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Industry associations state their desire to "ensure that existing FDA regulatory oversight is enhanced." Advocate groups for safer cosmetics have started a full push to get the public support for cosmetic safety reform.

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Let me start out by saying there are a lot of good people in the chemicals industry and in the cosmetics industry.

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Whether they have heard our cries for cleaner perfume, or not, executives and leaders from the world of fragrance believe that

We reprise some of our favorite July 4th posts:

Obligatory Post About Green Fireworks for the 4th of July
Fireworks are fun - who doesn't like explosions? - and a good excuse to get together with family and friends, but they're also not very clean.

That's the tongue-in-cheek image we used when the General Services Administration put the FEMA formaldehyde tainted trailers up for sale. We wondered "who would think of buying them and what they could possibly doing with them."

Now we know; they are reselling them and using them to house workers cleaning up the spill.

Four years or so after their manufacture, one would think that much of that formaldehyde had o

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Is the same cologne that's turning you on damaging your sperm?

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With all the news and talk about the Gulf oil spill during the past two weeks, we've (unsurprisingly) been talking a lot about the science behind oil and oil production, the future of energy, and the economics behind the wh

As a writer about green design, I hold some opinions that consistently attract tremendous disagreement and abuse; two are heat pumps and insulated concrete forms (ICF) noting that a sandwich of polystyrene and concrete can hardly be called green.

Products containing Triclosan

Four years ago, John wrote There's A Frog Disruptor In My Soap, noting that "Triclosan, widely used in soaps and toothpastes for its ability to kill bacteria, has been found to hasten the transformation of tadpoles into adult frogs." A year ago we wrote about a petition

Cochineal dye vat.