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Call it “one step up and two steps back,” or call it cowardice, the move to abandoned proposed chemical rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, looks and sounds like intimidation. But in the wake of the EPA’s ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Corporate Social Responsibility, Health, Industry & Business (1 comment)
Syria is a global human tragedy. I used to live in the Middle East. I was there during 9/11. I know the intensity of feeling among the Arab nation on these things. I often went into Syria, including Damascus. I revisited the Syrian border last year. I entered the ... keep reading
Written by Kennedy Graham MP last month, about Chemicals, Children and Families, War
Agence France-Presse reports that TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like "whack-a-mole", according to a minister who visited the plant, and he is pledging Japan's government would step up its involvement at the site. 300 tonnes of highly radioactive toxic liquid has leaked from one ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry & Business
In May, the protest against Monsanto and its genetically modified seeds went from local to global. Instead of the usual firm but nonviolent debate carried on inside the pages of such online sites asNatural News , Saturday’s protest went physical. Participants, who marched carrying signs ranging from the stereotypical ... keep reading
Written by Andrew Miller in June, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Chemicals, Children and Families, Corporate Social Responsibility, Food, Health, Sustainability
How much will BP pay to compensate for damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster? One article in a three-part cover package on the disaster in this week’s edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) focuses on what promises to be a long, complicated federal trial — now getting underway ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in June, about Chemicals, Environmental Disasters, Pollution
Ever since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, we have become sharply aware of the hazards of extracting fossil fuels from the earth. This danger presents itself not merely on oil rigs but on pipelines and in processing plants with disturbing regularity ... keep reading
Written by Andrew Miller in May, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Health, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
As the Epoch Times reports the Chinese government has for the first time admitted the existence of “cancer villages”—areas near factories and polluted waterways where cancer rates have increased to startlingly high levels. "The Sina Weibo of the state-run Global Times on Wednesday published news and a map of ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in March, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Health, Industry & Business, Population
Honeybees are in trouble – a stressful lifestyle and an unhealthy diet are being compounded by mite attacks – but we needn’t panic about pollination. Australia has many native bee (and other pollinator) species that could be taking care of business, if we only took better care of them. What do ... keep reading
Written by Manu Saunders/Chas Sturt Uni in February, about Agriculture & Food, biological farming, Chemicals, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Science, Sustainability
A new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health shows that exposure to flame retardants commonly found in furniture, carpets, upholstery and electronics is linked to poorer attention, fine motor skills delay and other health problems in school-aged children. The report, published on ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in the US in December 2012, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Design, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior (2 comments)
Mayor Bloomberg in New York has banned the big jumbo sodas because of their adverse effect on public health, and New Zealand has done er -nothing, Japan is approaching the issue a different way Pepsi is introducing a big gulp soda that claims to actually help block fat. It’s ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in November 2012, about Advertising, Advertising and regulatory advice, Chemicals, Children and Families, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior
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