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The EPA's Christmas Gift to Us All: Fewer Poisons in Our Air
10:15AM 12/27/2011
Last week, the EPA unveiled rules that establish the first national limits on power plant emissions of a host of poisonous airborne pollutants. It's estimated that they'll save the country billions of dollars in health care costs.
Light Bulbs Advertised as 'Green' Contain Arsenic and Lead: Study
11:00AM 2/15/2011
Those energy-saving little LED bulbs advertised as eco-friendly -- and used in strings of holiday lights and in car headlights -- actually contain toxic lead, arsenic and some other bad stuff, new research shows.
Alarming? Sure. But in a surprise twist, a study author says: Buy them anyway.
Is There a Toxic Chemical in 'Natural' Soy Burgers and Health Bars?
11:25AM 12/08/2010
Stop! Put down that veggie burger. Back slowly away from the health bar. Do you know how that thing was processed?
Cornucopia Institute, which advocates for family farmers and has a history of crying foul about the misuse of terms like "natural" and "organic" in food products, has a new...
Are 'Green' Cleaners Really Green?
12:00PM 11/15/2010
Supposedly "green" cleaners may not be as green as you think. You're probably being exposed to chemicals even if you're using presumably eco-friendly household cleaners, laundry detergents, air fresheners or personal-care products around the house, a new study suggests. Some of those chemicals are...
UPDATE: Walmart announced it is pulling the products identified as containing cadmium that are carried in its stores.
"We will immediately remove from sale those items identified in recent media reports regarding cadmium while our own investigation is being completed, and until more is known,"...
Boob tube shipments are up and manufacturer revenues are expected to rise in the first quarter, reversing a six-month decline. But LCD makers are hardly raking it in as prices continue to slide every year.
The state of Kerala in India is held up in global circles as a paragon of progressiveness. The southern region has a 97 percent literacy rate, the highest in India and far higher than the current literacy rate in the United States. Health care is nearly universal and 95 percent of babies are...
The disappearing toxic TV: Sales of lead-laden boob tubes plunge
11:00AM 9/30/2009
Remember that monstrous old television that sat in your living room and was almost as thick as it was tall and wide? Those old-school TVs were bad for the brain -- and not just due to the programming. No, the big TVs of yesteryear were also huge containers of toxic lead. Their cathode ray tubes...
Frank Sinton thinks human waste is highly underrated -- and highly profitable. A tech entrepreneur and the founder of PMC BioTec, Sinton pounds the table for the benefits of better processing of biowastes as not only environmentally sound but also good business. And he has the technology to prove...
Backlash over light bulb ban continues to build in Europe
10:00AM 9/11/2009
On September 1, the European Union began to enforce a ban on incandescent light bulbs. The response was immediate outcry from thousands of EU citizens who felt the blanket ban was overdone and failed to take into account hazards from compact fluorescent bulbs containing the toxic heavy metal...
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