Apparently Disney doesn’t greenwash hard enough. Continue reading Greens go after Disney for illegal child lead exposures
Category: Chemicals
WSJ: Government vs. EPA
“The Environmental Protection Agency’s political agenda hasn’t gotten any less reckless, but the news is that the rest of the government is beginning to notice—including a majority of the states and even other regulators… Between the Governors and AGs, some 27 states are merely asking the EPA to delay the final [“Clean Air Mercury Rule” or “Utility MACT”) until the risks can be properly quantified…” (Wall Street Journal)
PCBs cause atherosclerosis?
A real Swedish meatball of statistical inference debunked by reality. Continue reading PCBs cause atherosclerosis?
The cost of EPA's TCE junk science
EPA pulls secondhand smoke trick on TCE
EPA says in a new assessment that the widely used solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) is carcinogenic to humans by all routes of exposure. But the EPA has simply pulled the same trick on TCE as it did on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) — a trick that got the EPA’s ETS cancer risk assessment trashed by a federal court. Continue reading EPA pulls secondhand smoke trick on TCE
Prenatal lead exposure increases blood pressure in female offspring?
Epidummyologists may have discovered another non-effect. Continue reading Prenatal lead exposure increases blood pressure in female offspring?
BPA causes Down syndrome?
Who knew that cell cultures could get Down syndrome? Continue reading BPA causes Down syndrome?
What a real Latino mercury problem looks like
If Latinos are going to sweat exposure to mercury, should they worry about air pollution or face cream from Mexico? Continue reading What a real Latino mercury problem looks like
Phthalates hurt child development?
Columbia University researchers are blaming child development problems on maternal exposure to the ubiquitous class of chemicals known as phthalates. What do we blame? Continue reading Phthalates hurt child development?
Solar industry's lead emissions
“Solar power is not all sunshine. It has a dark side—particularly in developing countries,” reports a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering professor. Continue reading Solar industry's lead emissions
Flame retardants reduce infant birthweight?
UC-Berkeley’s anti-flame retardant crusader Brenda Eskenazi is back at it with a new study claiming to link maternal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) with reduced infant birth weight. Continue reading Flame retardants reduce infant birthweight?
TCE, PCE still not associated with cancer
A new study of almost 78,000 aircraft workers fails to link the solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE or Perc) with increased cancer incidence — bad news for the EPA which has been after the pair for decades.