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FDA on sunscreens — the undecider
Posted by Elaine Shannon in FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
When life’s a beach – and also when it’s not – we all need a sunscreen that gets the job done. With skin cancer the most common of all malignancies and bogus claims and hype fogging the sun care products aisle, you’d think the federal Food and Drug Administration would step up the pace...
CNN’s Gupta focuses on Kid-Safe Chemicals Act
Posted by Elaine Shannon in EPA, Featured Articles, Legislation, Senate status, Tracking Kid Safe on February 26, 2010 | 6 Comments
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta reported this week that Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, intends to reintroduce the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act as the major vehicle for toxic chemicals policy reform “within the next month or so.”
In a segment called Chemicals, innocent or guilty, Gupta, a physician and CNN’s...
Chemical Secrecy Keeps BPA in Food
Posted by Alex Formuzis in FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on February 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
Michael Potter, who runs a company that cans organic foods in Michigan, has a problem. He doesn’t want to sell Eden Food’s products in cans lined with epoxy resin containing bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen linked to a variety of potential health hazards.
But, as he told Washington Post reporter...
Coke, Pepsi court green cred but fudge on BPA
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, Environmental Health Science, FDA, Featured Articles, Green Science News on February 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
There’s a lot to like about Coca-Cola’s bid for green cred at the 2010 Winter Olympics. A key sponsor of the Vancouver games, the multinational maker of more than 3,000 beverages is boasting a no-waste, carbon-neutral presence, with coolers that don’t emit greenhouse gases, staff uniforms and...
Secret Chemicals: File This Under, “You Gotta Be Kidding!”
But we’re not.
Here’s the story. When a chemical manufacturer finds out that one of its products “presents a substantial risk of injury to health or the environment,” the company is required under federal law to give that information immediately to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The...
BPA: Why are we still eating this stuff?
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
The federal Food and Drug Administration hasn’t forced the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) out of food packaging – yet. But as things now stand, it’s just a matter of time.
On Friday, in a dramatic about-face, FDA officials announced they would “support” – meaning jawbone — the...
EPA Moves on “Chemicals of Concern”
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Government (In)Action, Know Your Toxins, Legislation, Tracking Kid Safe on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
It’s good to see the issue of reforming toxic chemicals regulation getting widespread coverage in a variety of media. Just this week (Jan. 11), Scientific American magazine published on its website a good account by author Lizzie Grossman of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) year-end decision...
CA Green Chemistry Author Backs Tough Chem Regs
Posted by Elaine Shannon in Green Science News, Legislation, State and Local on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
By Renee Sharp, Director, EWG California Office, and Bill Allayaud, California Director of Governmental Affairs
In September 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a measure that aimed to strengthen California’s trail-blazing Green Chemistry Initiative and transform the way that chemicals...
Congressman Cleans Up
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Household cleaners, Legislation, Pollution in People on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
Sure, it’s an act, but it beats watching a bunch of suits standing at a lectern in the Congressional press gallery. In a video he posted recently on YouTube, Rep. Steve Israel gets down and dirty – actually, he gets down and cleans. Wearing a yellow tie and the sleeves of his blue shirt rolled up,...
Top 10 Environmental Stories of the Decade — That You Might Have Missed
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Legislation, Pollution in People on December 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
EWG staffers put our heads together to come up with this list of bad news environmental stories over the last decade that people might have missed. But there were plenty of big stories that hardly anyone could have missed, such as climate change. What’s on your list of the biggest environmental...
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