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Chemicals In Everyday Products Turning Boys Into Girls?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

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, Living News
Christopher Gavigan

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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Personal Care Products Pose Unrecognized Toxic Risks To Children

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, Baby Care Products, Environmental Working Group, Childhood Cancer, Phthalates, Triclosan, Organic Consumers ASsociation, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

Babies are about 100 times more sensitive to carcinogens than adults. Infants and young children have immature liver enzymes, which give them only limited ability to detoxify carcinogens.

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Recycling Plastic: What a Waste

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental, Recycle, Styrene, Gyre, Single Use Plastics, Plastic-Pollution, Bpa, Reuse, Body Burden, Birth Defects, Cancer, Plastic Bottles, Petrochemical, Phthalates, Green Chemistry, Sups, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.

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Chemicals and the World's Expanding Waistline

Nena Baker | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Biomonitoring, Obesogens, Pfoa, Kid Safe Chemicals Act, Exercise, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Diet, Obesity, Phthalates, Living News
Nena Baker

A growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise.

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Could Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Vaccines Cause Autism?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, Environmental Health, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Toxics, Pediatrics, Chemicals, Detox, Vaccines, Toxins, Epa, Mercury, Environment, Bpa, Autism, Fire Retardants, Children's Health, Environmental Chemicals, Phthalates, Edcs, Living News
Deirdre Imus

Like it or not, vaccines are likely the largest source of one-time exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in early infant development.

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Bottled Water Takes a Blow Down Under, & Below the Belt

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Elizabeth Royte, Nicholas Kristof, Phthalates, Tap Water, Bottled Water, Bundanoon, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Will Nick Kristof's below-the-belt exposé resonate in the Beltway, which suffers inordinately from an absence of balls and an abundance of little pricks?

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Biomonitoring: Essential for Protecting Public Health

Nena Baker | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Biomonitoring, Flame Retardants, Body Burden, Bisphenol A, Kid Safe Chemical Act, Environmental Working Group, The American Chemistry Council, Phthalates, Green News
Nena Baker

We have a right to know what's in us, no matter how disturbing.

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Court Agrees: Phthalates are Banned From Toys Effective Next Week!

Sarah Janssen | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Toys, Simplesteps, Cpsc, Petition, Phthalates, Children, Personal Health, Nrdc, Raising Children, Parenting, Natural Resources Defense Council, Kids, Health, Children's Health, Parents, Living News
Sarah Janssen

Phthalates (pronounced thal-ates) are chemicals used in many common consumer products, including as softeners of plastic children's toys -- like a rubber ducky.

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From Pink Ribbons to a Right to Know Law

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, Estrogen, Health, Bpa Baby Bottles, Plastic Water Bottles, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Month, Phthalates, Living News
Frances Beinecke

I am a breast cancer survivor, and in the years immediately after my diagnosis, I sometimes found the annual proliferation of pink ribbons difficult--it was hard to be reminded of cancer.

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Green Business and "Compliance"...The Government is the Least of Your Worries...

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Bank of America, Target, Regulations, Wal-Mart, Environment, Bpa, Green Business, Toys "R" Us, Diesel Vehicles, Lead in Toys, Home Depot, Phthalates, Sears, Compliance, Green News
Andrew Winston

Most execs certainly see the need to do more than what the government is asking. And many forces are coming to bear on companies, making green a profitable (not optional) path.

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Bipartisan Support for our Children -- It Has Happened!

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Law, Children, Health, George W. Bush, Exxon Mobil, Cpsc, Environment, Lead Paint Toys, Regulation, Green Living, Bipartisanship, Chemicals, Toxic Toys, Phthalates, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

The final day of July 2008 may go down in history as the moment the tides of democracy shifted away from corporate cronyism and back to the people.

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