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 Stories About: Environmental Working Group AND toxics AND US EPA
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Like Spite on Rice
Scientist with concerns about chemical removed from EPA panel |
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29 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:52 PM on 29 Feb 2008 An award-winning toxicologist was removed from a U.S. EPA panel reviewing the potential health dangers of deca, a flame retardant widely used in electronics, after the American Chemistry Council claimed she was biased. Deborah Rice had testified for the Maine legislature in support of a state ban on deca; EPA officials cited "the perception of a potential conflict of interest&q ... |
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| Topics: Environmental Working Group, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Asbestos Times, the Worst of Times
U.S. Faces Coming Asbestos Health Crisis, Group Says |
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04 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Asbestos Times, the Worst of Times U.S. Faces Coming Asbestos Health Crisis, Group Says Despite the common public perception that asbestos went out with bell bottoms and disco, the fact is that asbestos -- like, uh, bell bottoms and disco -- is still with us. In fact, claims a report released today by the Environmental Working Group, we are poised to enter an asbestos-related public-health crisis: An estimated 1 ... |
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| Topics: Environmental Working Group, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Absolut Advertising
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Ben White |
28 Jul 1999 |
Muckraker |
| If you are like us (and we bet you are) you were sipping your coffee and peacefully perusing your New York Times Tuesday morning when POW! you were smacked upside the head by a clever full-page ad from the Environmental Working Group previewing its release of a study on the effects of the herbicide atrazine. The ad, mimicking the long-running Absolut Vodka campaign, pictures a baby bottle with an atrazine-warning label. The caption reads, "Absolu ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Environmental Working Group, health, Muckraker, national forests, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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