UM…wow. If this is true, I don’t even know what to say – but I wanted to share this article with you guys this morning. Take a look and let me know what you think. Oh, and if you don’t know what it is, here is a good explanation of what BPA is and why [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What were the environmental impacts of the huge coal ash spill in Tennessee this past December? Environmentalists”™ call for an end to the age of coal””one of the dirtiest and most common of all the fossil fuels we now use””took on new urgency this past December when some 525 million gallons of wet [...]
China is now pulling Johnson & Johnson products off their shelves…yet the United States isn’t. Does anyone else find that a tad bit strange? What’s the reason, you ask? Well, 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde have been discovered in Johnson & Johnson baby products. The Environmental Working Group case study of Johnson’s Baby Shampoo found formaldehyde at [...]
What is propylene glycol? It is is a chemical found in personal care products that acts as a penetration enhancer that keeps products from melting in heat and/or freezing when it is cold. It is found in items such as shampoo, conditioner, soap, acne treatment, moisturizer, toothpaste, deodorant, nail polish, mascara; basically anything you could [...]
Documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG) show that officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are pressing to reverse the agency’s current recommendations that pregnant women and children limit their seafood consumption due to risks of exposure to mercury an extremely harmful neurotoxin found at high levels in a number of popular seafood [...]
