"Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming"
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"Schools Say Ciao To Plastic Lunch Trays, Hello To Compostable Plates"
"Six of the largest school districts in the country have banded together to revamp school lunches — and they're starting from the plate up."
Source: NPR, 06/08/2015
"Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy — How Carbon Is Changing the Cost of Everything"
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Americans Can't Know Whether Chemicals in Products They Use Are Unsafe
As Congress limps toward revisions of the badly broken Toxic Substances Control Act, it's clear that only a small fraction of the roughly 84,000 chemicals in commerce in the U.S. have actually been tested for health effects. Now an environmental health group has rated some household cleaning products firms.
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"Scientists Call for Limits on Stain- And Water-Proofing Chemicals"
"More than 200 scientists outline potential health concerns from fluorinated chemicals, urge replacements and tightened regulations ".
Source: EHN, 05/04/2015
"Home Depot Says It Will Phase Out Chemical Used in Vinyl Flooring"
"Facing pressure from consumer groups, Home Depot said it would discontinue use of a potentially harmful chemical in its vinyl flooring by the end of the year."
Source: NY Times, 04/23/2015
"Lowe's To Eliminate Pesticides That Hurt Crop Pollinating Honeybees"
"Home improvement chain Lowe's Cos Inc will stop selling a type of pesticide suspected of causing a decline in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, following a few U.S. retailers who have taken similar steps last year."
Source: Reuters, 04/10/2015
Stop Playing 'Whack-A-Mole' With Toxic Flame Retardants, Enviros Urge
"As the public has learned of health risks tied to chemicals in everyday products, many companies have responded by eliminating, one by one, the suspected cancer causers, brain damagers and hormone disruptors. But even prompt action doesn't entirely appease some health experts, who warn of a problematic pattern."
Source: Huffington Post, 04/02/2015
"NOAA: Few Investigators Remain for Crackdown on Seafood Fraud"
"On a recent afternoon, Gregg Houghaboom pointed to a photo of a fish fillet and asked a room full of ocean experts to identify it. They couldn't. Absent a head, tail and scales, it looked like a hunk of grouper -- but it was actually Lake Victoria perch."
Source: Greenwire, 03/13/2015
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