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January 22 - Lead Found in Women's Handbags (
ABC World News
)
January 19 - Be careful about which trash items should and shouldn't be sent for recycling (
The Washington Post
)
January 4th - 101 Ideas: Turn your bathroom into a 'green' room (
Ventura County Star
)
December 14 - Plasticizer may be tied to boys' breast enlargement (
Reuters
)
November 30 - Plastics chemical phthalate may shorten pregnancy (
Reuters
)
November 5 - Air Quality Is Now an Inside Job (
The NY Times
)
October 28 - The true cost of cheap Christmas presents (
The Guardian Green Living Blog
)
October 1 - Children's diseases linked to chemicals on rise, professor says (
The Journal Sentinel
)
September 26 - Go Green - What are your floor plans? (
Santa Cruz Sentinel
)
September 26 - Man vs. Clamshell: A Lopsided Fight (
The New York Times
)
September 17 - Environmental Group Reveals Toxic Chemicals in a Range of Consumer Items (
The New York Times
)
August 24 - Back to school with less plastic -- a teaching moment (
The LA Times
)
July 2 - The Environmental Toll of Plastics (
Environmental Health News
)
June 27 - It’s Time to Learn From Frogs (
The New York Times
)
June 25 - Chemicals in Shower Curtains and Children's Toys Linked to Underweight Babies (
The Daily Mail
)
June 20 - Canada to Pull Plug on ‘Rubber Duck' Chemicals (
The Globe and Mail
)
June 19 - How Vinyl Flooring is Linked to Autism (
Autism News
)
April 17 - Child Obesity Is Linked to Chemicals in Plastics (
NY Times City Room Blog
)
April 14 - Non-toxic Sand Toys by Green Toys are Eco-Friendly and Fun (
SafBaby.com
)
April 2 - Study suggests PVC linked to autism (
UPI
)
March 23 - ConAgra Switches to Bioplastic Film for Butter, Whipped Cream (
Greener Design
)
March 19 - Proposal to allow PVC pipe in construction delayed (
Philly.com
)
March 11 - EPA To ‘Expedite’ Report On Dioxin Danger (
Michigan Messenger
)
March 4 - Vinyl & Brain Cancer (
Healthy Building News
)
February 12 - New Safety Law Doesn't Mean All's Well In Toyland (
NPR
)
January 24 - EPA a failure on chemicals, audit finds (
The Journal Sentinel
)
January 2 - Phthalate ban in children's products now in force in California (
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
)
December 3 - Safety first for holiday toys (
USA Today
)
December 2 - PVC producer fined $12 million for environmental damage (
Scientific American
)
November 20 - Toys with phthalates can be sold after U.S. ban takes effect (
USA Today
)
October 23 - Del. City plant named in pollution lawsuit (
The News Journal
)
October 23 - Toys Containing Banned Plastics Still on Market (
The Wall Street Journal
)
October 20 - China Drives Plastics Additives Demand (
Chemical Week
)
October 14 - How Green is Apple Now? (
Cnet
)
September 7 - Movement Wants Fewer PVC Office Products (
San Francisco Chronicle
)
August 30 - Beware of Toxins in School Supplies (
St. Cloud Times
)
August 28 - Aftermath of Disaster (
The Suffolk Times
)
August 28 - How Dangerous Is PVC in Toys? We’ve Got The Answers From THE Expert. (
SAF baby
)
August 20 - Colorite Agrees With VCM reduction (
Plastics News
)
August 20 - PVC Plants in China Shut Down (
Bloomberg
)
August 20 - PVC Prices May Rise as China Extends Olympic Closures (
Bloomberg
)
July 28 - Lawmakers Agree to Ban Toxins in Children's Items (
Washington Post
)
July 19 - Solon Wants Sale of Toxic Shower Curtains Banned (
Congress of the Philippines
)
July 15 - Levi’s To Phase Out PVC and Other Chemicals (
Ecotextile News
)
July 12 - Bill Would Ban PVC Packaging (
Ventura County Star
)
July 11 - Coast Guard Wonders Why Air Monitors Did Not Sound (
Associated Press
)
July 9 - Chestertown Factory Agrees to Cleanup (
Baltimore Sun
)
June 13 - That ‘New Shower Curtain Smell’ Gives Off Toxic Chemicals, Study Says (
LA Times
)
June 12 - Shower Curtains Could Mean Curtains For You, Says Watchdog Group (
Daily News
)
June 2 - Lead Leaching And Faucet Corrosion In PVC Home Plumbing (
ScienceDaily
)
May 28 - Lead Exposure in Children Linked to Violent Crime (
LA Times
)
May 22 - Lead-Tainted Lunchboxes Trigger $10 Million Fine (
San Mateo County Times
)
May 20 - Environmental Espionage: Inside a Chemical Company's Louisiana Spy Op (
Mother Jones
)
May 2 - Investors Concerned About ´Toxic´ Plastics (
Plastics News
)
April 21 - Materials: Controversy Brewing Over PVC in Toys (
Machine Design
)
April 10 - DEQ Quizzed On Vinyl Chloride in Water (
The Advocate
)
April 2 - Gregoire Signs Toughest Toy Law In U.S. (
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
)
April 1 - Washington State Debates Strict Bill on Child Products (
The New York Times
)
March 31 - The Role of Exposure to Phthalates from Polyvinyl Chloride Products in the Development of Asthma and Allergies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (
Environmental Health Perspectives
)
March 26 - A Turn to Alternative Chemicals (
The New York Times
)
March 1 - Non-Toxic Tots (
Washington Post
)
February 15 - Toy companies not cooking with vinyl (
NPR Marketplace Radio
)
February 12 - Protests Spur Stores to Seek Substitute for Vinyl in Toys (
The Wall Street Journal
)
December 17 - Georgia Gulf hit with EPA fine (
Atlanta Business Chronicle
)
December 13 - Sears, Kmart to remove products with polyvinyl chloride (
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
)
December 4 - Hazardous or Not, Vinyl Shares Lead's Taint (
The Washington Post
)
November 9 - Target to phase out products with PVC from stores (
Newsday
)
November 8 - Target plants bull’s-eye on PVC in products (
Plastics News
)
November 6 - Target Will Reduce PVC Use (
The Wall Street Journal
)
September 28 - Watchdog group finds lead in toy bought in Framingham (
MetroWest Daily News
)
September 27 - Groups say dangerous toys still on store shelves (
CNN Money.com
)
September 27 - 550,000 More Chinese Toys Recalled for Lead (
NY Times
)
September 21- State finds lead hazard in its free lunch totes (
LA Times
)
September 19 - Can Billboard Trade Go Green? (
Wall Street Journal
)
September 10 - Plastic may not be so fantastic for kids (
LA Times
)
August 22 - Green but stylish choices for back-to-school shopping (
The Seattle Times
)
August 18 - Toys ‘R’ Us Stops Selling Lead-Tainted Bibs (
The New York Times
)
August 15 - Hospitals move to phase out chemical (
USA Today
)
August 14 - Tragedy hits Siberian chemical plant (
IOL
)
August 12 - Gas poisoning: Two more dead, factory owner held (
Express News Service
)
August 5 - Major retailers find good things come from greener packaging (
Star Tribune
)
August 2 - Mattel Recall of Lead-Tainted Chinese Toys Cost $30 Million (
Bloomberg News
)
July 27 - How to Handle Vinyl (
The Green Guide
)
July 16 - High levels of lead in garden hoses (
KATC 3
)
July 5 - Company wants emissions rules relaxed for PVCs (
The Observer
)
June 26 - Wal-Mart Canada suppliers must reduce packaging (
Foodproduction Daily
)
June 21 - When sex toys turn green — for health, that is (
MSNBC.com
)
June 7 - Protesters Jeer Target's Use of PVC (
Flatbush Life
)
June 2 - Toxic avengers target Target (
The Brooklyn Paper
)
May 29 - Fearing a flood of toxins (
The Philadelphia Inquirer
)
May 28 - Protesters Target PVC (
Great Lakes Radio Consortium
)
May 28 - Pop some popcorn for corporate showtime (
St Petersburg Times
)
May 25 - Moms' focus is on toxic toys at Target (
Beacon News
)
May 25 - Target shareholders meet amid protest (
The Plain Dealer
)
May 25 - Mothers protest Target's toxic toys (
The Naperville Sun
)
May 25 - Local consumers protest Target's use of PVC (
The Pantagraph
)
May 25 - Aiming at Target (
The Downtown Journal
)
May 25 - Target Urged to Stop Selling Products Containing PVC Plastic (
WCPN Radio
)
May 24 - Target: No Political Donation Disclosure (
Forbes
)
May 24 - Children protest PVC in Normal - (
WJBC AM 1230
)
May 24 - Target: No Political Donation Disclosure (
AOL Money and Finance
)
May 24 - Shareholders Push Hasbro to Drop Toxics from Toys (
Greenbiz.com
)
May 24 - Target: No Political Donation Disclosure (
MSN Money
)
May 24 - Target shareholders reject disclosure of political contributions (
Star Tribune
)
May 24 - Target: no political donation disclosure (
CNN Money.com
)
May 24 - Target shareholders urge eco progress Home Textiles (
Home Textiles
)
May 24 - Target: no political donation disclosure (
Business Week
)
May 24 - Target hosts investors at new store - Protesters expected, too, against PVC products (
The Plain Dealer
)
May 19 - PVC Pressure (
The Mercury News
)
May 4 - Grandma gets lead out of baby bibs (
The Daily Herald
)
May 3 - Apple pledges to be greener (
The Guardian
)
April 29 - Local group: Remove polluted lagoon sludge (
The Mercury
)
April 27 - Shintech to pay environmental penalty (
The Advocate
)
April 14 - Corona-Norco Schools hold breath, await tests on buildings (
The Press Enterprise
)
March 29 - It's easy being green: Google goes solar (
Ars Technica
)
March 15 - Common Plastic Chemicals Linked to Obesity (
CBC News
)
March 6 - Worker error caused fatal chemical plant explosion (
Associated Press
)
March 1 - Plastics Unwrapped (
Body+Soul magazine
)
February 18 - How Gov't Decided Lunch Box Lead Levels (
Washington Post
)
February 7 - Poison Plastic? (
CBS 4
)
January 30 - Apple Computers: Fun for You, Toxic for the Environment (
Alternet
)
January 18 - Fixit: A whiff of vinyl (
Minneapolis Star Tribune
)
December 12 - Environment and safety concerns hinder future of PVC packaging films (
plastics.2456.com
)
December 3 - What's Toxic In Toyland (
Time
)
November 19 - TOXIC TOYS (
San Francisco Chronicle
)
November 15 - About the air in there (
Los Angeles Times
)
October 12 - Sam Suds in the Blogosphere
November 2 - Retailer plans supplier green rating (
Arkansas Democrat - Gazette
)
October 19 - Protest puts Target in crosshairs (
The Trumbull Times
)
October 19 - Target Taken To Task for PVC (
E Magazine
)
October 18 - Protesters ‘Target’ department stores that carry PVC products (
Montgomery County Gazette
)
October 12 - Protesters Picket Target for Sale of Products Made with PVC (
WBFO
)
October 12 - Target stores' PVC use challenged (
Connecticut Post Online
)
October 12 - CCFEJ protests Target's use of PVCs (
The New Britain Herald
)
October 11 - The 'Poison Plastic' Retailers Won't Talk About (
AlterNet
)
October 12 - Listen to Radio Coverage of the PVC Day of Action!
October 11 - Remove Products Containing PVC's (
www.whcu870.com
)
October 11 - Protestors rally against PVC at Colonie Target store (
The Business Review (Albany)
)
October 11 - Group targets Target over PVC use (
The Ithaca Journal
)
October 11 - Health groups protest sale of PVC products at Target (
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
)
October 10 - Ecostretch friendly for environment, consumers (
Monticello Herald Journal
)
October 9 - Saugus SAVE will join National protest Wednesday (
Saugus Advertiser
)
October 7 - Survey measures gifts that keep being given (
Mercury News
)
October 6 - Environmental group targets PVC at Target (
Plastics News
)
October 5 - Poor, Black and Dumped On (
The New York Times
)
October 1 - The Chemicals within Us (
National Geographic
)
September 13 - EPA calls for Keysor site cleanup (
LA Daily News
)
August 25 - Demand booming for NatureWorks polylactide (
Plastics News
)
August 6 - Library toys tainted with lead (
The Orange County Register
)
July 24 - FDA Demands Lead-Free Lunchboxes (
washingtonpost.com
)
July 20 - Agency urges improved safety practices at South Texas plant (
Associated Press
)
July 14 - EPA Cites Dow Chemical for Emissions (
The Associated Press
)
July 14 - Delays over Dioxin (
Living on Earth
)
June 28 - For fresher air, find alternatives to vinyl walls (
San Francisco Chronicle
)
June 27 - Study Offers 'Best Practices' For Adopting Green Chemistry Strategies (
Inside Green Business
)
June 26 - Your Finest Shower - On Shower Curtains (
Grist Magazine
)
June 9 - Minamata Mercury Victims, 50 Years Later, Step Up Legal Fight (
Bloomberg
)
June 7 - Board bans chemicals that may harm infants (
San Francisco Chronicle
)
June 3 - Supervisors to consider ban of certain plastics (
San Francisco Chronicle
)
May 26 - Bioplastic becoming a real competitor (Marketplace)
May 11 - Milliken Floor Covering Makes Strides Against PVC - (
Interior Design
)
May 8 - Crib notes for parents (
LA Daily News
)
May 4 - Shareholder Network Launched to Curtail Toxics in Products (GreenBiz.com)
April 28 - Packaging Goes Green (
Beauty Packaging Magazine
)
April 19 - Intravenous Bags, Tubes Redesigned for Safety (
The Wall Street Journal
)
April 12 - Risks of plastic piping reviewed (
The Press-Enterprise
)
April 3 - Green chemistry for California (
San Francisco Chronicle
)
March 27 - Products can be exposure source, but there are things you can do
March 23 - Child's Death Prompts Jewelry Recall
March 14 - Greening of State's Chemicals Suggested
March 6 - 'Green' chemists swap oil for renewable alternatives
March 5 - How to Build a Low-PVC, Reduced-Plastic, Polar-Bear-Sensitive House
March 1 - Potato Plastic
February 23 - Corn Cards offer a greener alternative, but is the industry ready
February 19 - Worker Injured In Chemical Leak Dies At University Hospital
February 16 - The battle rages over use of PVC clamshells
February 15 - Reading gas leak injures eight
February 13 - The deadly toll
February 06 - New Car Smell: It's Not So Sweet
January 30 - OxyChem proposes dumping well water
January 16 - Effects of Deadly Train Crash Still Rumble Through Town
January 11 - Scientists Debate Bill to Restrict Chemicals
January 09 - Parents needn't wait for legislation to shield kids from toxins in products
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