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Toxic Chemicals

More to Deal with Than Just Climate: 25 Years Since Bhopal Disaster

Andrew Winston | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bhopal, Dupont, Copenhagen 2009, Pollution Prevention, Reach, Baby Bottles, Nike, Responsible Care, Bpa, Climate Change, SC Johnson, Toxics Release Inventory, Hp, Rohs, Green News
Andrew Winston

The issue of toxicity and chemicals is one that lies somewhat separate from the climate discussion. While it gets lost in the shuffle sometimes, the pressure on companies to deal with it just keeps rising.

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More Than Genes III: Pregnancy, Toxic Environments, and Fetal Vulnerability

Dan Agin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pregnancy, Epigenetics, Gene Expression, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Industrial Pollution, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Living News
Dan Agin

It's natural for pregnant women to feel besieged by the idea of environmental toxic impacts on the developing fetus. The reality is that we're all besieged by this idea. But is it better to be ignorant of the dangers?

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Method's Shiny Suds Video: Getting Behind The Household Product Labeling Act (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Household Cleaners, Green Living, Green Cleaners, Toxic Cleaners, Poll, Polling Methodology, Household Product Labeling Acts, Green News

With the tag line "when did clean become so dirty?," Method cleaning products -- known for their environmentally-friendly ingredients -- has launched ...

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Cigarette Butts' Toxicity Kills Fish

news.discovery.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Sustainability, Marine Life, Cigarettes, Animals, Cigarette-Butts, Fish, Green News

Even with a small amount of unburnt tobacco clinging to it, a single cigarette butt soaked for a day is enough to turn a liter of water a sickly yello...

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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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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Expanding Islands of Trash

nytimes.com | LINDSEY HOSHAW | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Trash-Island, Trash, Sustainability, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Garbage, Garbage Vortex, Environment, Green News

Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patc...

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Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Environment, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Pollution, Ocean, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

Due to our inability and slowness to adequately describe and respond to the threat, certain areas of our coasts and oceans have become overwhelmed by plastic.

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Scary Looks Without Scary Contents

Paul McRandle | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Halloween, Makeup, Living News
Paul McRandle

This Halloween, use adult makeup on yourself or your children instead of cheap, costume makeup, which is more likely to contain toxic substances like lead or formaldehyde.

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

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

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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Erin Brockovich, Seventh Generation Launch Million Baby Crawl Campaign (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Cleaning Products, Children, Million Baby Crawl, Exposure to Chemicals, Organic Cosmetics, Chemicals, Babies, Legislation, Toxic Chemicals, Diapers, Infants, Activism, Seventh Generation, Erin Brockovich, Green Cleaning Products, Kids Safe Chemicals Act, Healthy Families Act, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, Video, Green News

Oh baby! Seventh Generation has teamed up with Erin Brockovich and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families in order to overthrow the old chemical legislatio...

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One Stop Shopping for Greening Your Home: Green Depot Has It All

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Barney's, Economic Downturn, Whole Foods, Building-Projects, Green Jobs, Going Green, Adrien Grenier, Greenwashing Companies, Green, Green Business, Green Energy, Global Economic Crisis, Local Produce, Hgtv, Green Technology, Greenwashing, Asthma, New Business, National Jewish Health, Sarah Beatty, Green Recovery, Green Buildings, Green Construction, Environmental Health, Green Building, Environmentalism, Green Rebuilding, Women in Business, Green Living, Toxic Chemicals, Consumer Trends, Green-Depot, Green News, Toxicity, Green-Trends, Green Cleaning Products, Home Construction, Buying Power, Green Cleaning, Allergies, Green News
Marissa Bronfman

Find out how Sarah Beatty, a determined new green business woman, has earned Green Depot's moniker as America's leading one-stop shop for building solutions.

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Harmful Chemicals In Daily Products

divinecaroline.com | :Â Lakshmi Gosyne (View Profile) | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Moisturizer, Toxic Chemicals, Skin Care, Wellness, Living News

Most people don't think anything of putting chemicals on their skin. You may think as long as the moisturizer has a label that states "with shea butte...

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Diabetes and Endocrine Disruption: Connecting the Dots

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Atrazine, Diabetes, Living News
Maria Rodale

I consider myself fairly well-read, and educated about health. I've researched the endocrine disruption effects of chemicals--that is, the ways that c...

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Why I'll Swig From My Sigg No More

Nena Baker | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Water Bottles, Cdc, Polycarbonate Plastic, Sigg Bottles, Steve Wasik, Sigg, Fda, Klean Kanteen, Bpa Bisphenol A, Bpa Bans, Green News
Nena Baker

Good-bye Sigg. Hello Klean Kanteen.

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Actualities: Weed Killers in Your Water

Dan Agin | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Epa, Atrazine, Weed Killers, Fetal Development, Environmental Pollution, Green News
Dan Agin

The basic question for toxicologists and pediatricians (and for the EPA) is whether there is indeed such a thing as a "safe" concentration of a toxic substance for an embryo or fetus. My own view is no.

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A New Chapter In The Erin Brockovich/Hexavalent Chromium Story

John DeCock | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Water Pollution, Toxics, Water, Green, Environment, Erin Brockovich, Hexavalent Chromium, Pollution, Green News
John DeCock

Our primary concern now is that further delay by the state not only puts those drinking Hexavalent Chromium at risk, but delays clean up of water supplies and fails to hold polluters accountable.

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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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Use the Precautionary Principle

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: White House Garden, White House, Obama White House, Lead, Michelle Obama, Eddie Gehman Kohan, The Obama Girls, Gardening, Epa, Green News, Lead Poising, Sewage Sludge, Obama Administration, Organic Gardening, Organic Food, National Park Service, Toxic Chemicals, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

At the White House, the precautionary principle should be used: lead contaminated soil should be removed and replaced with organic compost. That would be the safe and truly organic way.

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Outing the Toxics in Our High Chairs

Joan Blades | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Baby Products, Momsrising, Bromine Industry, Environmental-Toxins, Flame-Retardants, Green News
Joan Blades

It is unconscionable to expose babies to these chemicals -- especially since the 12-second flame resistance provided by these toxic chemicals has shown no measurable benefit in terms of fire protection.

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The Obama Organic Family Garden: Swimming in Sludge?

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Obama White House, White House, Lead, Sewage Sludge, Michelle Obama, Organic Gardening, Lead Poising, Organic Food, Epa, National Park Service, Obama Administration, Gardening, The Obama Girls, White House Garden, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

The Obamas may be the newest sludge victims. Michelle's hopes of having a truly organic garden and healthy vegetables for her own children and other children who visit the White House have been dashed.

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Cracking the Autism Riddle: Toxic Chemicals, A Serious Suspect in the Autism Outbreak

Harvey Karp | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Teflon, Brain, Children, Autism, Children's Health, Formaldehyde, Living News
Harvey Karp

We used to think substances like Teflon, plastics, and formaldehyde were harmless, but a rising tide of evidence has turned the spotlight on chemical exposures as a possible poison to our children's developing brains.

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Kids Safe Chemical Act: The Chemical Industry Takes on the Mommy Lobby

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Toxic Chemicals, Babies, Kids Safe Chemical Act, Environmental Working Group, Robyn O'Brien, Allergykids, Green News
Robyn O'Brien

The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act would require manufacturers to first prove a chemical is actually safe before it's allowed into a consumer product.

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Crops Could Get Toxic If Climate Continues To Warm

Reuters | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Levels, Crops, Global Warming Pollution, Grains, Whole Grains, Toxic Chemicals, Global Warming Effects, Climate Change, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Food, Global Warming, Green News

Staples such as cassava on which millions of people depend become more toxic and produce much smaller yields in a world with higher carbon dioxide lev...

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30 New Toxic Chemicals You Should Avoid

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Toxic Substances, Toxic, Children, Health, Environment, Reproductive Problems, Cancer, Green Living, Green News

California has identified 30 chemicals that may cause cancer, reproductive problems and other serious health concerns. ...

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NY Air Pollution Carries Serious Cancer Risk: Feds

AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, New York Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Smog, New York Smog, Epa, Toxic Air Pollutants, Pollution, Air Pollution, New York, New York City, New York News

AP - Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a ...

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