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Is Atlantic Salmon (Farmed Salmon) Linked to Obesity and Diabetes?

Dr. Walter Crinnion | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Salmon, Toxicity, Diabetes, Obesity, Chlorinated Pesticides, Farmed Salmon, Pcbs, Type 2 Diabetes, Salmon Diabetes, Salmon Obesity, Obesity and Diabetes, Healthy Living News

Rates of diabetes are climbing at an alarming rate. Across the world, the rates of the development of diabetes are dramatically increasing. In 2000, a...

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Dolphin Catastrophe in Peru Still a Mystery

Hardy Jones | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Yaipen Llanos, Pcbs, Ume, Peru, Dolphins, BlueVoice.Org, Mass Mortality, Ddt, Pops, Green News

What is known is that catastrophic die-offs of dolphins and other marine mammals are occurring with greater frequency and virulence around the world. They are an indication that the oceans are in deep, deep trouble; perhaps greater trouble than we have imagined.

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Japan Tsunami Anniversary: Could Tiny Bits Of Plastic In The Ocean Threaten Our Health?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Fukushima Anniversary, Natural Disasters, Japan Tsunami Anniversary, Plastic Pollution, Fukushima, Japan Earthquake 2011, Flame Retardants, Pacific Gyre, Japan Earthquake Anniversary, Microplastics, Video, Japan Earthquake 2012, Japan Tsunami, Ocean Pollution, Japan, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Pcbs, Green News

One year after a massive tsunami ravaged the east coast of Japan, much attention is focused on the bottles, refrigerators and other debris washed out ...

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A 'Toxic Treadmill': Dangerous Flame Retardants Remain Widespread In Children's Products

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Chlorinated Tris, Pbdes, Video, Baby Products, California, Fire Safety, Flame Retardants, Fire, New York, Pcbs, Green News

Flip over your couch cushion or desk chair and chances are, you'll see the same tag that is affixed to the bottom of many others: "This article meets ...

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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

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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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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Toxic Classrooms: Will NYC Schools Get Rid Of PCBs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Claire Gordon | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: New York City Schools, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Mayor Bloomberg, New York Communities for Change, NYC Schools, Michael Bloomberg, New York Pcbs, Pcbs in Schools, Birth Defects, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, New York Schools, Nyc Schools Pcbs, NYC Department of Education, Pcbs, Education News

At the end of the 2010-2011 school year, Michelle Chapman's 10-year-old daughter started complaining about headaches and fatigue. Her symptoms stopped...

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7 Simple Ways To Detox Your Diet And Your Home

EatingWell | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Bpa, Healthy Eating, Pesticides, Healthier-Greener-Home, Cleaner-and-Greener, Toxins, Healthy Living Body, Detox Diets, Wpa, Perfluorocarbons, Slidepollajax, Mercury, Diet and Nutrition, Dioxins, Eating Well, Phthalates, Pcbs, Healthy Living News

Nobody knows just how much of a risk toxins in our food really pose. But we're exposed to dozens, if not hundreds, of chemicals, and the effects of some multiple exposures may be more than the sum of their parts.

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'Green News Report' - July 28, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Norway Terrorist Attacks, Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Drought, Marcellus Shale, Rising Sea Level, Norway, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Clean Water Act, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Pcbs, Bp, Energy, Poverty, Fukushima, Gasoline, Rush Limbaugh, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Nuclear Power, Utilities, Environmentalism, Arctic, Appalachia, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Smart Grid, Heat, Green News, Sustainability, Fox News, Endangered Species, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Green News

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'Green News Report' - July 26, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Green News Report, Pollution, Drought, Marcellus Shale, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Clean Water Act, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Fukushima, Gasoline, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Utilities, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Heat, Green News, Sustainability, Fox News, Endangered Species, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Norway Terrorist Attacks, Coal, Rising Sea Level, Norway, Pcbs, Yellowstone, Poverty, Rush Limbaugh, Nuclear Power, Arctic, Appalachia, Smart Grid, Wildfires, 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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The City of New York Must Remediate PCBs Now, Not in 10 Years

Rep. Jerrold Nadler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polychlorinated Biphenyls, New York City, New York, Toxins, Pcbs, New York News

We cannot continue to play Russian Roulette with our kids' lives. polychlorinated biphenyls must be remediated quickly and efficiently from New York's schools.

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Green News Report: March 1, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Green Jobs, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Scott Walker, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, US Chamber of Commerce, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Koch Brothers, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Green News, Sustainability, Koch Industries, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Supreme Court, 350.Org, Australia, Fracking, West Virginia, Atlanta, Wikileaks, Don Blankenship, Hybrid Cars, Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Tim Dechristopher, Chevron, Bill Mckibben, Sun Chips, Pcbs, Ecuador, Commerce Department, Arctic Sea Ice, Toxic Chemicals, Deepwater Drilling, China, Upper Big Branch Mine, Desalination, James Inhofe, Factory Farms, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Electricity, Anonymous, Privatization, Interior Department, Massey Energy, Arctic, Water, Glenn Beck, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

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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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Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bpa, Algalita, Food Chain, Mercury, Pcbs, Ddt, Oceans, China, Plastic Bags, Algalita MRF, Anna Cummins, Marcus Eriksen, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Green News

Many of us limit our intake of tuna and swordfish due to high chemical levels in those fish, and research shows disposable plastic waste may be a potent source of this contamination.

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Green News Report: December 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Gop, General Electric, Cap and Trade, Antarctica, Green Jobs, Epa, Factory Farms, Pakistan Floods, Regulation, Pipelines, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Heat Wave, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Cancun Climate Summit, Global Warming, Pcbs, Bp, Massey Energy, Toxic Water, Biofuels, Research, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Pakistan, Environmentalism, Global Temperature, Arctic, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Green News, Oil, Rare Earth Elements, Sustainability, Joe Barton, Natural Gas, Endangered Species, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Upper Big Branch Mine, China, Green News

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

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Saving Energy And Cleaning Up Schools Could Cost 15,000 Teacher Jobs

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Department of Education, Pcb, Pcbs, Federal Funds, Epa, Education News

How many teacher's salaries does it take to change a lightbulb? According to the New York Department of Education, about 15,000. The Environmental ...

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Time for GE to Commit to Cleaning Up its Pollution in the Hudson River

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ge, New Jersey, Epa, Fish, Hudson River, Pollution, Fisheries, Jeff Immelt, New York, Pcbs, Green News

GE can successfully clean up its mess and finally return a healthier Hudson River to millions of area residents. But if GE starts dragging its heels now, we will lose the momentum achieved over the past 18 months.

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PHOTOS: 7 Toxic Chemicals In Your Seafood That You Don't Know About

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Since the smell test doesn't really cut it, we decided to investigate the chemicals in seafood that you might not know about. We all know that mercur...

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Eco Etiquette: 5 Farmed Fish That Get The Green Light

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mercury Pollution, Domsea Farms, Whale Meat Scandal, The Hump, Aquaculture, Sustainable Seafood, Seafood Watch, Fish Farming, Pcbs, Bluefin Tuna, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Our Oceans, Food Politics, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. My friend said that I sho...

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What Secrets Don't the Fish Oil Supplement Makers Want You to Know?

Chris Manthey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Personal Health, Health, Fish Oil, Pcbs, Fish Oil Supplements, PCB Fish Oil, Healthy Living News

Our tests have found that some fish oil pills have 70 times more PCBs in them than others, which might be good to know, particularly since they're hawking them to pregnant women and children.

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Brain Drain: Could Environmental Chemicals Cause Autism?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lead, Bpas, Brominated Flame Retardants, Fetal Brain Development, Autism, Pcbs, Environmental Hazards, Asd, Phthalates, Methylmercury, Fetal Health, Healthy Living News

It never occurred to me to worry about autism when I was pregnant in the '80s, but today it seems that few expectant parents haven't considered the possibility that autism might affect their child.

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Green News Report -- March 11, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hydroelectric, India, Venezuela, Sustainable Food, Fda, Green News Report, Whales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, American Farm Bureau, Stephen Colbert, Drought, Solar Energy, Industrial Food, Sushi, Climate Change, Pcbs, Processed Food, Copenhagen 2009, Salmonella, Wind Energy, Stephen Colbert Pringles, Pringles Recall, Copenhagen Accord, cop15, BRAD BLOG, The Cove, Green News, Natural Gas, Food Recall, Pringles, Unfccc, Extreme Weather, China, Green News

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How Toxic are Fish Supplements?

Stiv J. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Pellet Watch, CBS News, Algalita, 5gyres, Takada, Supplements, Fish, Pcbs, Toxins, Food Politics, Green News

One possible culprit posited by researchers for PCB contaminated fish comes from the behavior of fish mistaking plastic for food.

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Our Flame Retardants -- Ourselves

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Pcbs, Consumers, Ddt, Chemical Pollution, Chemicals, Fire Retardants, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Freons, Pbdes, Green News

Introduced as the miracle compounds, halocarbons have revealed themselves as fools good. The flame retardant chemical often leach, leading to lower IQs and depressed fertility.

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