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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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'Green News Report' - February 21, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Rick Santorum, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Republicans, Iran, Dioxin, Peter Gleick, Drought, Dow Chemical, Israel, Toxic Water, Wisconsin, Solar Energy; Subsidies, Heartland Institute, Water Pollution, Mining, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Green News

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'Green News Report' - January 10, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Nigeria, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Green News Report, Dioxin, Pollution, Coal, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Insurance, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Maple Syrup, Environmentalism, State Department, New York, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Video, Grand Canyon, Conservation, Colorado, Tar Sands, Drought, Ken Salazar, Overfishing, Ohio, Rick Santorum, Big Ag, New Hampshire Primary, Mining, Fish, Uranium, Alaska, Green News

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Food Lobby Says EPA's Dioxin Limits Will "Scare the Crap Out of People"

Michele Simon | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Food Policy, Food, Dioxin, Food Lobbyists, Lobbying, Food News

It doesn't take much for a food industry freak-out over potential government action, but this latest corporate outcry is especially galling and self-serving.

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'Green News Report' - January 5, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Antarctica, Fracking, Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Dioxin, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Chevron Ecuador, Coal, Sharks, Offshore Drilling, Antibiotic Resistance, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Insurance, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Superbugs, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chevron, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Maple Syrup, Factory Farming, Nuclear Power, Brazil, Ecuador, Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalism, Subsidies, New York, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Video, Green News

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The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Clean Air Act (1990), Lead, Tsca, Nitrosating Compounds, Lead-Based Paint, Pcbs, Ozone-Depleting Substances, Dioxin, Asbestos, Chemicals, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Disease, Health, Fully Halogenated Chlorofluoralkanes, Erin Brockovich, Hazardous Waste, Hexavalent Chromium, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Cancer, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Chromium, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.

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An EPA Potboiler: Clean Air Retreat?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Economics, Regulation, Dioxin, Pollution, Clean Air Act, Arsenic, Soot, Fossil Fuels, U.S. Congress, Health, Boilers, Mercury, Particulate Matter, Air Pollution, Pollutantsmajor Source, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

The EPA has been under concerted attack by members of the new Congress. Makes me wonder: are EPA's new, weakened rules on hazardous air pollutants intended as a peace offering -- or white flag -- to their opponents?

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Recommended Continental Breakfast: Eggs Over Easy, Hold the Dioxin

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

The FDA doesn't recommend avoiding any particular food to limit dioxin exposure other than its generally recommended diet. Of course there's the option of going vegan, the diet found to have the lowest exposure to dioxins.

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Green News Report: January 11, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Cap and Trade, Glaciers, Epa, Regulation, Pipelines, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Infrastructure, Rising Sea Level, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, White House Oil Spill Commission, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Oil, Fox News, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Population, Co2, Carbon Capture and Storage, Central Intelligence Agency, Flouride, Factory Farms, Dioxin, Weed Killer, Water Contamination, Atrazine, Haiti Earthquake, Cleanl Energy, National Security, Germany, Egg Recall, Contamination, Financial Crisis, Tom Donohue, Solar Power, Biofuels, Darrell Issa, Four Loko, Cia, International Space Station, Gabrielle Giffords, Chamber of Commerce, Alaska, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Green News

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Germany Halts Poultry, Pork, Egg Sales In Carcinogen Scare

AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germany Dioxin, Food Poisoning, Germany, Dioxin Cancer, Germany Halts Poultry Sale, Dioxin Carcinogen, Germany Dioxin Scare, Dioxin, World News

BERLIN — Germany froze sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,700 farms Friday to stem the spread of food contaminated with cancer-cau...

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A Convenient Enemy

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas, Cap and Trade Legislation, Rep. Fred Upton, Bp, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dioxin, Capitalism, Epa, Corporate Welfare, Rep. Joe Barton, Public Lands, Dow Chemical, Rep. Dave Camp, Free Market, Republicans, Lisa Jackson, Socialism, Green News

It's all very black and white: EPA bad, industrial America good. Economy vs. the environment. Capitalism vs. socialism. Or, maybe, in the mind of Joe Barton, the "legitimately wrong" vs. the illegitimately right.

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Setting the Record Straight on Dioxin

Gary Williams, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dioxins, Dioxin, Green News

The United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world, and the current amount of dioxin we are being exposed to through food is so low that it does not pose a health risk.

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PHOTOS: How To Green Your Period

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Living, Diy Green, Green Diy, Menstruation, Tampons, Trash, Dioxin, Vagina, Women, Environment, Period, Green Period, Slidepollajax, Sponge Tampon, Natracare, Seventh Generation, Organic Cotton Tampon, Menstrual Cups, Green News

Greening your period is a simple, eco-friendly and fun way to make an impact. In one lifetime, it is estimated that one woman can use as many as 16,80...

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The Last Ghost of War

Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Lawyers Guild, Dioxin, Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow, Vietnam War, Veterans, Politics News

By Azadeh Shahshahani and John Zientowski Today marks the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. For millions of Vietnamese and hundreds of...

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Make Her Vagina Green

Deanna Neil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Menstruation, Earth Day, Green, Dioxin, Green Living, Tampons, Environment, Trash, Vagina, Green News

The average maxi-pad or tampon is chlorine bleached, which releases toxins into the environment when made, and could also leaves residuals in your or your loved ones vagina.

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Natural Burial Is a Gentler Way to Leave

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Organic Shrouds, Natural Burial Grounds, Casket, Pine Casket, San Jose, Cemetery, Seminars, Eco-Friendly, Nitrogen Oxide, Dioxin, Embalming, Green Burial Council, Funeral, Willow Casket, Embalming Fluid, Environmental, Environmentally-Friendly Caskets Final Footprint, Coffin, Philip Donald Batchelder, Environmentally Friendly Coffins, Mercury Pollution, Batchelder, Urn, Crematory Mercury, Climate Change, Sulphur Dioxide, Environmental Law, Natural Burial, Funeral Rule, Cremation, Eco-Friendly Coffins, Denver, Hospice, Green Burial, Funeral Consumer Alliance, Funeral Industry, Biodegradable Coffins, Bloomington, Carbon Dioxide, Half Moon Bay, Pre-Posthumous Society, Fair Wage, Land Trusts, Death, Green America, Sustainable, Mary Woodson, Biodegradable Caskets, FTC Funeral Rule, Palliative Care, Caffe Lucca, Environmentally-Friendly, Burial Vaults, Willow, Acid Rain, Montara, Jane Hillhouse, Continuing Education, Eco-Friendly Caskets, Ecoffins, Biodegradable, Fair Trade, Raleigh, Healthy Living News

Commercial funeral practices put gallons of embalming fluid, and tons of metal and exotic hardwoods into the ground. And I was surprised to learn that cremation is equally polluting and energy-intensive.

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The Chemical Marketplace: Triclosan

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

I was reading my toothpaste tube the other day, and noticed something I hadn't expected in the list of "active ingredients:" the antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal chemical triclosan.

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The Hope Inside Canada's Garbage Cans

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Incinerator, Living Downstream, Extended Producer Responsibility, Health, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Trash, Canada, Dioxin, Environment Canada, Garbage, Breast Cancer, Persistent Organic Pollutant, Food, Green News

The Canadian government hopes to do away with trash altogether by making manufacturers responsible for products throughout their life cycle. Already, it's impressively far down the road.

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Green News Report -- May 20, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Anti-Bacterial, Congress, Desalination, Oil Sands, Washington Times, Tulane University, Epa, Dioxin, Coast Guard, Green News Report, Coal, Clean Air Act, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic, Tar Sands, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Minerals Management Service, Big Oil, Green News, Oil, Dispersants, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, BP Oil Spill, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Auto Industry, Global Warming, Video, Green News

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Chemicals In Everyday Products Turning Boys Into Girls?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Toys, Pesticides, Sunscreen, Parabens, Boys, Dioxin, Defra, Healthy Child Healthy World, Toxins, Girls, Toxic Chemicals, Stainless Steel, Organic Food, Plastic, Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals, Cancer, Phthalates, Health, Healthy Living News

A new report from the Danish Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), highlights the critical risks facing toddlers from gender bending chemicals in everyday products.

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Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Vietnam, Dioxin, Agent Orange, World News

Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims.

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Chemical-Sponsored Fishing Fest To Donate Contaminated Fish To The Poor

michiganmessenger.com | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walleye Fest, Saginaw, Eating Matters, Food Banks, Fish, Fishing, Dioxin, Pollution, Green News

Here's an example of a face-saving charity move gone horribly, horribly wrong: According to the Michigan Messenger, Dow Chemical is sponsoring Wal...

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Obama's EPA Ready To Address Michigan Toxins Where Bush's Didn't

michiganmessenger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Water Pollutants, Water, Michigan, Dioxin, Pollution, Green News

Dioxin, a by-product of the chemical manufacturing process, has long been known as a carcinogen and is regulated by state and federal agencies. EPA st...

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Be Wise with Paper

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, FSC Certified, Post-Consumer Recycled Paper, Dioxin, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Recycled Materials, Environment, Paper, Green News

The good news is paper recycling in the U.S. is on the rise, and choosing the right paper for your kitchen, bathroom or home office can help save forests and conserve energy, too.

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Dow Chemical Ordered To Clean Up Saginaw

Chicago Tribune | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Dioxin, Pollution, Cleanup, Dow Chemical, Green News

Federal officials Wednesday ordered Dow Chemical to clean up high levels of dioxin recently discovered in homes and yards in a Saginaw, Mich., neighbo...

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