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Toxic Chemicals

Toxic, Pervy Scrubbing Bubbles Will Haunt Your Nightmares

For shiny happy housewives in shiny happy homes, scrubbing bubbles are your best friends when it comes to cleaning the bathroom -–or so advertising execs for household cleaners would have us believe. But after your initial glee at the cute little bubbles that cheerfully dissolve soap scum in your bathtub, you won’t be so happy [...]

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Chemical Cocktails Cause Penis Deformities in Baby Rats

You know how the EPA and the chemical industry are always claiming that all kinds of chemicals are safe, based on minimal exposure to a single chemical at a time? And you always think, “who’s only exposed to one chemical at a time?” Well, your instinct to distrust these claims is right on the mark, [...]

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EPA to Investigate Waste Dumping in Poor U.S. Communities

With the news about Britain getting caught dumping toxic waste in Brazil and Ghana, the injustice of hazardous dumping in third-world countries is getting some much-deserved press and analysis. But what about poor communities right here in the U.S. that are experiencing the same thing? Industry polluters abuse low-income and minority communities across the country, [...]

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Britain Gets Caught Dumping Toxic Waste

It’s been going on for decades, and nobody has ever called them out on it. Perhaps that’s what gave British companies the balls to continue dumping toxic hazardous waste in countries like Brazil and Ghana for all these years, despite the fact that it’s clearly harmful to the environment and human health. But two companies [...]

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California Identifies 30 More Toxic Chemicals

It’s nice to know that, while we haven’t been able to count on our federal government to properly warn and protect us against toxic chemicals found in everyday items, we can count on California. The state with the nation’s most stringent chemical reporting laws has identified 30 ‘new’ toxic chemicals that can potentially cause cancer [...]

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FEMA Might Get Sued for Toxic Trailers

Here we are, over three years after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and residents in that area are still dealing with the after effects in more ways than one.  We all know the story of how FEMA royally screwed up in the aftermath of the hurricane, failing to do its job in protecting and [...]

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