Heavy Metals

Is Business Support for Communities Waning?

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Cisco, Study of US Competitiveness, Victoria's Secret, John Morgridge, Human Rights Resource Centre, Michael Porter, Keystone Pipeline, Obama, Harvard Business School, China, Consumer Power, Csr, Social Reponsibility, Heavy Metals, Business News
Carol Pierson Holding

U.S. companies may have grown lackadaisical because consumers have stopped using their pocketbook power to influence corporate behavior. If all American consumers care about is price, why should companies focus on anything other than reducing production cost?

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PHOTOS: Marilyn Minters Paintings Up Close

Posted 12.20.2011

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Straddling the tasty and tasteless, glamorous and grotesque, Marilyn Minter's hyper-saturated (in every sense of the word) paintings are like a ...

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Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal in The Last Mountain

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Maria Gunnoe, Particulates, Bo Webb. Mountain Justice Summer, Mountaintop Blasting, George W. Bush, Documentary Film, Penn Future, Obama, Coal River Mountain, Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, Coal, Ed Wiley, Electricity, Activism, Coal River Valley, John Kennedy, Susan Bird, Asthma, New Source Rule, Robert F. Kenedy Jr., The Last Mountain, Ovec, Massey Energy, Joe Manchin Greenhouse Gases, Silicosis, Alpha Natural Resources, Green, Uncommon Productions, EPA Fine, Bill Haney, Appalachian Mountains, Coal Lobby, Mine Disaster, Heavy Metals, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Green News, Toxic Fly Ash, Ozone, Video, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

Featuring citizen activists fighting for clean air and water against entrenched interests and corporate dollars, the documentary combines backstory, statistics, and human interest to explain more fully the narrative of where our electricity comes from.

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Lynne Peeples

The Dirt On Shop Towels: Are Industrial Workers At Risk?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Kimberly Clark, Dirty Towels, Heavy Metal, Kimberly Clark Research, Car Repair, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Industrial Pollution, Heavy Metal Contamination, Kimberly-Clark, Contaminated Towels, Cancer, Towels, Toxic Metals in Towels, Heavy Metals, Toxins, Green News

Once a week, a batch of freshly laundered red towels, sealed in plastic, arrives at the Atlas Garage on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, while 100 or...

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What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter?

Hardy Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Pollutants, Disease in Dolphins, Whaling, Dolphin Slaughter, Japan, Heavy Metals, Dolphin Hunting, Green News
Hardy Jones

It baffles me that whaling and dolphin killing can persist in the 21st century. Whale and dolphin watching generate over $2.1 billion per year around the world, vastly more than whale and dolphin killing.

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Almost All Herbal Supplements Found To Have Contaminants: Lead, Mercury, Arsenic Found

New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Herbal Supplements, Alzheimer's Disease, Pesticides, Lead, Congress, Cadmium, Food Safety, Ginseng, Fda, Heavy Metals, Arsenic, Health, Garlic, Mercury, Cancer, Diabetes, Gao, China, Consumer Product Safety, Alternative Medicine, Healthy Living News

Nearly all of the herbal dietary supplements tested in a Congressional investigation contained trace amounts of lead and other contaminants, and some ...

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Drugs, Poisons and Metals in Our Meat -- USDA Needs A Major Overhaul

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cafo, Prions, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Food Safety, Residues in Food, Heavy Metals, Antibiotic Resistance, Epa, Usda, Mad Cow, Fda, Factory Farm, Antibiotics, Fsis, Health, Beef Safety, Michelle Obama Health, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

Washington dumped some more bad news Friday afternoon when the USDA's Office of Inspector General issued a damning and unsettling report on the department's "National Residue Program for Cattle."

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How to Rid Your Body of Mercury and Other Heavy Metals: A 3-Step Plan to Recover Your Health

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Mark Hyman, MD

I will provide you with a clear, three-step plan to help you detoxify from mercury and other heavy metals and recover your health. I have used this plan successfully and safely with patients over the last 10 years.

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Mercury: How To Get This Lethal Poison Out Of Your Body

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mark Hyman MD, Ultrawellness, Toxins, Mercury, Heavy Metals, Detoxification, Health, Mercury Toxicity, Mercury Poisoning, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

There's no doubt about it, mercury is the most alarming, disease-causing source of environmental toxicity that I see daily in my practice.

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Is There Toxic Waste In Your Body?

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lead, Mercury, Toxicity, Ultrawellness, Chronic Illness, Pesticides, Heavy Metals, Environmental Pollution, Detoxification, Mark Hyman MD, Health, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

Eighty thousand toxic chemicals have been released into our environment since the dawn of the industrial revolution, and very few have been tested for their long-term impact on human health.

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Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Superfund Polluter Pays Act, H.R. 832, Superfund Sites, Coal-Fired Power Plant, Environmental Health, Mercury, Coal Ash, Birth Defects, Love Canal, Pcbs, Pollution, Children's Health, Superfund, Heavy Metals, Cercla, Green News
Deirdre Imus

Corporations need to take economic and social responsibility for their business practices. Environmental pollution is a major health threat with enormous economic consequences.

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Scary Stuff: Children's Halloween Face Paints May Contain Lead

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Face Painting Kits, Green Diy, Halloween, Lead in Face Paint, Green Halloween, Green News, Natural Home Living, Diy, Cobalt, Green Living, Nickel, Heavy Metals, Toxic Chemicals, FDA Compliant, Face Paint, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Hypoallergenic, Contact Dermatitis, Children's Health, Natural Home, Natural Home Magazine, Green News
Robyn Griggs Lawrence

A new Campaign for Safe Cosmetics report reveals that some children's face paints contain heavy metals such as lead, nickel and cobalt that can cause lifelong skin sensitization and contact dermatitis.

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Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Neglected At A Cost To Health

The New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Lead, Baths, Municipalities, Rashes, Health, Toxic Water, Wells, Clean Water Act, Heavy Metals, Barium, Epa, Clean Water Act Violations, Showers, Manganese, Pollutants, Arsenic, Water Utilities, Public Health, Sewage, Drinking Water, Green News

Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact wit...

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