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Please don't paint her toes
Last week I took my kids for a haircut. We go to a terrific woman in our neighborhood who runs a hair salon out of her house, and she's cut my kids hair since their very first cut. She's warm, patient...
The Declaration: Sign it to send a serious, effective message
It's simple, really. It is morally wrong that kids are born pre-polluted with hundreds of toxic chemicals. I know it, you know it. Shouldn't Congress know it?? We think so.
Stimulus Plan to Advance Research on Environmental Toxins and Kids' Health
One bit of good news to come out of the economic crisis: the stimulus bill's $10.4 billion for biomedical and behavioral research, to be distributed through the National Institutes of Health.
Toxins in your hood? You have the right to know, again....
Companies will have to provide more detailed disclosure of toxic chemicals they release into the environment under a little-noticed provision in the massive spending bill President Obama signed into...
The Enviroblog Top 10 in 2008: What was on our minds?
If you, too, are a blogger, then you know how fascinating it can be to look at stats. Which posts were super popular, read across the nation - or globe? And which were duds, appreciated by none. What...
Health Canada Finds BPA in Most Soft Drinks -- Energy Drinks Top List
New tests by Health Canada's Bureau of Chemical Safety have found bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic sex hormone and common plastics component, in 85 percent of 72 canned soft drinks sold in Canadian...
Want some mercury with that?
I had the flu so badly last week I drank something I haven't drank in over 20 years: ginger ale. And no, it wasn't ginger beer, the stuff in the bottle at the natural grocery that actually has ginger...
Industrial pollution doesn't have to begin in the womb
When EWG tested umbilical cord blood from 10 newborn babies in 2004, we discovered an unsettling reality: in today's world, industrial pollution begins in the womb. To be exact, the blood of these...
Bisphenol A - what are the sources of exposure?
On January 28, 2009, Susanne Rust of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on a new finding that endocrine disruptor and suspected cancer-causing chemical Bisphenol A may stay in the human body much...
Two toxic chemicals out of the children's toys, hundreds more to go
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, aimed at keeping lead and toxic plastic chemicals called phthalates out of children's toys, went into effect yesterday.
We Oregonians love our public transit
It's no surprise to Enviroblog readers that transportation spending has long been tilted toward highways and away from transit - and commuters have been the losers. In fact, EWG found that between...
Scientists: Lead contamination in drinking water is never safe.
When are traces of lead in drinking water dangerous? The better question is, when aren't they?
The call for citizen involvement: It's loud, clear & important
When John F. Kennedy gave his famous "Ask not what your country can do for you" inaugural speech in 1961, I wasn't alive. But I've long loved that line, as do so many others. Not because he stressed...
A signature can save the Grand Canyon
Special to Enviroblog by Dusty Horwitt, EWG Analyst Within moments of taking office, Secretary of the Interior-designate Ken Salazar (D-CO), has an opportunity with the sweep of his pen to protect the...
Something fishy about the fish....oh, wait, it's mercury
It was all over the news few weeks ago. On December 12, Environmental Working Group published a report called Mercury Mischief at FDA, disclosing internal documents from the federal Food and Drug...
Will California's condors be unleaded?
I’m having a hard time with this post. The issue seems so obvious, so clearly-cut, that there can’t possibly be much left for me to say. Lead bullets poison people in firing ranges, animals in the...
Officials refrain from dumping toxic sludge into Elliott Bay;<br>Mom not impressed
I was never rewarded for doing chores when I was a child. I was a part of the household, my mother told me, and she wasn’t going to applaud or pay me just because I did my part to help out. I think...
Three ways Congress can give the CPSC teeth
Look up “toothless tiger†in the dictionary, and you’ll see a picture of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Or at least that’s the impression given by the media and many of those...
Envirohealth News: Cancer risk from cell phones?
PBDE uptake patterns appear to be changing. In a study of families in Spain, the presence of specific chemicals mirrored that usually seen in electronics employees. There may be a relationship between...
9/10/07: EnviroHealth News
Asthma goes back to school. In LA, 63,000 students battle breathing problems caused by air pollution and moldy buildings. Can they carry their inhalers at school? Nobody seems sure. FEMA trailer...
Canadian politicians find there’s no escaping BPA
You don’t need me to tell you that poor folks are more likely to find themselves dealing with illnesses induced by environmental toxins (although clearly if you give me half a chance I will). Most...
SMM: iCount video bonanza
D&AD, a British organization which gives yearly awards for creativity in design, made sustainability the name of the game this year when they built part of their student film competition around iCount...
FDA proposes sunscreen regulations
Twenty-eight years after they first pledged to implement safety standards for sunscreens, the FDA has proposed regulations that would (among other things) require manufacturers to label sunscreens...
WaPo ignores BPA in baby formula
The hot topic among mothers at a play group this weekend was bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles. That's a shame, because it means those mothers -- and the Washington Post -- missed some crucial science...