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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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Holiday Hazards for Your Pet

Sophia Yin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Pet, Cat, Veterinary Medicine, Dogs, Toxins, Holidays, Pet Hazards, Holiday Season, Style News
Sophia Yin

Which temptation will catch your pet's fancy first? Suddenly Kitty's scaling the pine scented jungle gym, or Fido, the intact male is enjoying his new Douglas Fir port-a-potty.

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Halloween? Bah, Humbug!

Michael DeJong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Halloween, Store-Bought, Acrylic, 350.Org, Toilet Paper, Eco-Minded, Cover Girl, China, Pretty Scary, Toxins, Sugar Crash, Paper-Bags, All-Hallows-Eve, Christmas, Eco-Freaks, Jack-O-Lanterns, Urban Myth, Plastic, Flame-Retardant, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Fire-Retardants, Trick-or-Treat, Holidays, Petrochemicals, Pumpkin Seeds, Ready-Made Costumes, Revlon, Candy-Corn, Martha Stewart, Candy-Bars, Heavy-Metal-Toxins, Booty, Womens Voices for the Earth, Big Box Store, Carbon Footprint, Mask, Make-Up, Forest Stewardship Council, Halloween Costumes, Columbus Day, Seventh Generation, Nylon, X-Box 360, Acetate, Ghoul Make-Up, Mommy-Made, Maybelline, Green News
Michael DeJong

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy festive holidays as much as the next person, but we eco-freaks can't help ourselves from sucking the fun out of things, particularly when it comes to harming children.

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Dust Becomes You

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Paul Hawken, Toxic Substance Control Act, Chemicals, Dust, Toxins, Living News
Christopher Gavigan

Many of the products inside your home, and the materials used to make the building itself, are slowly degrading and breaking down over time in small, microscopic particles that become part of your household dust.

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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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Environmental Groups and Chemical Industry Agree on Regulating Toxics?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Tsca, Frank Lautenberg, Kids-Safe-Chemical-Act, The American Chemistry Council, Epa, Toxins, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

Have the historical competing interests finally converged? Can the economy and the environment be BFF?

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Organics No Better Than Chemical/GMO/Sewage Sludge-Soaked "Food"?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Farmer's Market, Environmental, Toxic, Michael Pollan, Farm, Farmers, Green, Conventional Food, Foodie, Eco, Cancer, Chemicals, Whole Foods, Organic, Organics, Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com, Elephant Journal, Toxins, Green News
Waylon Lewis

Studies like the FSA report need to look beyond the dinner plate and recognize that organic farming's avoidance of chemicals offers health benefits beyond nutrition.

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Eating Fish, Eating What?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Wild Salmon, Fish Market, Pcbs, Mercury Poisoning, Whales, Toxins, Fish Farming, Sea, Fish, Sushi, Fishing, Tuna, Fisheries, Green News
Trey Borzillieri

The average consumer is so uninformed about fish that looking through the glass case and pointing is like hitting a button on a vending machine with signage in a foreign language.

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There is No Such Thing as Junk Food...There's Just Junk! Let's Get It Out of Our Schools

Deirdre Imus | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Cafeteria Food, Organic Food, Children's Environmental Health, School Lunch, Whole Foods, Junk Food, Imus Ranch for Kids With Cancer, Children's Health, Healthy Snacks, Toxins, Living News
Deirdre Imus

It's lunchtime at your child's school. Do you know what's on the menu?

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Sens. Schumer, Gillibrand Slam EPA On Lack Of Health Warnings On Contaminated Fish

New York Daily News | Erin Durkin | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Kristen Gillibrand, Schumer, New York, Shumer, New York Toxic Fish, Senator Schumer, Charles Shumer, Toxic Fish, Toxic Fishing, Toxin Fish, Senator Gillibrand, Charles Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Kristen Gillibrand, Toxins, New York News

New York's senators on Monday blasted the lack of health warnings that have left many New Yorkers unknowingly eating dangerously contaminated fish. A...

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How Will This Weekend's Fireworks Affect You?

Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, July 4, Fourth of July, Pollution, Air Pollution, Fireworks, Fourth-of-July-Celebration, Toxins, Green News

Fourth of July fireworks unleash a shower of toxins into the soil and water, and scientists are only beginning to figure out what that means for human...

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EPA Says Air Pollution In 600 Neighborhoods Poses Cancer Risk

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic, Personal Health, Health, Epa, Air Quality, Pollution, Wellness, Toxins, Living News

WASHINGTON — Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that ...

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Dry Cleaning: Do It Less, Do It Greener

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Clean, C02 Cleaning, Green, Environment, Wet Cleaning, Climate Change, Toxins, Dry Clean, Green News

Not only is dry cleaning expensive it's actually terrible for the environment. The main chemical used by dry cleaners is perchloroethylene, which the ...

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Iphone App Informs Consumers About Products' Health Impact

nytimes.com | Claire Cain Miller | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Beauty Produces, Personal Health, Shopping, Social Impact, Health, Health and Beauty, Consumers, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, Wellness, Toxins, Living News

These days, every skin lotion and dish detergent on store shelves gloats about how green it is. How do shoppers know which are good for them and good ...

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What Tobacco And BPA Have In Common

enviroblog.org | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, BPA Lobby, Lobbyists, Toxins, Green News

Flash forward to last week. Embattled food and chemical industry reps, trying to head off a nationwide ban of the toxic plastic chemical bisphenol A (...

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The Benefits of Natural, Chemical-Free Beauty Products

Renata Helfman | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxins in Makeup, Chemicals in Makeup, Harmful Chemicals, Makeup Artists, Toxic Makeup, Makeup, Skin Care, Toxins, Green News
Renata Helfman

When I took a look at the ingredients in my personal care products, I realized that virtually everything in my bathroom and makeup kit was laden with harmful chemicals.

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Cement Industry: Mercury And Toxins Must Stay!

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Mercury, Cement, Pollution, Toxins, Environment, Green Politics, Epa, Green News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A group representing the U.S. cement industry says a federal government plan for cutting emissions of mercury and other a...

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Lisa Jackson On What's Next For New-Look EPA (SLIDESHOW)

US News and World Report | Kent Garber | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Slideshow, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Toxins, Green News

US News has a lengthy Q&A with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about her plans for the EPA (TIME Magazine apparently had the same Earth Day idea). She ...

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Time to Applaud the "New" EPA

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Arsenic, Clean Coal, Toxic, Benjamin Cardin, Coal Industry, Lamar Alexander, Environment, Mercury, Coal Ash, President Obama Environment, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Coal, Stephen Johnson, Toxins, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

We've got to make sure that the coal industry's considerable money and influence and the false hope of "clean coal" don't sidetrack government action.

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Detox Demystified: Fad, Fact, Or Fiction?

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living

Read More: How to Detox, World Health Organization, Detox Demystified, Personal Health, Health, Body Toxins, Detox Pros and Cons, Environmental Working Group, Detox, Toxins, Wellness, Living News
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

I just finished reading the latest about how celebrities "detox,"--pretty much by starving themselves. I cringe when I see these articles. What other ...

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Man Sues Polluters On Behalf Of US Schoolchildren

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollution Lawsuit, Polluters, Children, Environment, Pollution, Toxins, Green News

INDIANAPOLIS — Ron Kurth, who grew up in Gary and worked in the steel mills, raised his family in the region near the outskirts of Chicago. He a...

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What If We Hadn't Cut Back On CFCs? A Scary World

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollution, Hairspray, Aerosols, Cfcs, Toxins, Ozone, Environment, Green News

WASHINGTON — Here's rare good news about an environmental crisis: We dodged disaster with the ozone layer. A NASA study about ozone-munching che...

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Country Unifying Against BPA In Products

treehugger.com | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic, Bpa, Toxins, Green News

In a matter a few years at most, babies living in the USA will likely be off the BPA-laced formula. Washington Post documents two important developmen...

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What's In Our Cleaning Products?

MSNBC | Posted 04.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollutants, Green Living, Chemicals, Cleaning Products, Toxins, Green News

Cleaning products are some of the things that we all use where we're used to willingly allowing tons of chemicals we can't pronounce into our own home...

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Toxic Substances Agency Officials "Ignore Legitimate Health Concerns"

AP | RITA BEAMISH | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollution, Toxins, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Green Politics, Green News

The federal agency charged with protecting the public near toxic pollution sites often obscures or overlooks potential health hazards, uses inadequate...

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