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• Terrific Green Tool: Precautionary List From Perkins+Will

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 707
  Architects usually keep their proprietary research locked up and closely held. Perkins + Will has done the opposite and made it a public service. Launched at Greenbuild the Precautionary List is a compilation of available data on chemicals and materials that may well become "a catalyst for marketplace change". Jetson ...
  4 days ago

• Prenatal phthalate exposure de-masculinizes boys’ play?

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 134
  URMC.Rochester.edu - A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers’ prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting.The study by the University of ...
  5 days ago

• African pollution spreads to Americas in dust storms

  
  Smart Economy — Authority: 126
  Source: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2009 conference We know that African dust affects weather and hurricane severity in America...now we have one more thing to worry about---If only pollution would stay where it originates..it doesnt--Walter Derzko   It’s an ill wind that blows: ...
  1 week ago

• Plastics: Phthalates are true ‘gender benders’

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Disappointed Your Last Baby Not a Girl?Don’t Despair! You may still be in luck (!)Did you always want to a have a baby girl and are disappointed because the ultrasound revealed your final attempt to be yet another boy?Phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, are hormone endocrine disruptors. They can alter the brain ...
  1 week ago

• First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  More than a decade after Congress directed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out assessments of endocrine disrupting chemicals, the agency has announced the first set of compounds to be screened under its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can ...
  1 week ago

• Is That a Plastic Bottle Youre Drinking From?

  
  Nicholas D. Kristof — Authority: 624
  BPA is a common chemical used in plastics and cans used to contain food, yet it seems to have far reaching effects on our health -- particularly for young children. Yet the government has dropped the ball on regulating it.
  2 weeks ago

• An EPA-funded study gives BPA a clean bill of health

  
  Shaw's Eco-Logic — Authority: 117
  While we can only speculate as to how many studies of this type will be necessary to remove the scarlet letter from BPA, unjustly stitched on it by the fear entrepreneurs, a new rodent study—funded and conducted by EPA—finds that low-dose exposures of bisphenol A (BPA) showed no effects on the range of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Denmark Exposes the Risks of Two-Year Olds

  
  GoodGuide - Home — Authority: 117
  With two young nephews, I’m very concerned about their exposures to chemicals in consumer products and food, since we don’t know how all the chemicals may add up or how they may interact. Based on what science we do have, it’s possible that multiple chemical exposures may lead to much higher risks. With strong ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gender Bender Chemicals and Boys Turning Into Girls

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  Heres something rather rotten from the State of Denmark.
  4 weeks ago

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