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  Buy the plainest Neutrogena

  I had a girlfriend years ago with extremely sensitive skin... any perfumes or additives really irritated her.

  After trying many creams and lotions, she found that a big jug of the plainest unscented Neutrogena lotion did the trick. And it wasn't expensive.

  But I'm not sure they still market this in the large, plain packaging they used to. I suspect it may have cut into their profits -- the smaller tubes and speciality items have a much higher profit margin.On A review of six hand and body lotions posted 1 year, 10 months ago 16 Responses

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  The true face of Dingell

  In the 1990s, the Clinton-era EPA was investigating a large coal-burning cement plant owned by Holnam (now Holcim) in Dundee, Michigan.

  EPA found that the plant had been exceeding its permitted levels of sulfur dioxide emissions by 700% -- for over 17 years.

  So what did Dingell do? He wrote letters to EPA demanding that the agency go easy on Holnam.

  SO2 is a major greenhouse gas. No one who truly cares about his constituents' (or planet's) health would behave that way. But Holnam was a big supporter of Dingell.

  In the end, the plant was fined over $500,000. That may sound like a lot, but if you amortize it over two decades, and consider how much extra profit this highly-profitable plant made over that period, it was like you or me getting a parking ticket.
  

  Animals are my friends. And I don't eat my friends. -- George Bernard Shaw

  On Even though conventional wisdom says you need him to pass major environmental legislation posted 2 years, 2 months ago 2 Responses

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  Hmmm.

  I have serious doubts about Clinton's environmental "cred." I'll cite just two examples of why:

  1. She was on the board of a notorious polluter, the Lafarge cement company, which burned during her tenure (and continues to burn) major quantities of coal and hazardous waste in their kilns.

  2. On a more personal level, I was involved with a successful six-and-a-half-year fight against a proposal which, at the time, would have been the largest coal-fired cement plant in the country. Clinton was my Senator. I met with her face-to-face, thanks to someone to whom she owed a big favor, in Washington. She assured me personally that she was on our side against the polluter, and that she would help. She could have made a big difference to thousands of people fighting the good fight. But she never came through... However, after we won, she claimed to have been fighting with us all along.

  This was sadly what I'd always heard about Hillary Clinton, but I didn't believe it until it happened to me personally.

  See my Grist interview for more info on the fight referenced in #2.

  --Sam PrattOn A look at Hillary Clinton's environmental platform and record posted 2 years, 3 months ago 7 Responses

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  Cardinal sin of book reviewing

  As someone who in the 90s reviewed books a lot of print and web publications (before ditching it all for activism), I have to say this:

  Book reviewers have an obligation to read the whole book. Period.

  Even when the book stinks from page 1, you've got to finish it -- or don't review it.

  It's not only the only ethical way to review books; it is also the only way to avoid making glaring mistakes like the one made here (mistaking Monbiot's position on certain issues by only reading a few indexed passages).

  I expect more from Grist!

  Animals are my friends. And I don't eat my friends. -- George Bernard Shaw

  On Skip it posted 2 years, 3 months ago 18 Responses

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  Just 29 words

  Breathing clean air and swimming in clear streams. Protecting national forests and enjoying local parks. Creating better jobs and planning ahead. Stopping polluters and living more sustainably. That's environmentalism.

  Animals are my friends. And I don't eat my friends. -- George Bernard Shaw

  On An elevator pitch for environmentalism posted 4 years, 9 months ago 154 Responses