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SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 29, 2009 (ENS) - Some children's face paints contain lead, a neurotoxin that can harm the brain at low doses, according to new product tests documented in a report from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of nonprofit health and environmental grou...
Sustainable Spaces, founded by green thought leader Matt Golden, brought the high-tech tools of home performance to the floor of West Coast Green. Using equipment like a Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera, the crew at Sustainable Spaces explained some of the energy savings and health benefits to...
130 years after Edison tested the first commercially viable lightbulb, EU legislators are finally closing the book on this life-changing, but what some see as an antiquated technology. Restrictions on the sale of incandescent bulbs began last week with the phase-out of 100W incandescent bulbs. These...
Today the EPA provided steps to raise awareness about the toxicity of lead-based products and how they are particularly dangerous to children. "Lead is still present in many of our neighborhoods, but we can limit exposure to children and adults by working together on comprehensive actions...,” said...
CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 6, 2009 (ENS) - Companies on three continents continue to make and sell consumer paints that contain dangerous levels of lead despite the availability of technology to produce high-quality, low lead paint. A tougher lead paint standard takes effect in the United States later...
Orlando, FL July 14, 2009 - After a year of development, the highly anticipated interactive online game site, SavePlanetBlue.com has been launched. Children around the world are invited to come register and become Planet Blue Savers for Free.
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering taking a neutral stance rather than promoting the use of recycled tires as playground foam and crumb rubber. Currently recycled tires are used on playgrounds in two different fashions: a "crumb rubber" soil substitute used to weigh down artificial g...
Veggie Laws limit your right to talk freely about the food you eat. As unnerving as this may seem, people like filmmaker Robert Kenner and Oprah Winfrey have had to spend considerable money on legal matters related to the way they talked about food. If they are any example, you might want to be care...
California's short-lived legalization of gay marriages was reversed yesterday, when California's Supreme Court affirmed a state ban on gay marriage initiated by Proposition 8 last Novemeber. This week's judgment left same-sex couples like singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and actress Tammy Lynn Mi...
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 28, 2009 (ENS) – The Natural Resources Defense Council has filed a lawsuit in California against pet product retailers and manufacturers for illegally selling pet products containing a known cancer-causing chemical called propoxur without proper warning labels.
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