According to Retraction Watch,
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has found that a neuroscientist who studied the effects of pesticides on a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease made up data.
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Via Retraction Watch: federally funded pesticides researcher guilty of faking data
Posted in Pesticides
Researchers: FDA’s BPA testing is ‘inadequate’
CNN: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other regulators are not using the best available science in their assessment of bisphenol-A’s (BPA) safety, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Endocrine Society.
Posted in Bisphenol A (BPA)
Potential changes to green building standards rile chemical, vinyl trade groups
It should also rile consumers, who wind up paying for this nonsense. The Washington Post reports….
Posted in Green building/LEED, LEED
Phthalates make you fat? “Rubber Ducky” … with apologies to Sesame Street
OH!
Rubber Ducky
Your the one
You make bath time
Lots of fun!
Rubber Ducky
I’m awfully fat because of you! (bobobodeo)
Continue reading
Posted in Phthalates
Does the marketing of organic food lead to bad behaviour? via @food_ethics
“Is labelling foods as “organic” a positive thing or not? Continue reading
Posted in Organic food
Hill: Chemical makers bristle at green building standards, say new rules will cost jobs
Chemical makers are bristling at proposed green building standards that they feel unfairly target their products. Continue reading
Posted in LEED
EWG Releases 2012 Shopper’s Guide to Scare You About Fruit and Veges
Or as they put it, Environmental Working Group Releases 2012 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce
Posted in Pesticides
CEOs pledge sustainability, urge ‘green revolution’
Business leaders gathered at a Rio+20 conference Monday pledged sustainable policies and joined a call for world leaders to usher in “a green industrial revolution” to save the planet.
Posted in Sustainability
Washington Post: ‘Functional food’ is hot, but its claims of health benefits rely on flimsy data
Posted in Magical food
EPA on Job Killing Chemicals Regulation: “We will try and exercise some muscle we have not exercised for decades.”
The EPA wants to use more regulatory power to clamp down on job-creating companies. Jim Jones, EPA’s acting assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention told the Generation Green blog, “We will try and exercise some muscle we have not exercised for decades.” Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia
What’s in Your Can, Campbell’s?
Here we go.. “No longer is “BPA-free” enough.” writes Margie Kelly, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World. Continue reading
Posted in Bisphenol A (BPA)
Diesel exhaust fumes can cause cancer, WHO says
LONDON (Reuters) – Diesel engine exhaust fumes can cause cancer in humans and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said on Tuesday.
Posted in Diesel
Daily Mail: Poisoned By Plastic
Chemicals in water bottles and food packaging have been linked to infertility and birth defects. Scaremongering, or the truth?
Posted in Bisphenol A (BPA)
Forbes: “Oasis” Film Is An Intellectual Desert
Coming soon to your local movie theater is a documentary film, “Last Call at the Oasis,” about the need for better management of what is arguably the world’s most critical resource: water. We do face worsening shortages for both human consumption and agriculture but if you dig into the subject a bit, you discover that the film is a shallow left-wing screed with commentary from a coterie of disreputable activists. Continue reading
Posted in Atrazine, Chromium-6, Water pollutiuon, Water scarcity
Atrazine Pact May Bypass Precedent on Low-Dose Exposure Risks
Inside EPA reports that the “Atrazine Pact May Bypass Precedent on Low-Dose Exposure Risks.” Continue reading
Posted in Atrazine
