"New York City To Ban Use Of Plastic Foam Containers"
"New York City will become the largest city in the country to ban restaurants from using plastic foam containers, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday."
Source: Huffington Post, 01/09/2015
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Decades of Petrochemical Industry Documents on Hiding Toxicity in Online Archive
The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia University, and City University of New York have just published some 20,000 pages of hitherto unpublished letters, e-mails, presentations, and meeting minutes from the oil and chemical industries in a public database, called "Exposed: Decades of Denial on Poisons."
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Ohio Utilities Seek To Keep Reasons for Public "Bailout" Secret from Public
Three major electric utilities want the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to make ratepayers pay for aging and unprofitable coal and nuclear generation plants in that state. But the ratepayers — the utilities claim — aren't entitled to know whether they might be ripped off.
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"Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity"
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"That Takeout Coffee Cup May Be Messing With Your Hormones"
"A new study suggests that whole classes of BPA-free plastics—including the kind in styrofoam—release estrogenic chemicals."
Source: , 12/02/2014
More Backyard Pesticides Show Up in California Watersheds: Report
"Levels of a type of pesticide commonly used in backyard gardens and on farms have increased in urban and rural watersheds in California, the state said in a report released Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 11/21/2014
"Survey: Shrimp in US Rife With Murky Labeling"
"Consumers around the nation can't be sure what kind of shrimp they're buying if they simply look at the label or menu at supermarkets, grocers and restaurants, an advocacy group says."
Source: AP, 10/30/2014
"The Secret Chemicals in Perfume Are About To Be Unbottled"
"SC Johnson will be the first large company to disclose all fragrance ingredients in products. Could this be the end of trade-secret protection for the fragrance industry? "
Source: Guardian, 10/16/2014
"When It Comes To Food Packaging, What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us"
"Recent analyses raise disturbing questions about the health and environmental effects of the stuff that encases our edibles."
Source: Ensia, 10/14/2014
"California Becomes First State To Ban Plastic Bags"
"Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Tuesday that makes California the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 10/01/2014
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