Saturday, April 11, 2009

Cleaning Products Coming Clean - What Really Is In Windex?

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Sure, we all know what is in Windex. Right? Isopropanol, 2-Butoxyethanol, Ethylene glycol n-hexyl ether, Water, and Ammonia. Well, now y...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Chemical Control Reform - Kids Safe Out...ChAMP In?

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As discussed here previously, the US is taking a hard look at its 30+ year old chemical control law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA...
Monday, April 6, 2009

Ten Replies...Advocacy vs Science (From Helicity)

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I came across a very interesting blog called Helicity that was replying to the replies of a climate change skeptic (to his earlier post). ...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

European Trade Union Lists 306 "Substances of Very High Concern" - Will this Blacklist Safe Chemicals?

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The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), based in Brussels, published a " Trade Union Priority List for Reach Authorisation ,...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

New NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco Says Science is Her Top Priority

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Dr. Jane Lubchenco took over the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on March 22, 2009. A day later she did a join...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

USEPA Offers "Strategic Plan" for Evaluating the Toxicity of Chemicals

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This week the USEPA released a " Strategic Plan for Evaluating the Toxicity of Chemicals ," which departs from "the tradition...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Scientists as political activists?

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I mentioned previously the climate change conference held in Copenhagen , which was designed to stimulate some activism on the part of scien...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Global Warming Denialists Turning on Themselves as Their Climate Change Titanic Sinks

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I did a post a while back about a " Climate Skeptics Conference " held in New York City. According to Andrew Revkin, writing in t...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Holdren and Lubchenco Are Confirmed - And So is Obama's Commitment to Climate Change

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On Thursday the Senate unanimously confirmed Jane Lubchenco to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and John Holdren to ...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Dueling Databases - Industry to Publish Global Chemicals Database

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Data are power! I've said this before, and despite being a bit cumbersome as a phrase, it does highlight a growing trend. About a mont...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Climate Change and a Novel Water Quality Case Could Have Major Impact on Decision-Making

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Most of the time climate change issues don't enter into how Environmental Protection Agencies set nutrient limits in water bodies. That...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Better Scientific Understanding = Better Policy Decisions

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An underlying theme of this page is how science meets policy. In a recent commentary , UK scientist and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director o...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Global Warming Denialists - The Art of Deception

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Global warming denialists are carrying on an ideologically motivated campaign to discredit real climate science. And they are doing so by w...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Climate Scientists in Copenhagen Issue Key Messages

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As I noted two days ago , the University of Copenhagen this past week hosted an international scientific congress on climate change under th...