeeding, Parents News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org TIME raised a ruckus recently with a profile of "...

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Lynne Peeples

Could You Blame Your Ancestors For Your Fertility Problems?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pcos, Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Epigenetics, Women's Health, Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, Dioxin, Phthalates, Green News

The environment in which your great-great-grandmother lived, breathed, ate and drank might be responsible for health problems endured by you, your chi...

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Three Shocking Ways Packaged Foods Are Contaminated

Corey Rennell | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Bpa, Healthy Food, Produce, Food Contamination, Nutrition, Gluten Free, Food Additives, Diet and Nutrition, Peanut Allergies, Food Dyes, Vitamin E, Soy, Green News
Corey Rennell

Packaged foods acquire long shelf lives when their chemical properties are manipulated so that bacteria cannot grow. While this gives a perception of safety and sterility, it actually means that ingredients of any quality can be used and the food will never go bad.

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Earth Week is for Mothers

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Earth, House of Representatives, Carcinogen, Healthy, Party, Green, Jenna Elfman, Pediatrics, Bpa, Kelly Preston, Laila Ali, Soothing, Sugar, P&G, Parents News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

Earth Week started Sunday and there's nothing more powerful than moms doing their part for the Earth.

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Lobbying Groups Fight to Stop FDA From Regulating Chemical Linked to Erectile Dysfunction and Miscarriages

Suzanne Merkelson | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Bpa, Fda, Dow Chemical, Health, Bpa Health, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Food Safety, FDA and BPA, Dangers of Bpa, Bpa Controversy, Bpa Fda, Politics News
Suzanne Merkelson

Curiously missing from the recent showering praise on the FDA are the three biggest U.S. producers of BPA: Saudi Basic Industries Corp., Bayer AG and Dow Chemical Co.

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BPA Is FDA's Latest Gift to Food Industry

Michele Simon | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Bpa, Fda, Infant Formula, Bpa Baby Bottles, Food Politics, Food and Drug Administration, Obama Administration, Bpa Ban, Food News
Michele Simon

If FDA admits the chemical is scary enough to avoid and previous independent scientific advisory panels have derided the agency for ignoring the mounting evidence, why did the agency back down yet again?

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BPA, Flame Retardants & Toxic Jewelry

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Bpa, Gmos, Autism, Fda, Strawberries, Breast Cancer Fund, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Parents News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

With so many news stories that relate to children's environmental health lately, it's hard to keep up!

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'Green News Report' - April 3, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Floods, Pesticides, Gas Prices, Chevy Volt, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Power Plants, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Rising Sea Level, 2012 Presidential Election, Heat Wave, Oil Spill, Colony Collapse Disorder, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bpa, Sewage, Energy, Bees, Ipcc, Nrdc, War, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Joe Biden, Subsidies, Steve Doocy, Barack Obama, Senate, BRAD BLOG, Water, Tipping Point, Green News, Fox News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Coal, Radiation, Usda, Fukushima, Nuclear Power, Maldives, Energy Efficiency, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Biden sla...

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Silent Spring, BPA and Toxic Health Scares: Let Science Drive Regulation, Not Fear

Jon Entine | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Nrdc, Bpa, Natural Resources Defense Council, Jon Entine, Silent Spring, Politics News
Jon Entine

The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues.

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FDA to Consumers: We're Still Thinking About It; Sorry You're Still Eating It

Gina Solomon | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Food Safety, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Food Cans, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Bpa Controversy, Bpa Announcement, Green News
Gina Solomon

FDA is kicking the BPA-lined can further down the road in an announcement last week that the Administration plans to keep studying this issue while consumers continue to be exposed.

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Kyra Sedgwick Leads Global Call to End Plastic Pollution at United Nations

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Marine Debris, Plastic Pollution, Game Changer Bucket, Aspen Institute, 5 Gyres, Jimena Leiva Roesch, Marcus Eriksen, Kyra Sedgwick, Disposable Plastic, Aspen Institute Catto Fellowship, Bpa, Plastic Waste, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Kyra Sedgwick, film actress and star of television's popular show The Closer, is using her famed communications skills to educate the public and world leaders about something that really upsets her: single-use plastics.

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Lynne Peeples

FDA Made 'Wrong Call' On BPA In Food Containers

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, FDA Ban BPA, Bpa, Toxic Chemicals and Children, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, Bpa Baby Bottles, Fda, Bpa Fda, FDA BPA, Fda Bpa Ban, Green News

"Ludicrous." "Bogus." "Illogical." Scientists and public health advocates expressed frustration on Friday as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

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Lynne Peeples

FDA Close To Critical Decision On BPA

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, BPA Children, FDA Ban BPA, US Fda Bisphenol, Bpa Food, US Fda Bpa, Bpa Plastic, Bisphenol A, Bpa Fda, Fda, Hormones, Children's Health, Bpa Ban, Green News

UPDATE: 3/30 4:00 p.m. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that it will continue to allow bisphenol-A (BPA) in food and bever...

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Are Chemicals In Common Household Products Making You Sick?

The Huffington Post | Sarah Klein | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, Video, Beauty and Skin, Asthma, Bisphenol A, What Is Bisphenol A, Bisphenol, Natural Health, Slidepollajax, Bisphenol a Bpa, Healthy Living News

What's lurking in your household products? According to a recent study of more than 200 cleaning and personal care products, troublesome estrogen-mimi...

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Toxic Chemicals in U.S. Food Packaging Must Go

Ken Cook | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, FDA Ban BPA, Bpa, Ewg, Food Safety, Fda, Bpa Ban, Food Industry, Food News
Ken Cook

A chemical that can disrupt hormone function and potentially cause cancers, diabetes, infertility and brain disorders should not be contaminating the food that millions eat every day.

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8 Simple Ways You Can Avoid Chemicals in Cans

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Campbells-Soup, Prostate Cancer, Children, Health, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Harvard, Cancer, Environmental Working Group, Allergies, Bpa Free, Bpa Bottles, Bpa Free Bottles, Plastic Bpa, Natural Health, Healthy Living News
Robyn O'Brien

Disease doesn't know party lines, and if our babies are being born pre-polluted with BPA while other countries opt out, it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you are on. Together, we can create the changes we want to see in our food system.

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End Game: The Petitions to Ban BPA

Matthew Spiegl | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Bisphenol A, Environmental Chemicals, Bpa Ban, Water Bottles, Fda, Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa Free, Food Packaging, Plastic Pollution, Bpa Exposure, Bpa, Infant Formula Packaging, Toxic Chemicals, Plastics, Bpa Controversy, Fda Controversy, Bpa Controversy Baby Bottles, Petitions, Bpa Petition, Green News
Matthew Spiegl

As scientists continue to study the effects of BPA on humans, the FDA is finding that it is the one under the microscope -- the microscope of public scrutiny, that is -- and what we are seeing is troubling.

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Our Contaminated World

David Crews | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, Bpa Plastic, Hormones, Contamination, Bpa Ban, Science News
David Crews

The FDA will soon announce whether to ban the use of bisphenol-A in food and beverage packaging. BPA is widely accepted by scientists as being an endocrine disruptor, and we support its ban because of demonstrable effects in wildlife and laboratory animals.

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Stop the Toxic Insults: They Aren't Helping

Mary Brune | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Toxic, Toxic Substances Control Act, Toxics, Toxins, Bpa, Green News
Mary Brune

Until Congress stands up to the chemical industry lobby and does the right thing by reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act, parents everywhere will continue to read books about the issues, educate themselves about safer alternatives and take action. That's not hysterical. That's heroic.

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The Chemical Marketplace: Revisiting BPA and PFOA

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Bisphenol A, Microwave Popcorn, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Pfoa, Bpa, Plastic, Food and Drug Administration, Green News
Bill Chameides

The thing that has made bisphenol A so controversial is the fact that it is used in plastic containers and plastic bottles and the linings of tin cans. But lo and behold there has been some good news on that front.

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Reduce Chemicals to Increase Fertility

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Chemical Exposure, Bpa, Teflon, Male Infertility, Infertility, Pcbs, Toxic Chemicals, Personal Health, Harmful Chemicals, Reproductive Health, Chemicals and Health, Hazardous Chemicals, Chemicals Health, Healthy Living News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

Because we now know that chemicals in every day products can lead to low sperm counts, there are simple steps that men can take to avoid them.

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Lynne Peeples

Toxic Chemical Under Attack, But Are Alternatives Any Safer?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Plastics, Endocrine Disruptors, Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Bpa-Free, Nrdc, Epa, Diabetes, Fda, Chemicals, Obesity, Fire Retardants, Environmental Chemicals, Pcbs, Green News

As evidence mounts of the dangers of bisphenol-A, there is a rising urgency to purge the common chemical from consumer products. Several states hav...

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Ending the Toxic Shell Game

Michael Green | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Toxic, Safe Chemicals Act, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Green News
Michael Green

In California we recently won a victory when BPA was banned from baby bottles and sippy cups. Even before the ban, some producers were eliminating BPA from their products. My daughter's pink sippy cup, for example, was labeled "BPA-free." So why would I still worry?

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Lynne Peeples

A Hormonal Mess: How An Everyday Chemical May Be Making Us Fat And Sick

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Bpa, Endocrine Disruptors, Obesogens, Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Bpa Baby Bottles, Diabetes, Bpa Canned Food, Obesity, Hormones, Phthalates, Overweight, Childhood Obesity, Bpa Water Bottles, Insulin, Green News

The modern lifestyle of super-sized french fries and couch potatoes often takes the blame for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes in the U.S. -- ...

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